I like to take wickets and see wickets and chances and I think in T20 cricket you have to risk a boundary to take a wicket.
One of the great things about cricket, and certainly something that I found helpful, was that as soon as you step over the boundary rope you can switch off everything that is happening off the field and focus solely on what is happening out on the pitch.
A cricket team is always made up of 11 different individuals and you want to give them enough flexibility to be themselves.
Please criticize me, but how can you accuse me of something like fixing a cricket game after all that the game has given me.
I did my wholehearted effort to lift Pakistan cricket.
We should be far more flexible about the way we play our cricket away from home. We can’t just presume that what works at home will work away. We need to be more flexible and creative both in the way we play and the way we select.
When my ban was relaxed I began playing club cricket. Imagine, for a person who had played at Lord’s, to play with a club team who didn’t have proper kit against another club team in Lahore.
I was actually a top-order batsman when I played league cricket in Tamil Nadu. When I made my Ranji debut, I had to bat down the order.
Franchise cricket is here to stay because of the money.
Unlike cricket, where I reached the top solely down to my own efforts, cancer was not a one-man battle. This time, I couldn’t have done it on my own. Without the support and bullying encouragement of my wife Rachael, I would not be here now.
I want to be associated with a show related to cricket as I’m proud of India playing the sport at an international level.
I don’t think cricket will ever have the same sort of money as football.
I love cricket. My all-time favourite is Sachin Tendulkar, without a shadow of a doubt.
You can really put yourself out there in front of the world, make a name for yourself in international cricket.
I love Messi. I also derive inspiration from the god of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar.
We used to go cycling as a family every weekend. I played basketball, cricket, badminton, and was half-decent at them.
I was a coach for a celebrity cricket league. Whenever I trained or practised with them, I missed cricket.
In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.
We all know the soil in western India has a reddish tinge. In cricketing parlance it means a ticket to party for the spinners at the start and end of a cricket season.
I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn’t happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn’t have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
I’ve been lucky in that my parents have always supported me with my cricket, but I’ve seen so many young Asian girls who don’t keep up their sporting interests after the age of 12 or 13.
For me looking at the success of some of the women’s football World Cups, the crowds they’ve drawn, the spectacle it has created and the event that it’s been I think it’s really great cricket is having a go at that as well.
It’s really important to have your escape away from cricket, whatever that is for the individual. I enjoy my time away from the game, that really refreshes me and lets me get excited for when I do go back in and play.
As a kid, I was like anybody else, playing cricket, enjoying it. The only difference is, right from when I can remember, I always used to love bowling.
That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.
People talk about cricket being an individual game but I really don’t agree; everything is done in a partnership.
In very few countries I enjoyed cricket more than I did in India. I would always remember the love my team and I got from the fans here.
Although I am not in the thick of things when it comes to T20 cricket, but as an ODI captain, I’d like to give more stability to the players.
Cricket kept me away from trouble.
The boss is the captain on the cricket field. I am in charge of the coaching staff. That’s put into place. My job is to oversee things and see things go all right. Who cares who’s the boss? At the end of the day, you win and to hell with it, yaar.
I began playing at the age of six, but at that point, I had little idea of cricket; forget the talent part. It’s around the age of 10-11, when more people around me began talking of my skills, that I felt maybe I could go on to do something.
I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
National interest is above anything else. Just because you sit in an air-conditioned room, you can say you shouldn’t relate cricket and movies to politics. Ask anyone who has lost a family member to terror attacks, and you will get your answer.
Cricket is such a sport that you get to learn something from someone every day.
I don’t enjoy cricket. I just take it as a priority… something that I have to do.
I have played cricket on my own terms.
To people who don’t take women’s cricket seriously, I’d say: just watch a game first, and then make your judgement.
We don’t cover too many draws in Test cricket and its great: it means the cricket is more interesting, more exciting.
No disrespect to county cricket but when you’re playing for England it is the ultimate, it is what has always driven me to push myself above and beyond.
Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that’s why I’m a basketball fanatic.
Pressure is the biggest single factor in Test cricket.
One-day cricket is about aggression and flair, but Test cricket is a different ball game. One has to struggle through the hard periods initially and then look on to get a respectable score on the board.
