Quotes About Cricket

When you think of the great eight-wicket bowling figures in Test history, the names of Michael Holding, Shane Warne and Stuart Broad spring to mind.

I was a bowler - left arm, smash it down as fast as I could. I did a lot of work with Damian D'Oliveira, and I probably had a chance of doing that for a living. But when I reached 16, I knew I couldn't carry on playing both football and cricket, and I was already in the Shrewsbury squad.

When I was in the T20 squad, I was the only one short of experience, everyone else had over 100 T20 caps.

I'm not too sure how it will go but I think whenever I do get the chance to bat I can just show what I can do and hopefully with a lot of performances I could squeeze my way up the order a bit.

I am an ardent cricket fan, and I have seen the iconic Sharjah Cricket Stadium matches on TV.

I don't watch cricket very much, but of course I enjoy whenever I see the sport, especially live, because of the energy in the stadium with the fans going crazy.

Whether that was in the Chepauk Stadium in Madras or at the Ilford Cricket School, there was a daily diet of cricket run by my dad. It was a hard school but he knew what he was doing. Everything I achieved was down to my dad.

One of my highlights of being a Proteas player is that at one stage we were the No. 1 team across all formats.

For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a way of attacking rather than setting attacking fields.

These one-dayers and these Twenty20s is where Virat Kohli can really stand up and lead from the front.

Cricket is hard enough: stand up for yourself and stand up for the team.

From a personal standpoint, my ability to play all around the wicket is more mindset than anything else.

In 2014, my first year as an England player, I got booed by some India fans at Edgbaston every time the ball went near me.

Religion is very important to me. One of my aims is to try to show that you can have faith and play cricket. There can be a lot of negativity and misunderstanding of Islam.

When I gradually realized the emotion behind it, I began playing cricket in our neighborhood, which I think everyone has.

I always try and emphasize on having specific net sessions on 'death bowling.' It is similar to length balls - the more you practice, the better you get at it.

In my mind, I work out situations. Like, how I should play if I bat for four overs, or how should I approach myself if its 10 overs. These are things I work at the nets.

I started the game, in the nets, I used to be a little sceptical. When I bowled, the balance of the ball was a lot different to the red ball.

Taking part and helping West Indies win the World T20 in 2012 - I'll never forget the feeling. The celebrations afterwards were crazy, a massive all-nighter.

We want to inspire cricket fans and enhance their love for the game as well as bring new people and children into the fold and encourage them to pick up a bat.

If you're getting something from the wicket, you can be playing in England or Australia or India, and the newness of the ball won't matter to spinners.

After I joined the Indian cricket team, MS Dhoni advised me that I need to avoid reading the newspapers and should try to stay away from social media as much as possible.

You have to look at cricket from a global perspective. The ICC is also looking at the BCCI for some kind of leadership, to take cricket to the next level. So the ICC is incomplete without the BCCI.

It's always nice to get a call-up when in decent nick as you can have that confidence coming into the game. It's what county cricket should do.