Cricket Quotes · Page 34

In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.

— Ian Peebles

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

— Sachin Tendulkar

Test cricket is still important, so are ODIs, but T20 should be there too because of the crowd factor.

— Brian Lara

I think nobody has the right to talk about Sachin Tendulkar's game. It's just a phenomenon.

— Sourav Ganguly

Sachin Tendulkar is a guy you don't want to chat to period, because he will knuckle down...

— Brett Lee

Everyone remember's the last shot of World T20 2007, but forget who brought the match to the last over.

— Misbah-ul-Haq

I always found one-day cricket a lot harder. I had to change my game.

— Alastair Cook

I am working towards it, and it is a dream to play Test matches for India.

— Yuzvendra Chahal

For me, growing up and watching Test cricket and absolutely loving it, that's been the pinnacle for me with cricket.

— Ellyse Perry

When kids are 15 or 16, they should be playing more sports. I played football, basketball, cricket... Name any sport, and I played it.

— K. L. Rahul

There will be bowlers who will be having a good day, so it is important to give them their due. At the…

— Dinesh Karthik

I played my first game of adult cricket at about eight or nine when the fifth team were short and picked me…

— Joe Root

I do love the Ashes and some of my best memories are from Ashes cricket. I just wish we'd played a few…

— Isa Guha

Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.

— Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell

Cricket, politics, and cinema is what a majority in our country are most passionate about. They have the power to divide the…

— Vijay Deverakonda

When you play for India, you get more confidence because of bowling at Chinnaswamy. A spinner is always worried about short boundaries,…

— Yuzvendra Chahal

It's an interesting education to listen to cricket commentary when you're not at the game. When you're there, which is most of…

— Jonathan Agnew

Even the thunderous master-blasters, like Andre Russell and MS Dhoni, men who now make scoring more than 20 runs per over look…

— AB de Villiers

There's so much information out there. There are written biographies of Gavaskar and Kapil Dev, there are interviews, and we have had…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I didn't have a good time with Lancashire in 2000. Probably I'd played too much cricket and should have taken a rest,…

— Sourav Ganguly

Drew's a funny guy. Because anything he gets into, he gets in 100%. Even when we were doing 'The Drew Carey Show,'…

— Ryan Stiles

I had to stop being a student idiot and become more sensible and organised and that definitely improved my batting. I also…

— Andrew Strauss

From the age of eight until 15 or 16, every time I was out bowling leg spin I was thinking about my…

— Nasser Hussain

I dedicate my store to my birthplace. People over there look very good and have got purchasing power, too, and I think…

— Suresh Raina

Everyone knows I've got a pretty passionate outlook on my cricket - and sometimes it does get the better of me.

— Stuart Broad

If you want to to be a smart cricketer, you have to play according to the situation.

— Hardik Pandya

John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket.

— Clifford Longley

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

— Jeremy London

I have never run after the captaincy in my entire career. It is something for the cricket board to decide.

— Shahid Afridi

I see myself as a proper all-rounder and not bowling or batting all- rounder.

— Hardik Pandya

Dale Steyn and Vernon Philander are two world-class bowlers and they have shown it.

— Kane Williamson

What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below.

— Wallace Stevens

I have bowled with the new ball before when I came into the Indian team in the T20 formats.

— Jasprit Bumrah

I think I chose wisely. When it came down to it, I knew I was a better goalkeeper than I was a…

— David Seaman

“Pray God that no professional will ever captain England.”

— Martin Hawke

My dad is a great cricket fan, and I used to play a bit back in Jamaica.

— Donovan Bailey

Ultimately we're playing cricket and we want guys who will score runs and take catches to help England win.

— Stuart Broad

Before I had my son, I used to travel a lot, almost 40-50 days at a time for cricket tournaments.

— Mandira Bedi

Batsmen like Gary Kirsten, Boeta Dippenaar and Neil McKenzie have good techniques and can bat for long periods.

— Nasser Hussain

If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

— Joseph O'Neill