Phil Tufnell Quotations

Phil was asked if he preferred grass to Astroturf. He replied that he had never smoked Astroturf.

After 12 years of pain and defeat at the hands of the Aussies as a player and hearing various wisecracks and jokes at my teammates' expense, I felt it was time to give the Aussies back some of their own medicine.

Pakistan and India are very difficult places to tour, but they will take spin and you need someone with experience.

Shaun would admit himself that he was a little surprised but it might be a shrewd pick,

You can't smoke 20 a day and bowl fast.

I've got no sympathies for that man. Every time the ball came to me at Melbourne or Sydney I used to be petrified ... it was a case of get it in your hands or get it away, otherwise the flack you got was awful.

Sport Relief money does a lot of amazing work in India and it's great that the England boys have been able to come along and see it.

Wicket-keepers have got to be able to score Test match hundreds - it's as simple as that.