Quotes About Cricket

You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.

I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?

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.

In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

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.

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

He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.

You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.

Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.

Why talk of the team when our Cricket Board is like an exclusive club with members being there for years on end? If they can stay on without performing, the players too feel they can stay in the team without too big a performance.

Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

I'm proud of what I've achieved in cricket, as once I didn't think I was good enough.

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

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

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

It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.

The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.

How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.

Dhoni has been an outstanding captain. His record as captain is simply terrific. He has done wonders to Indian cricket.

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

I think he is marvellous. I think he will fit in whatever category of Cricket that has been played or will be played, from the first ball that has ever been bowled to the last ball that's going to be. He can play in any era and at any level. I would say he's 99.5% perfect.

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

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

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.

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

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

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.

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.

A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.

2-0 is a cricket score in Italy

The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.