A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.
In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly
To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.
Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.
Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.
The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.
My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another
Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.
He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.
It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.
I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back
Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.
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