But eventually it is a game of cricket.

To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn’t forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of...

While it is always special to play your 100th game, the focus really is on playing good cricket and trying to win.

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn’t.

Batting is like another language for Sachin, he always answers his critics by this language.

Sambit Bal may be right that this is a scandal the IPL needed. It certainly brings fans face-to-face with the tangled reality of their amusement, based as it is on a self-seeking, self-perpetuating commercial oligarchy...

He didn’t quite manage to get his leg over.’ – about Ian Botham, though admittedly on the cricket pitch at the time

How did you know? That she wasn’t the one for him?” Now he’s staring at his hands, slowing rubbing them together. “They just didn’t have that . . . natural magic. You know? It never...

I left home and tried to live the life of a hermit, but I was still fighting myself. I went to England and worked as a chainman on the road. It was better therapy than...

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

Well, all cricket invites attention.

I will concentrate on one-day cricket only because too much cricket is affecting my overall performance.

The only good thing about that decision, Gatt, is that I’ll get tea before you.

I made a deal with sharks. I don’t swim near them and they don’t play cricket.

It will tough for both the teams, it will be an interesting day’s cricket.

It gets your blood going, the adrenaline is pumping, you’re in a fight. To me, that’s what test cricket is all about.

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.