Michael Atherton quotes:

The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?

Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.

Concentration is sometimes mistaken for grumpiness.

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions