Quotes About Cricket

In one-day cricket, two-three overs can make a difference, if you concede extra runs or cannot score enough in that period.

I've faced a lot of short pitched bowling in my life and haven't had too many issues with it.

I was scared of facing only one bowler - that was Muttiah Muralitharan.

Pressure is the biggest single factor in Test cricket.

Test cricket is still important, so are ODIs, but T20 should be there too because of the crowd factor.

In England, if one wicket falls, you get two or three in a cluster.

In international cricket, the core group in most of the teams would remain same. So you know what's expected, but they will operate in different conditions, which is why the homework about conditions is the key.

I have been a part of the teams which had the original great man - Sachin Tendulkar. I remember in 2007-08 tour of Australia, Sachin paaji would get all the attention from the locals.

Virender Sehwag can tear any attack apart. He is audacious, takes risks and has fantastic hand/eye co-ordination.

Cricket has given me everything. If I'm anything today, it is because of the game... where I have given blood, sweat, and tears.

There have been a few times in my career when I have been close to tears after completing an innings, but rarely when I am waiting to bat.

Technically your best player should be batting at No. 3.

Cricket takes so long. There's a lot of airtime to fill. Guys have to talk about someone's technique for half an hour.

My experience with Australia in the 1997 Ashes series taught me that fighting back is a combination of technique and mindset.

KL Rahul has the technique for all forms of the game and for me more Test cricket than anything else. And if he performs so well in T20s and the 50-overs game, I think Test cricket is really where he's made for.

Batsmen like Gary Kirsten, Boeta Dippenaar and Neil McKenzie have good techniques and can bat for long periods.

The year 1989 was crucial for me because I had just moved from the country into Sydney to play first-class cricket. That was the time I heard of a teenager called Sachin Tendulkar, who had burst on to the scene and was being annointed as successor to the great Sunil Gavaskar.

Without television, cricket would be a poorer place;the two have to coexist.

If someone taps me on the shoulder and tells me they don't want me to open the batting for England, it's going to hurt.

Just like how you find players from different backgrounds in Indian cricket team, our Telugu industry is looking for talent, and it doesn't matter where it comes from.

There were pictures from cricket matches, and the statement by the Australian captain about a bunch of Third World beggars who think they can play cricket. And then the jubilation and fireworks and celebration when the bunch of beggars defeated Australia in the Test Series.

It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.

IPL does not allow Pakistani players because they are dangerous.

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.