In the light of the recent on-air gaffe from Dean Jones in calling Hashim Amla “The Terrorist”, Andrew Miller has pieced together some of more intriguing or perplexing comments we’ve heard over the years.

Beyond the odd, there’s the amusing:

The most giggled-about quip in the history of the game, but was it ever really uttered? It is widely believed that, sometime during either the 1976 or 1980 Test series one of the few batsmen to avoid being dismissed by Holding during his 14-wicket rampage in 1976, while four years later Willey himself was named Man of the Match for his unbeaten against West Indies, either Don Mosey or Brian Johnston announced live on air: “We welcome World Service listeners to the Oval, where the bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey.” No recording, however, is believed to exist, so no-one will ever know for sure. Either way, the likely suspect was Johnston, who a decade later was on the receiving end of Jonathan Agnew’s leg-over pronunciation at the same venue. For the record, Willey was second-innings century. So they certainly both played their parts in Oval Test matches. Whether they … ahem … played each other’s parts is another matter entirely.

Here’s Cricinfo’s other occaisions when the off-the-cuff comments have taken on a life of their own.