Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to...

Cricket is an art. Like all arts it has a technical foundation. To enjoy it does not require technical knowledge, but analysis that is not technically based is mere impressionism.

Apart from a short period of rest there are no other impediments to Chris returning to the cricket field in the near future.

It’s a great sign for him and for Indian cricket. Hopefully, he will go from strength to strength from here.

Test cricket is the only thing that counts. One-day and T20 performances are fine, but you rate a player by his status as a Test player. By the time I finish, I want to play...

In cricket- be fit, be alert and be Sachin.

My father used to say, ‘If you want to know the artist, look at the art’. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.

Brett’s one of the few people in world cricket at the moment that is bowling consistently at 150km/h. You only have to be a fraction out in your action and the ball could potentially go...

Bangladesh bowled well — added with some bad cricket from us.

No one understands cross country; no one is interested in the U.S.. Sponsorship and recognition are hard to get. It’s like cricket in Norway.

Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar.

[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70...

There’s a lot of good things about England, but I don’t want to tell you too many of them.

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

A meeting was held to discuss some Zimbabwe Cricket ideas for making progress on negotiations. But they have dug their heels in and are all adamant there will be no talks until payments have been...

What will Bob Woolmer do now? The Pakistan cricket team has a bowling coach. Now they have a fielding coach and the skipper himself is a batsman. I don?t understand what will Bob Woolmer do.

The cricket talent in India is still very much untapped. The hope is that the new money can help find our future stars.

As an international batsman, I have to come out to bat under any situation. Sometimes a platform has been laid; on others, we have to build one. That’s part of our job, and that’s why...

Sachin plays not only to be remembered but also to be repeated.

Those English always say, “Look before thou leap”. But, as is customary with the English, that is looking the wrong way. I say, Ranga, to look before thou look. Then, when thou actually looks before...

Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.

If we play good cricket, we should win,

Hence, I shall try to go to England and play county cricket for six to eight weeks.

The matches have been so close and tensely fought that people not only in England but in other cricket playing nations are totally involved in its outcome.

This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.

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

Zimbabwe Cricket has really had it now. The players relented from a similar position to give ZC a further three weeks until the end of the month to pay the large sums of money owed...

Yuvraj Singh is one of the best batsmen to watch in world cricket when he’s in form. He is ego personified. Yuvraj doesn’t just hit the ball, he lets it rebound off his aura.

Irrespective of what happened in the past (the just-concluded Test series), we will play positive and good cricket.

I guess we speak pretty loosely, don’t we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that—and we are, but it’s not with both eyes. We’ve got one eye on that and one eye on...

Two examples of true love are love between mother and child and love between Sachin and cricket.

It’s time to play cricket. That’s what we’re here for. We have had our challenges in the past and this is another challenge. I’m excited about the possibilities.

It is an evolving situation and we will do whatever the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) tells us.

If you are a Swede living in Sweden, Portugal and Italy you don’t know much about cricket. We don’t understand, we have never played it. If you live in England, you should go to see...

I haven’t played any cricket in the last five months. It was fairly frustrating. Now, I have started bowling and I am all geared up to get back into action.

That is important for players to recover but I don’t think excessive international cricket is being played these days. The players are also being paid well now.

The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.

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

It’s vital that we try to keep cricket going in Zimbabwe, but these are professional sportsmen who have to make a living, I’m personally a bit upset that the ICC has not found the need...

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

It was not that a single performance lifted us. It was a hard fight and we played good cricket. But we can’t slip up as there is still a lot left in the series.

Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.

Football said,”Why I am not a cricket ball to get a shot from Sachin”.

Obviously New Zealand has been playing better cricket than us but we back ourselves, if we perform well, to be very competitive against them.

They are fantastic, a real rainbow alliance, with Muslims, Christians and a Jewish player joining together through cricket, although I think they have done well to the chagrin of some of the traditionalists. They have...

STOP FLIRTING AND GET BACK TO WORK.

I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me.

It is impossible to empathise with these mono-dimensional heroes. For half the novel, their lives are nothing short of bliss, which is another way of saying that next to nothing happens. This is exemplary of...

As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped catch. For this reason any innings worthy of consideration deserves to have all...