Cricket Quotes

The aim of English cricket is, in fact, mainly to beat Australia.

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

There's always pressure in test cricket we just need to stick to our toes.

I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

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

O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die.

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized.

A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.

Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

I love to watch movies and play cricket.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

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

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

I want to convey a message to the Sri Lankan government that they should seriously consider sending Sri Lankan Cricket Team to Pakistan.

I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

It is a great feeling of course to have scored so many runs, but that is what I play cricket for: to score lots of runs.

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

Cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing.

Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.

We have started calling him grandfather.

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

Sachin is the greatest role model I've ever met.

There's no better sight on the cricket field than watch Tendulkar bat.

Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit

I have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar.

Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.

India me aap Prime Minister ko ek baar katghare me khada kar sakte hain. Par Sachin Tendulkar par ungli nahi utha Sakte.

The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

Jadeja has been sent by N. Srinivasan to play cricket and then go back…to Dhoni.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

When we're not trying to kill each other with spells, we just sit in in Daniel's dressing room watching cricket games on television.

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

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

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

The Prince of Calcutta. Two of his special qualities are his intelligence and articulation, both of which have helped him immensely in the world of contemporary cricket.

In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket.

There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.