Quotes About Cricket

At 15, I was a tape-ball 'professional' and would take ten rupees per game to win matches for different teams.

I want to play 100 Test matches for England.

When you play good competitive cricket and win matches for your team, you always feel happy.

I am working towards it, and it is a dream to play Test matches for India.

I have not played that many matches for India, but whenever I play in Bengaluru, I feel it is like my home. I have taken wickets here.

Getting 20 wickets in test cricket will win you matches and that will be the focus.

I was great mates with Muttiah Muralitharan, dating back to the days when we both played together at Lancashire.

We need to understand that the revenue which we get is through men's cricket.

I agree the Kookaburra ball takes a longer time to reverse than the SG.

I've played with and against great players. I've been with Viv Richards, Richie Richardson and played against Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Jaque Kallis and Virat Kohli is up there with the very best.

My role is to play out the full overs.

My first game was against India and while my roots will always be Indian I was born in England and wanted to represent them.

Growing up in the '70s my heroes were Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards and Roy Fredericks as a left-hand batsman.

Playing for Rajasthan Royals in IPL made me believe in my abilities.

If I get runs in an entertaining fashion, then great. I like to get on top of bowlers and be aggressive. I don't want to be dominated by them. Hopefully people enjoy the way I play.

We won't necessarily sledge so much but we do have that attitude of 'They're not going to score the runs, we're going to take the wickets.'

I just go out there and try to do what I am paid to do, which is score runs and take wickets.

I have made runs in domestic cricket, in First-Class cricket.

It doesn't matter whether you move your feet or not; if your head is still and body is in balance, you can score lots of runs. This I learned from Tendulkar.

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

If I get wickets owing to mistakes of batsmen, I am not satisfied from the inside.

Nobody can bowl six out of six yorkers. So you have to mix your pace. You have to bowl bouncers, mix up the pace.

I try to mix my pace and try to use yorkers.