Quotes About Cricket

One-day cricket and T20s have vastly different identities and one cannot look at it through the mere lens of 'white-ball cricket.'

I have time only for cricket, and when I am not playing, I love to be at home, chat with my family, do puja with them, call for some yummy paani puri, etc. Also I love to cook. I can make dal, sabji and chicken! But, at home everybody's a vegetarian, so I can't cook non-veg at home!

T20 is the vehicle to make cricket a truly global game.

The new Tests centres are as good as other major venues. For example, Pune and Dharmshala are much better grounds than most others. So why should they be left behind?

With Test cricket, it's very important that you are bowling at high speed but T20 cricket is a great way to be versatile.

There are different roles you must play over 80 overs and that means you need to be versatile as a bowler.

I don't judge a player by T20 performance, I judge them from their performances in longer version of cricket.

If you are Pakistani or Indian you might just as well commit suicide when the team is humiliated; if you're West Indian, you might feel the world has fallen apart when things go wrong at the Oval. But these are countries where cricket is one of the leading suppliers of national pride. In England, you don't support cricket teams, you follow them. It's the game you support, not the team.

Until we can get people who are willing to play for West Indies in the right way, I think that we're going to be struggling for a long time.

Before the match starts I visualise that I will try to rotate the strike and take singles. But if I see that the players batting before me are struggling, and the wicket is not playing that good, I try to dominate from the first ball.

I prioritise different things at different times, so when a cricket tour is coming up, cricket takes priority. But then there are times when I need to focus on my studies. I think it's good to have a balance.

When you start off a T20 innings you want someone who is going to be hitting the top of off stump, causing problems and being quite disciplined with the ball.

There's little that's subtle about Hardus Viljoen - he's a broad-chested, broad-shouldered fast bowler, who simply trundles up to the wicket and hurls it down as fast as possible.

The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it... !!

I have always enjoyed my cricket, be it home or abroad.

According to me, there couldn't be a better choice for India's coach than Anil Kumble.

I have seen that Tendulkar was not at all comfortable against Shoaib in Kolkata Test in 1999. It was Shoaib's first tour of India, and he bowled out Sachin without giving him a chance to open his account.

I enjoy taking wickets more than most people can understand. I'm addicted to that feeling.

I admired Stephen Fleming.

I have always got a lot of love and affection from Indian fans.

Every time you're involved in an Ashes series, as soon as it finishes at the back of your mind you start thinking about the next one.

The Ashes are the biggest Test series played in the world.

I want to win the Ashes.

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.