Country Quote by Shashi Tharoor

You need to protect the best players in the country. When there is so much cricket, we must work on ways to prolong their…

— Mohammad Azharuddin

“In some country patriotism is shown only for cricket. When it comes to responsibilities’ they started blaming their own country, politician, people, and others.…

— Vivek Thangaswamy

In international cricket you have to thrive on the big stage, you have to deal with the media and the pressure.

— Alastair Cook

We should be looking to inspire every living person in this country to play the game of cricket.

— Joe Root

The cricket star, like everyone else, should have an intelligent understanding of the crisis of the nation-state and the marginalisation of small communities within…

— Hilary Beckles

I love the individual characters that cricket produces and, more than most other sports, the unlikely heroes.

— Jonathan Agnew

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

— Robert Mugabe

People make mistakes along the way. Cricket means I may not always be there for everyone all the time. But when I take the…

— Moeen Ali

Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short…

— Harsha Bhogle

People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle…

— Gagan Narang

The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.

— Ian Botham

It's the passion for the game that attracts politicians to cricket.

— Anurag Thakur