Quotes About Cricket

I don't think there is a need to treat matches with India like a matter of life and death. We need to take cricket as cricket.

Guys are playing a lot of limited overs cricket and not making that adjustment when it comes to the longer version and pay a price for that.

The captaincy thing is brilliant, and I love it. But I didn't start off playing cricket to captain England. I wanted to score runs and stuff.

I totally enjoyed playing in Australia. I think they play very tough cricket, and the brand of cricket they play is very strong.

I love to play Test cricket; it's the main cricket.

When you're a kid, you dream about playing cricket for a living, playing for your county and then your country.

To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.

Nobody wants to really play bad cricket.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.

You need different skills to do well in 50-overs cricket. You need completely different skills to do well in Test cricket. You need different skills to do well in T20 cricket. It is not the same.

When you start the game, coaches will tell you to do stuff in a particular way, and kids do that. But the moment you start first-class cricket, the coach needs to tell you, 'Try this, try that,' instead of, 'Do this, do that.' If you feel comfortable, you can take it; otherwise, leave it.

I enjoyed playing any type of cricket. Didn't matter what type it was because I did not want to change my game. My game was built on one type of cricket: if there was a ball to hit, you hit it, whether it was Test matches, whatever it was.

I looked up to cricket players such as Imran Khan.

For too long now, cricket has got all the attention and money. Look at how much financial help cricket gets from the sports federations.

I seldom watch TV, but I often get caught up in cricket no matter what time they are on.

I know, in India, cricket is a religion, but I haven't had the time to follow it.

When I don't play international cricket, I sharpen my skills at the NCA.

I play cricket with passion. I just want to win games for the country.

Growing up in Rochdale, I think, all the kids in my street, pretty much every boy was playing cricket. I had four brothers as well, and we played a lot together. When it was just me on my own, I was bowling at a drainpipe.

As I played a lot of tennis ball cricket, I used to watch Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis a lot.