Quotes About Cricket

I have no real desire to play Test cricket, and the reason I lost this desire was because I was not selected consistently for Test matches.

The best players of the world play in the IPL, and to bowl to them in T20 cricket isn't easy.

Once you start feeling the pressure, you start to struggle. That is the beauty of Indo-Pak cricket contests.

I wanted to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. But I could not.

In very few countries I enjoyed cricket more than I did in India. I would always remember the love my team and I got from the fans here.

I have never run after the captaincy in my entire career. It is something for the cricket board to decide.

My father, who has played a bit of cricket, comes to Chepauk to watch every game I play.

Growing up, my education about Test cricket came from dad's video of the 1981 Ashes series - and Ian Botham's incredible match at Headingley.

The media attention does not bother me. I am very happy that the media is at least interested in sports other than cricket.

If you are good enough to play international cricket, you can take wickets - but you have to bowl the right length.

The Australian approach to playing cricket in general is quite an aggressive one.

In the cricket world, with a lot of little issues that people are getting in a tizz around, I'm just like: Don't worry about it.

When I came back into the side in 2009 I had to play more aggressively, and did. But I should never have played 127 times for England in one day cricket.

I really believe that every game of international cricket should have some sort of meaning and some sort of context to it - so the World Test Championship, the World One-Day League are all really, really important opportunities to the game.

I think Andrew Strauss never gets enough credit for what he's done for English cricket.

I've played cricket seriously since I was eight years old, when I first played for the Essex under-11s. I can't just turn it off.

I like to take wickets and see wickets and chances and I think in T20 cricket you have to risk a boundary to take a wicket.

Ultimately we're playing cricket and we want guys who will score runs and take catches to help England win.

I'm aware how special an achievement 100 caps is because of the players that have come before me and the amount they've given to English cricket.

It is certainly not how I've been brought up and it's not in my blood to play cricket in that safety-first way.

It's very important in international cricket to be able to hold a bat, not just hold up an end, but have the ability to score runs.

You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a person. You just don't know. I might not even be playing cricket.

Not many people know this about me, but my first passion in life was cricket.

I've always had an interest in the media, I love cricket, so why wouldn't I want to be around it?