Gillespie ... was asked to go back to domestic cricket and find some form.

He's tactically very smart between his ears and he has been the most consistent seam bowler in Australia for three years.

It's bad enough when you have got such a terrible affliction once. It's doubly bad when it comes around twice and three times is too bad to think about.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

There's something about blue eyes.

The kind of blue that startles you every time they're lifted in your direction. The kind of blue that makes you ache for them to look at you again. Not the blue green or blue gray, the blue that's just blue.

Cricket has those eyes.

It's probably the most nerve-racking end to a test match I've played in ... (maybe) any game of cricket I've ever played - tied World Cup semi-finals included.