Quotes About Cricket

If you pick up that information, the first metre or two, the ball coming out of the hand, you can analyse what's coming.

I always wanted to do be an allrounder. I don't know why I picked keeping.

My brother was a left-hander. When I was young, my father would say take your brother's gloves and pads and play, so I picked up the bat left-handed.

A large part of my childhood was spent holding a cricket bat. The first time I picked one up was in the garden aged about six, and I've never really put the bat down since.

In local cricket, I scored big hundreds and picked wickets against good teams.

I batted with contact lenses in the IPL while playing for Delhi Daredevils. I wasn't picking the ball early. So I went back to the glasses.

You can call it my bias or love for Harbhajan but if you are picking three best spinners in the country, he's got to be among them. Harbhajan is one bowler who should be playing all three formats of the game.

When I first came into the England one-day side and joined the selectors, I wanted to move away from picking what some people called the bits-and-pieces to the best batsmen and bowlers.

The pink ball is a bit different. I don't think it moves as much through the air.

I have had a bowl with the pink ball but it was in a day game at Wormsley.

I have only played in two first-class matches with a pink ball and both of them were over inside two days.

Dhoni has changed the face of Indian cricket and took them to the pinnacle of success, and his captaincy will be missed by the Indian team. He has led them well in all formats.

It has been an honour to represent Pakistan in the pinnacle and traditional format of the game. I, however, have decided to move away from the longer version so I can concentrate on white ball cricket.

I really can't pinpoint why I celebrate the way I do. I just love it when I pick a wicket, and it comes naturally to me to express my joy in the manner that I do.

Cricket is also a bit more of a social game. You are never too far away from one of your other team-mates, so you can always wander over for a bit of a chat. For example, if I am at mid-off, I could always wander over to mid-on and have a joke with Stuart Broad.

I play a lot of cricket. I just want to play, play, and play.

I have my own batting style and don't want to be compared with Kohli.

I have always wanted to play at the top of the order.

I like Tendulkar and I think the Indian batsmen are stylish but I support England and I have always wanted to play for England.

I've played in Test matches before after injury without first playing a county game or warm-up of some sort.

For me, David Warner isn't just the future of Australian batting, he's the future for cricket in general because he can excel in any form of the game. I'm excited just watching him.

I was lucky enough to play with some great batsman - Matthew Hayden, Steve Smith, David Warner, Adam Gilchrist, Damien Martyn who was a genius.

As a kid, you always dream to play at Lord's. Unfortunately, we missed playing at Lord's in 2014 as the match was washed out.

A man's attraction towards a woman is propelled by his innate feelings, while a woman is more sort of involved in a mental game, an impossible preposition of sorts, its like playing soccer in a cricket ground!"