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Strolling behind the butts sounds a bit iffy to us, though the Agency, who are inviting comments on the new draft maps, do list it as a danger zone. A walk on the wild side more like it.insidelines independent.co.ukExit LinesI haven't got big ears, I've just got a very small head Gary Lineker .. Not a chance in hell. Decathlete Dean Macey when asked if he would contemplate a drinking session 36 hours before an event.. Those feelings have been omnipresent since the day I joined. Aston Villa manager John Gregory on whether he thinks his job is threatened.. He's just signed his own death warrant. Unfortunate reaction of American Charles Brewer to taunts from world champion Joe Calzaghe before their fight was postponed.. He doth bestride the world like a Colossus. Darts commentator Sid Waddell on world champion Phil Taylor..

It's good to be back But it's strange This is a new team with new players It is a team for the future. Looking round at the young faces of England's one-day squad I know that I am nearer the end than the beginning You begin to wonder where and when it will all end for you These are young men who cannot wait for it to start It's good to be back But it's strange This is a new team with new players It is a team for the future. These are young men who cannot wait for it to start. The next 14 months, as Nasser Hussain has said, are immense for England cricketers. They could be the most significant of my career, taking in, all being well, an Ashes series and a World Cup all but back to back. It doesn't come tougher, or more inviting.All being well, of course, because I am not guaranteed a place in the side.Never was, naturally, but at least I was in it Somebody had to take my place. Since last summer I have been out of it, having missed the one-day tour to Zimbabwe while the selectors gave fresh players a chance, and the first leg of this tour of India for security reasons.When I made the decision not to come here with the Test squad last November it was the hardest and most important of my life You may be wondering by now what I am doing here I never expected to be.

But I was told that the security risk had diminished and the nature of the war in Afghanistan had changed. It is not lost on me that India and Pakistan are now at loggerheads We await the outcome of that. But I am out here now.There were moments during the Test series when I had some regrets I cannot lie about that But they were only fleeting ones. When England took the field I wanted to be out there with them, but then I would dwell on why I had pulled out The family, as I said then and say now, came first They were desperately concerned. It all turned out all right, but I was never sure that it would.The rest has actually re-enthused me, if I can put it like that Rests do that for fast bowlers.

But equally there were moments when I projected into the future and retirement.For now I have the little problem of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly to worry about. I am working on the basis that I will be back in the side, although it is not a stone-cold certainty. It has been said that there cannot be room for Darren Gough, Matthew Hoggard and myself in the same side, so a ticklish selectorial decision awaits. I can offer what I have offered before in one-day internationals: control. That is, the ability to keep an end quiet and perhaps pick up a wicket or two I can only trust it is enough.But a word for Hoggard What a bowler he is becoming It is good that there is competition for places.

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