Quotes About Cricket

My favourite ground is The Oval because I have a lot of memories on that ground.

The Oval has always been a good batting track, and there's not much for the bowlers.

You don't think of these things when you play. When you retire, you look back and see that my Test average outside Asia is 40, and it is 49 overall. If I can change something, I'd like to change that average outside Asia. I tried as hard as I could outside Asia, but I couldn't do that.

I want my bowling to speak for me. In fact, not only my bowling, my batting, my fielding. Overall, I want my cricket to speak.

If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?

I didn't really know how people would take to me, especially at Hobart - it can be difficult having an overseas player who hasn't played any international cricket.

SNUDOO!" cried the little dragonet tied snugly to Cricket's chest. Bumblebee reached her tiny talons toward Sundew. "MRBLE SNUDOO!" "Is that tiny lizard trying to say my name?" Sundew asked, alarmed. "How did THAT happen?

Oooom-yum?" Bumblebee inquired, reaching for it. "Eeee?" "No," Cricket said. "GROSS, Bumblebee!" "GWOSE!" Bumblebee cried, waking up an anaconda as thick as Sundew's tail in the next tree over.

Blue sat up, yawning, and looked over Cricket's shoulder. "Maybe it thinks it's time to hatch because it's not in the Nest anymore." "Oh my stars," Cricket said. "Is that a thing? A real thing? Can it really tell it's not in the Nest?

Once removed from cricket, Martin became a reasonable companion again, and they took particular delight in the whinchats and wheatears on Ports Down and in a middle-spotted woodpecker eating ants like its great green cousin, which neither had seen before; but once they were in the town the future husband tended to predominate.

I love Canada. I miss the heat of India, the food, the house lizards on the walls, the musicals on the silver screen, the cows wandering on the streets, the crows cawing, even the talk of cricket matches, but I love Canada. It's a country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.

I'm most proud of a couple of things. Firstly what we managed to do with the team from 2009 to get them to win the Ashes in Australia. That was remarkable. And secondly moving England forward in white-ball cricket because that is where the game is going and we need to be at the vanguard.

When you turn up at a ground, you expect the wicket to behave in a certain fashion and it doesn't. There are so many variables in this game. It becomes even more important when it comes to T20 cricket.

T20 cricket is all about using variations, and timing has to be perfect.

Since I am a leg spinner, I would like to show all my four variations from all angles, two kinds of googlies which have been successful against left-handed batsmen.

In T20, you can show your variations; you can show your yorkers.

For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.

If you ask me the best bowler, then Wasim Akram was the best bowler because he had a lot of variety. Even when you were batting on 100 or 150, you're not very sure... He could still get you out. That was his forte.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

I have a lot of friends in the Australian cricket team, and they have told me a lot about India. Brett Lee was telling me about the food and Bollywood. I am the kind of person who likes to embrace the culture of a place, and I really want to travel and see the various temples around the country.

You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.

In white-ball cricket the conditions do vary, but throughout Tests it varies a lot more in a five-day game, and home advantage becomes more prevalent in Test cricket.

I tend to bowl outside the off-stump and I vary my pace.

There is a vast difference between playing Pakistan at home and away. I clearly recall, going into the quarter-finals at the Chinnaswamy stadium in 1996, that the pressure eased a bit when I stepped into a stadium where I had practically grown up as a cricketer.