Jonathan Agnew

For Jonathan Agnew, humour is an essential ingredient to cricket commentary. If you can spice it up with a bit of innuendo, even better. And if you can make it look innocent, perfect!

BBC secured exclusive radio rights for all international matches in India for the next four years.

In a bid to pose competition to the IPL, England may "effectively abolish" its traditional county cricket structure and stage a 50 million pound Twenty20 tournament from June 2010.

Australia's Test captain Pat Cummins criticised Code Cricket for misquoting him on India's Champions Trophy matches. Cummins clarified that he never called the tournament a 'farce,' comments actually made by Jonathan Agnew. Cummins acknowledged India's advantage playing entirely in Dubai.

The review was ordered as criticism grew of the winner-takes-all series over poor pitches, sub-standard matches, faulty lighting and the behaviour of Allen Stanford.

Earthly embodiment of fictional boy wizard Harry Potter confessed that he had to queue (like everyone else) for an autograph from the Indian batting sensation.

A few days before the match, Adam Mountford, producer of BBC's Test Match Special (TMS) programme, and his crew including legendary cricketer Geoffrey Boycott had their own doubts about the conduct of the Test.

McGrath feels Arthur's allegations of having to deal with a divided team are "pretty poor" and show that he is "not too concerned" about the side he mentored.

Sri Lanka's debut at Lord's in 1984 saw Sidath Wettimuny score an impressive 190. The match, interrupted briefly by Tamil demonstrators, featured strong performances from Duleep Mendis and young Arjuna Ranatunga. England's Jonathan Agnew noted the team was fatigued from previous matches but lauded Sri Lanka's spirited play that drew attention globally.

The hair is dishevelled, beard unkempt and shirt untucked. The old man, with a white stick, walks up to the designated stand, keeps his bag down, and quietly takes his seat. A young volunteer walks up to him with a cup of coffee.

England's hyper-attacking "Bazball" approach is coming under intense scrutiny after a crushing Test defeat in India but neither captain Ben Stokes and nor coach Brendon McCullum appear to be in the mood to change their gung-ho approach as the fourth Test in Ranchi looms.

On a pitch where batsmen were spooked by spinners every ball, and a wicket was falling every other minute, Rohit Sharma cracked 66 in the first innings, out of India's puny total of 145, and then finished off the match in style with his signature shot - dancing down the wicket and smashing the ball to deep mid-wicket - off England captain Joe Root, who had taken five for eight in the first innings.

Bruce French, England's former gloveman and who was an understudy to Paul Downton, did not play any Test on that 1984 tour but made his ODI debut. Perhaps he learned surfing on the go and saved two girls from drowning in a beach in Chennai.