Quotes About Cricket

I am honoured to be appointed Test captain.

My father had always hoped that one day I would be a great cricketer, captaining the Stowe Eleven, perhaps, or even playing for Cambridge.

I have lot of hopes from Virat Kohli and nation believes in him.

I've been to a lot of places to play cricket, but cricket and training get in the way! In India, all you see is the hotel and the cricket ground.

T20 is good entertainment. It is a game you need. People go to watch it. You have to be careful how far you let it go.

To play in a Super Over at the end of a draining day takes a huge amount of effort.

England's full of cricket tradition. I follow the game there hugely.

I am a huge fan of Sachin. He is not only a great cricketer but a humble human being as well.

T20 is generally the fun side of cricket. You've got to have a sense of humour. Some days you can turn up and get whacked. Next game turn up, bowl the same and you don't go for many. You have to take it as it comes.

If you score a hundred in one game and then don't do much in the next three or four matches, then that hundred doesn't mean anything.

What Kohli and Tendulkar have in common is they love making big hundreds.

I learned from Tendulkar how to get big hundreds.

When I get on the pitch I have to make sure I am getting hundreds and taking six-fors.

The contribution of Anthony William Greig to English cricket has been underestimated because of his allegiance to Kerry Packer and his choice to recruit players for World Series Cricket while still the England captain. His critics hold that as a black mark against him, which rules out anything else he may have done.

Hashim Amla is someone that stands out. He's a world-class player and I have not had a huge amount of success against him.

I am enjoying the experience of working with Mishra. For me, he is a world-class spinner.

It was two different worlds: my world - cricket, the dressing room and the lads. And then family. Even when they travelled with me, it wasn't always easy to bridge the gap.

I do not fear grassy tracks. Whether there is grass or not on the wicket, I am not worried.

Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.

It was an old cricket coach who started calling me Fred - as in Flintstone. There are far worse things to be called in the dressing room.

There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

We will unconditionally worship Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, partly because we approve of their well-mannered modesty. They are non-threatening, good hearted blokes - the boys we take home to Momma.

I used to feel like not scoring runs is the worst thing in life but I started thinking: 'No, at least I'm getting to go out on the field wearing the Indian jersey.' Not many get to do that. I am lucky. Now, if I get runs or don't get runs, I'm just going out there trying to enjoy my cricket.

Stuart Broad's 400th Test wicket did not come the way he would have wanted - Tom Latham chipped the ball to mid-wicket - but he will take it nonetheless. It is a fantastic achievement.