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The answers to who said what in Lawrence Booth's What are the Butchers For? are as follows:
1 -- Ashley Giles, the England spin bowler, in response to Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld likening his run-up to a man pushing a wheelie bin, although the originator of the description was actually David Hopps in the Guardian newspaper; 2 -- Robin Williams, the comedian and movie actor; 3 -- Rachael Flintoff, reminded by her husband that he was a real person, not a cartoon character; 4 -- Andrew himself -- or maybe Freddie -- on being asked how he was by Channel Four cricket presenter Mark Nicholas the morning after the 2005 Ashes victory; 5 -- Groucho Marx, American comic legend, when asked what he thought about his first cricket match; 6 -- Monty Panesar, asked what he would do with the $1 million dollars being offered to England players by Texan tycoon Sir Allen Stanford for winning one Twenty20 match; 7 -- A note strategically placed by a cheeky journalist (actually, the Press Association's Richard Gibson) on the table at which Panesar, not known for original thought when faced with cameras an microphones, was about to deliver a press conference; 8 -- Rafa Benitez, the Liverpool football manager, in 2005, on being introduced to Test cricket.
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