I would like to be an umpire when Sachin is batting, so to get the best possible view of his shots.

Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.

There’s an old joke about a mother watching a column of soldiers pass by. Her son is in the ranks. All those men out of step, she says, except our Fred.

Football has something to learn from cricket: respect for officials, for each other as professionals and for the opponents.

Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he...

He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

Given the impoverished state of the counties, I realise the England and Wales Cricket Board faced a difficult decision,

The amount of cricket being played these days is too hectic for me and I felt playing both forms was affecting my performances. Doing well in the World Cup and helping my team win is...

Kaneria has competed in more than 50 Test series [sic] for Pakistan during his career.

I followed suit, a little bit nervous, and very unaware of what I was supposed to do. I had that same sensation you get when you were new to a school and had no idea...

I don’t understand the game of Cricket. But I do get the game of Noisy Night Insect.

Hopefully we have a good wicket in Karachi so that both teams can play some entertaining cricket.

I love our summer game and its letters as much as the next man, and surely no less than my colleagues. I do not, however, repose much faith in its fiction. The short stories are...

Cricket must be proud, “I played by Sachin Tendulkar”.

The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.

I have been surprised yet again with my estimates. This is magic. It shows what cricket is all about in this country.

If a cigarette butt in the bottom of a beer bottle had a voice it would be the voice of Phil Tufnell.

But he was the captain and once you are on the cricket field you must give support to the captain.

In 2011 India’s Test team was crowned as world cricket’s leading side for the first time in its history. The foundations for this global domination can be traced to a decade earlier, when a career-defining...

Indian cricket, and the youngsters themselves, are dealing with issues inconceivable a few summers ago. Riches and all the attendant temptations are thrown at them before they have started shaving regularly. It’s not their fault....

He(Rahul Dravid) is the intelligent man’s guide to what a sportsman ought to be – modest, dependable, well-educated, with the gift of grace under pressure and a perspective that is adult. He is the comfort...

We’re pretty confident, we’ve played good cricket in Adelaide in the past and had a good win there this year, I think it suits our style of team.

If you took everything I’d ever found hot in a girl and piled them into a corner, you’d get Cricket Hunt standing in a corner.

How and Fulton have been selected after showing consistent form in domestic cricket and New Zealand A.

We had great cricket in two last two series because of the quality of pitches. Unfortunately, the wickets in the first two Tests here have not lived up to the expectations of an India-Pakistan contest.

But Langer’s mendacity, and Parker’s possible cowardice, is less interesting and salient for our purposes than the question of whether or not Gilchrist, too, was lying: ‘I didn’t hear anything—absolutely nothing.’ These were his words...

Sachin’s straight drive is like fired bullet from most efficient gun.

Olivia and James, Joe and Tom had a field day playing cricket in the garden of the villa against Uncle Fred, with a hard rubber ball, … Freddie is brilliant with kids.

The idea of a BCCI channel is still alive and we are also planning an inter-city cricket league in a day-night format.

Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from...

The President complimented both the teams for playing excellent cricket. He also appreciated both the teams for playing cricket in its true spirit and displaying themselves as true ambassadors of their respective countries.

Rob Green needed to get the long barrier out, didn’t he?

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen

Tendulkar’s genius is of an order that the average player cannot comprehend. Dravid’s greatness is not just comprehensible, it is reassuring