Cricket Quotes

Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game.

If I have a son and he decides to play cricket, I will want him to bat like Sachin Tendulkar.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying "I don't want to bore you with the details".

I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

Virat Kohli is the PRINCE of Indian cricket.

I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall.

Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

Cricket to us was more than play, It was a worship in the summer sun.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

I've never got to the bottom of streaking

British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

Sachin is the greatest player I have seen. I consider it an honour to have rubbed shoulders with him

India Are Playing Very Good Cricket Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

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

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.

I love surfing more than cricket. It's more interesting and you meet great people.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

Harder he works, the luckier he gets.

Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline.

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.

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