Cricket Quotes · Page 30

Everything goes out of the window when you start an Ashes series. It's about grabbing the moment.

— Jonny Bairstow

It was a great experience to share the dressing room with names like Virat Kohli, M S Dhoni, Rohit Sharma.

— Vijay Shankar

I've always said it's just a game of cricket. The only pressure I get is when I feel I've let the team…

— Moeen Ali

To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.

— Fred Trueman

I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly

— Greg Chappell

It's not that I consider myself as a batsman, I am a proper batsman.

— Ravindra Jadeja

I never thought along the lines of red ball or white ball cricket. I just go and enjoy my game.

— Yuzvendra Chahal

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

— Neville Cardus

Standing at the end of your run with the ball in your hand preparing to bowl the first ball of an Ashes…

— Glenn McGrath

I've always wanted to play Test cricket from a young age and that's what you dream about. But you have to make…

— Joe Root

MS Dhoni showed India what a tough man from a small town could dream and achieve. He has been a role model.…

— Harsha Bhogle

I guarantee you 80 percent of this country will stop watching cricket if they did not bet on a match. Every single…

— Raj Kundra

One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's…

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni

If someone who doesn't know anything about wicketkeeping finds a reason to criticise, you have to sift it out. It's about working…

— Jonny Bairstow

After my dismissal, I received nothing in writing from Cricket Australia, no contact, and no payment at all, not even of my…

— Mickey Arthur

In Pakistan cricket, the real test comes when the team is not doing well. When it is winning, everything is fine.

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just…

— Virat Kohli

“The [bowling] ball flew out jerkily, sailed about four feet, hit the lane with a loud crack , and then promptly entered…

— Richelle Mead

Yes, you have to be brave enough to take steps that your heart is telling you to take. Because when I decided…

— Preity Zinta

“As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped…

— Patrick Ferriday

Why talk of the team when our Cricket Board is like an exclusive club with members being there for years on end?…

— Sunil Gavaskar

I always wondered if I would know the right time to retire. After that first Ashes Test in Brisbane in 2006 I…

— Glenn McGrath

You travel the world and you talk to people about Jos Buttler, and they rave about this lad. I don't like massive…

— Nasser Hussain

For any sport to be sustainable, it cannot survive on government or corporate grants alone. The sporting ecosystem needs more investments from…

— Anand Mahindra

When you are playing a Test match, you would like to be playing with your strongest side.

— Ravi Shastri

Quite honestly, cricket is same at all levels. It's a game of bat and ball.

— K. L. Rahul

The first time you face up to a googly you're going to be in trouble if you've never faced one before

— Trevor Bailey

Traditional cricket has gone out of the window. It's gone. T20 cricket has changed the game.

— Dale Steyn

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

— George Bernard Shaw

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.

— Frank Woolley

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

— Mary Russell Mitford

The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.

— Bill Bryson

It's a great achievement for a 29-year-old to play 100 Tests.

— Brian Lara

I think Kohli is magnificent in a run chase, I have to say. He has won so many matches for India.

— Nasser Hussain

It was always a dream to play Test cricket and get a first five-wicket haul over here.

— Jasprit Bumrah

My favourite sport's cricket and one of the key things in cricket is to know when to declare.

— Andrew Neil

With my bowling, I didn't know how I was doing it, so when it went wrong I didn't know how to fix…

— Nasser Hussain

I have had a craze for football since my schooldays; more than cricket I love football.

— Kalabhavan Mani

Any spinner can change the game. It's been proven in T20 cricket.

— Imran Tahir

Test cricket is pretty much the same as first-class - know what your strengths are and stick to them.

— Jofra Archer