Quotes About Cricket

I don't know about Cricket but still I watch Cricket to see Sachin play..Not because I love his play, its because I want to know the reason why my country's production goes down by 5 percent when he is in batting

Sourav has got a huge role to play in Indian cricket and its success. I hope certainly that he gets back in there because he is a hell of a good player and he still has got too much to offer to Indian cricket.

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.

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

Don't get me wrong. I like Disney World. The rest rooms are clean enough for neurosurgery, and the employees say things like "Howdy, folks!" and actually seem to mean it. You wonder: Where do they get these people? My guess: 1952. I think old Walt realized, way back then, that there would eventually be a shortage of cheerful people, so he put all the residents of south western Nebraska into a giant freezer with a huge picture of Jiminy Cricket on the outside, and the corporation has been thawing them out as needed ever since.

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

I like to play test cricket. It is really challenging, because you need to really score runs, stay in the wicket and continue for five days.

The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult to come to terms with a life where old and valued friends insist on calling me 'Sir' instead of Don, simply because they think it is protocol. But I have consciously shouldered these burdens because I felt that I was the medium through which cricket could achieve a higher status and gain maximum support from the people, not only in Australia but throughout the world.

There are 2 types of captains in World Cricket. One is MS Dhoni and the other are the all others.

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

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

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

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.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

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.

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.

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

Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.

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.

There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.

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