Quotes About Cricket

That's how cricket should be broadcast. Ball-by-ball calling is important but you've got to be lighthearted like you're down the pub with your mates.

Then started playing men's cricket when I was 15. That's when I stopped enjoying it. It was long days, 50-over games with men 15 years older who you don't really have anything in common with, all talking about going to the pub.

When I arrived at Middlesex I was the only guy who'd been to public school and I got plenty of stick. But it wasn't held against me for long.

Seems to me the rules are loaded against batsmen. If bowlers show dissent after a near miss they never seem to get punished.

IPL is pure sport. The glitz and glamour is just 15 per cent. 85% is actually professional, hard cricket.

The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

An all-rounder is someone who can make it to the team purely on the basis of his batting or bowling. Not both.

Andrew Strauss captained me through my purple patch.

I wanted to pursue my passion for cricket, but after school, I got into an engineering college.

I am changing the culture in this Pakistan environment and I am not interested in players doing just the bare minimum. I want players winning us games of cricket and pushing themselves to be the best they can be.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

You have to be smart on your feet. It will be hard on wickets where the ball will keep low. Hopefully, you can get one to fly, and that puts doubts in the batsman's mind.

It doesn't matter how many runs one person puts together. We want to get partnerships and get 400 runs on the board. One person can't get 400 runs on the board if there is nobody at the other end.

Kohli is a flag bearer of Indian cricket.

At the start, when I started playing first-class cricket, I was a flamboyant player and I never used to take responsibility.

You can't bowl fast on flat wickets and you need to give it loop so that the ball takes turn.

You can be in India bowling at 90mph and it doesn't matter because the wickets are flat and the batsmen are really good.

I don't like bowling on turning wickets because on turning wickets, most balls would just beat the batsmen. On flat wickets you can plan - when to bowl sliders, when to bowl googly.

A cricket team is always made up of 11 different individuals and you want to give them enough flexibility to be themselves.

I have many, many fond memories of Yuvraj Singh. He started under my captaincy.

I've played a lot of cricket at Trent Bridge over the years, and have had a lot of fond memories there.

I followed in my brother's footsteps. I used to wake up at 5 a.m, and wait for him to complete his cricket practice just so I could play the 10-15 balls pitched to me at the end.

First and foremost I'm a batsman in the side and that's my job, to score runs.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.