Quotes About Cricket

IPL is something... it's where we polish our skills and be in form, but ODI and T20I are totally different.

In Pakistan, if you have to become a cricketer you have to be a politician first.

If a politician is a successful administrator, certainly he has got every right to administer cricket.

International cricket and Test cricket in particular is hard and you are going to get injuries but, if you've got a strong pool of players to pick from who can all come in and do a job, well that can only be a good thing for English cricket.

I know hockey is not as popular as cricket in India, but I hope in future, every renowned hockey player should be given a fitting farewell rather than ignoring them.

You need to be flexible but I feel I can bat at any position depending on the condition.

I go out in the middle with a positive frame of mind and the intention of playing out the entire overs and making full use of the available opportunities.

I know that fitness helps me to be better at everything I do and to live my life in the best possible way, so it has become a genuine passion, even outside of cricket.

In fact, I prefer flat wickets, for it gives our batsmen a chance to post big totals.

I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.

Lasith Malinga has been a great influence for me to bowl yorkers consistently.

You see teams buy a lot of batsmen for a lot of money because they are good batsmen. But you also need good bowlers to get them out or contain the runs.

I never look to contain. I always try and take wickets.

I've always been one to want a fair contest between bat and ball even as a batter, so if that's taken away I don't think that's great.

About wicket-keeping, I have enjoyed whatever little bit I could do and contribute for RCB.

My main strength is my bowling, but where I bat, I can also contribute for the team, and that is important.

Running-between-the-wickets is the ability to convert ones into twos, twos into threes, and threes into fours. And to reach the wickets on time.

I never thought I'd be a senior player in a county side, let alone the England side. When you break into a county side, that is your aim, so it's an incredible feeling to have achieved that with England.

I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all to play for England, that's for sure.

We learnt a lot from county cricket - even if we did not earn stacks of money from it.

The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.

West Indian cricket means so much to people who live here. And when we're not doing well, we all feel it.

I think most cricket fans would accept that Dravid and Tendulkar are very different individuals but they are both great players.

I love cricket but I like being away from it as well.