Jonathan Agnew Quotes

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.

The Oval 2018 was one of the most extraordinary Tests I've been involved with.

Tests with India always produce some great finishes.

You know in a playoff atmosphere anything can happen.

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile races draw such crowds. People expect spectacular crashes, which we tend to find more interesting than cars just racing around the track. The same is true of bridges, buildings, or any structure or machine.

You always wonder if you can make plays at the end.

I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald.

We have to understand that the five-day format has its own uncertainties, unlike ODIs or T20s. In ODIs, you know that you have to field for 50 overs only, while in Test cricket, there may be a situation that a team might bat for one-and-a-half to two days.

It is easy to get carried away in this Twenty20 era and think Test cricket has to be entertaining all the time.

Trent Bridge, 2013, is my favourite Test. An Ashes opener and England won a thriller by 14 runs. I managed to take ten wickets, which helps.

That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.

Every game in this league is close, and it's going to come down to making plays at the end.

As a youngster, I really enjoyed watching cricket.

It was Test cricket as it should be played, when the irresistible force in Allan Donald met the immovable object in Mike Atherton at Trent Bridge in 1998. And I was happy to watch from the best seat in the house - at the other end.

Call me traditional, but Test cricket is the most important thing.

I was part of the Australia team that lost the first Test at Edgbaston in 1997 and yet came back to win the series quite comfortably in the end.

Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen.

That is one of the great things about Test cricket, the ball. Sometimes it swings conventionally, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it reverses.

Anything can happen. That's why sports are so great, the unexpected.

Football is a sport where you never know what is going to happen between one match and the next.

Anything can happen in a cup final; that's what everybody likes about them.

We don't cover too many draws in Test cricket and its great: it means the cricket is more interesting, more exciting.

That unpredictable game here in England, that makes it so fascinating for the fans, because you never know what will happen.