Quotes About Cricket

Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.

On Edens Gardens pitch, nobody bowls well.

When you are playing Under-17 or U-19, the captain is of the same age as the rest of us. His knowledge was also as limited as the other players, so there was greater responsibility on the bowlers to understand themselves and their bowling, read the pitch, and set fields accordingly.

If you don't have bounce on the pitch, even a spinner cannot come handy.

Within the changing room, everyone has always known I'm best when I pitch the ball up and get a little bit of movement.

Marcus Trescothick. No question. I hate bowling to him. I pitch it up, he drives me through the covers. I bowl back of a length, he runs me down to third-man. I go short, and he lifts me over the keeper or pulls me for four.

People say that because I'm short I get a lot more skid off the pitch.

What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.

Rishabh Pant whenever he has got away from Delhi on good pitches, hard pitches where there is carry, he has been exceptional with the bat.

When I went to Australia on the India A tour in 2014, I played on flat pitches against batsmen, some of whom were Test players. That experience taught me a lot, as I also was playing with a lot of Test players in our side as well, and I learned about being mentally tough.

English conditions have changed over the years. Lots of runs are being scored in one-day cricket now in England, pitches are good for batting.

In India you pick teams based on pitches, so it's the bowlers who get changed. if it is a turning pitch a fast bowler can't play, and if it is a green pitch, a spinner can't play.

If the batsman is playing good shots, you accept it, but it is important that we bowl according to what the plan is and not go off it.

A lot of the things we do in Test cricket revolves around planning for the Ashes series down under.

The game in T20 cricket moves so fast and guys are always putting you under pressure - you can have plans for the likes of Chris Lynn and Glenn Maxwell and try to execute them but they can then do the exact opposite of what you expect, especially Maxwell.

Amit Mishra has got that experience. He has played 10-12 years of international cricket. Whenever he bowls those four overs, he knows exactly what his plans are. He has bowled to almost every player, and he knows where to bowl to them.

My senior school didn't play football. It was a rugby and cricket school, and as I was on a sports scholarship, I was forced to play rugby.

I was brought up to always see the glass half full instead of half empty and played my cricket that way.

I have played incredible knocks with the lightest of bats.

Tendulkar has had the greatest cricket career of anyone who has ever played the game.

Nasser Hussain was skipper when I first played for England and a massive influence. He showed me a lot of faith.

Losing the Ashes was intense and emotional. My personal lack of results and contribution through that series played havoc in my mind.

Outside cricket, I idolise Roger Federer and in the gentleman's game, I look up to Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. Not only were they great players, but the way they conducted themselves off the field evoked respect.

I think the more common players who have been around for a while - Joe Root, Alastair Cook, Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad - those guys I know of, they're fantastic players.