It would be great to see more Asian women playing cricket at every level.
I think Bollywood and cricket go hand in hand. Glamour attracts glamour. Cricket has become a very glamorous game now.
My mum, Kathy, works as a GP and my dad, Mark, was a high school maths teacher. He now manages mum’s practice and is also my cricket coach. We are a close-knit family.
I understand cricket – what’s going on, the scoring – but I can’t understand why.
Ajwa and Asmara are the youngest and love to play dress-up. They have my permission to play any sport, as long as they’re indoors. Cricket? No, not for my girls.
Let me tell you, it is an absolute lie that I told a probe panel that Meiyappan was only a cricket enthusiast. All I said is he had nothing to do with the team’s on-field cricketing decisions. I can’t even pronounce the word ‘enthusiast.’
I have always loved cricket since childhood.
I’d love to tell you that everyone who voted Brexit felt like me about the country, about the Union Jack and the cricket team. But I don’t think that there’s as much romanticism in it, perhaps, as people think.
A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, I have never made a run for me. Records meant nothing. The team was important.
Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It’s basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.
I have lived my dream and played at the finest of cricket grounds across the globe, and I want to thank the groundsmen, clubs, associations, and everyone who painstakingly prepare the arena for our performances.
In Test cricket, you have to be adaptable.
I have to say that I have developed a real passion for Pakistan cricket.
Well, all cricket invites attention.
The one thing we need to do to continue to maintain Test cricket as being special is cutting down the amount and make it a real occasion rather than playing one after another.
Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don’t understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn’t understand what they were talking about.
It’s all about doing the little things right. It doesn’t matter what form of cricket you are playing. Just keep things simple, and you will succeed.
The stats suggest that I’m not a dasher. It doesn’t mean I can’t play the shots, but when you find a method in four-day and Test cricket that works for you, you stick with it.
When I am off the field, I am the calm, very quiet kind of easy-sailing ocean, and then when I am on a hot streak with a cricket ball, I can be the most disastrous waters you have ever been in.
I was helped by the fact that my dad is a cricket fanatic and that my three brothers and two sisters all played. It’s just part of our family.
I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can’t think of any I don’t love. I’ve even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don’t know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn’t have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
White ball cricket can be taxing on bowlers and can be a distraction for a youngster, too.
For me Test cricket is the ultimate.
I was a middle-order batsman who was too good against spin and hit sixes consistently in Under-19 and Ranji cricket, and I still have the same confidence.
In Pakistan cricket, the real test comes when the team is not doing well. When it is winning, everything is fine.
I used to come to school with my school bag hanging on one shoulder and the cricket kit on the other. It was pretty cool and I felt special.
I am so passionate about Pakistan cricket that I would never ever put myself in a position where there will be a conflict of interest.
The Sydney Cricket Ground is my favourite ground in the world, my home ground, and growing up in the bush all I wanted was to play at the SCG.
The problem is there’s still a big kid inside me who likes to have fun. I am passionate about my cricket and I love my family, but I’m also a kid and maybe I need to grow up… And maybe I don’t.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people’s ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That’s the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
All I ever wanted to do was play cricket for England and be successful.
That’s one of the good things about cricket, the friendships around the game.
But eventually it is a game of cricket.
I was the youngest child and the only son. I was expected to shine in academics. It seemed like too big a risk to take up cricket as a career. I thought I had to live up to my family’s expectations. So I chose to be an engineer.
I’d always had this romantic idea, ever since I’ve been writing scripts, that I would travel one day and pull up stumps, as we say in Australia. It’s a cricket reference. You can Google it. Pull up stumps in some country like Italy or Spain and do my little Truman Capote thing.
Tendulkar is my idol in cricket, and one thing I try to pick up from him is how he carries himself in a humble manner.
I have time only for cricket, and when I am not playing, I love to be at home, chat with my family, do puja with them, call for some yummy paani puri, etc. Also I love to cook. I can make dal, sabji and chicken! But, at home everybody’s a vegetarian, so I can’t cook non-veg at home!
If you’re playing Test cricket you could bowl 20 overs in a day. I could play about five T20s in that space.
In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.
Whether it is Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, or Inzamam ul-Haq, they will also say that they get a lot of respect here because cricket is literally worshiped in India.
I play cricket. I’m a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket.
I want my bowling to speak for me. In fact, not only my bowling, my batting, my fielding. Overall, I want my cricket to speak.
When I was younger, I played football and table tennis for local teams. I also played mini-rugby at primary school – I was tall for my age – and Preston Grasshoppers wanted me, but I wasn’t that interested in rugby. It was always going to be cricket for me.
Amit Mishra has got that experience. He has played 10-12 years of international cricket. Whenever he bowls those four overs, he knows exactly what his plans are. He has bowled to almost every player, and he knows where to bowl to them.
I’d love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be turn – a cricket match without spinners is like a chess match without two important pieces – a less interesting game.
I absolutely love my cricket. I would watch it six, seven hours a day when Australia were playing. I grew up in a very spoilt era of Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee, Ricky Ponting and others.
Aggressive cricket is a form of cricket where you play to win.
Traditional cricket has gone out of the window. It’s gone. T20 cricket has changed the game.
High-intensity training works well for cricket because we spend long periods waiting around and then have to perform sudden sprints or dives.
Before I made my Test debut, I had played nearly nine years of first-class cricket.
I want to complete my MBA but don’t know when I will find time from my cricket schedule.
Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.
My brother, Ajay, who plays lower-division games, and I discuss cricket often.
I feel proud when a player from Jammu and Kashmir plays for India. This shows cricket has reached all corners of the country.
Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.
As a child, I was into cricket and boxing in school.
I keep learning from my mistakes and take advice from my seniors Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq because I want to be better and better in Test cricket.
For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business – in fact, in any walk of life.
Twenty20 is must for cricket. Without T20, cricket cannot survive.
I used to work in a clothes store, played cricket for money, did photo shoots. It was that period of struggle which gave me the experience to be an actor. The emotions have to come from the raw material of life.
There has been a positive change with people being aware about women’s cricket of late. It’s still far from what it needs to be, but women are slowly getting the right recognition for this game.
T20 cricket is all about using variations, and timing has to be perfect.
I enjoy playing Test cricket, especially against India in India.
I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
