Top 100 Quotes About Cricket
#1. My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
Karisma Kapoor
#2. I saw that vigil now as necessary, a prerequisite for my insides to harden and cure just like the willow of a cricket bat must cure to be ready for a lifetime of knocks.
Abraham Verghese
#3. Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup
#6. It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.
Libba Bray
#7. The feel of her own pillow, and of her own blankets reassured her. Both were familiar. And being tired was familiar too, it was a solid bodily ache, like the tiredness after too much jumping or cricket.
Daphne Du Maurier
#8. Poetry is more valuable than cricket, but Bradman would be a fool if he sacrificed his cricket in order to write second-rate minor poetry (and I suppose that it is unlikely that he could do better).
G.H. Hardy
#9. All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid's eyes
Matthew Hayden
#10. No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.
Virat Kohli
#11. The most appealing side-effect of Sri Lankan cricket from where I stand, shuffling words, has been linguistic.
Romesh Gunesekera
#12. Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.
Frank Woolley
#13. Cricket is very simple ... you play till you can sustain.
Kapil Dev
#14. Now she has lived long enough to know that cutting up women is a sport older than cricket but just as popular and equally full of obscure rituals and intricate rules that everyone seems to know except her.
Mohammed Hanif
#15. The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
George Bernard Shaw
#16. Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.
Stephen Fry
#17. Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.
Kapil Dev
#18. Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.
Preity Zinta
#19. You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.
Murray Walker
#20. Some people are like dogs, Ranga, with wagging tails. Whilst thou are happily watching their wagging tails they are happily biting thou with their sharp teeth. Beware of wagging tails, Ranga. Especially in cricket.
Ian B.G. Burns
#22. Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.
Ian Botham
#23. Lola?" Cricket is on his knees at the side of my bed. I feel it. "I'm here," he whispers. "You can talk to me or not talk to me, but I'm here.
Stephanie Perkins
#24. I've spent many dark nights trying to forget about Cricket. It doesn't feel fair that he could have forgotten about me.
Stephanie Perkins
#25. If I have a son and he decides to play cricket, I will want him to bat like Sachin Tendulkar.
Brian Lara
#26. It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in the chimney.
George R R Martin
#27. I'm proud of what I've achieved in cricket, as once I didn't think I was good enough.
Shane Warne
#28. During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
Imran Khan
#29. I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
Ian Botham
#30. I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
Sachin Tendulkar
#31. I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
Simon Schama
#32. 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.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
#33. If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?
Prince Philip
#34. India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy.
Vikas Swarup
#35. Who is he?" "Jiminy Cricket," I said. "He hangs around to make
Robert B. Parker
#36. Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.
Donald Bradman
#37. First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure. Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.
Barry Richards
#38. Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.
Murasaki Shikibu
#39. Sourav has got a huge role to play in Indian cricket and its success. I hope certainly that he gets back in there because he is a hell of a good player and he still has got too much to offer to Indian cricket.
Allan Donald
#40. Love can flow like the river, fly with the bird, sing with the crickets at night. It is in the energy of the river, the flight of the bird, the song from the cricket. There is nowhere where love is not.
Janet G. Nestor
#41. Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.
Harsha Bhogle
#42. I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.
Tom Jones
#43. Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.
Harsha Bhogle
#44. I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.
Virat Kohli
#45. The problem is there's still a big kid inside me who likes to have fun. I am passionate about my cricket and I love my family, but I'm also a kid and maybe I need to grow up ... And maybe I don't.
Shane Warne
#47. I have played cricket on my own terms.
Kapil Dev
#48. There are 2 types of captains in World Cricket. One is MS Dhoni and the other are the all others.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
#49. I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.
Preity Zinta
#50. 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.
Ricky Ponting
#52. In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.
Virat Kohli
#53. The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
Peter O'Toole
#54. You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.
Harbhajan Singh
#55. Put football instead of cricket and she could have been me. She could have been Arwa, or Deena or any of the girls I grew up with here in Cairo in the Sixties. What difference do a hundred years - or a continent - make?
Ahdaf Soueif
#57. The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.
Shane Warne
#58. Are you alone?" "No, I've got the local cricket team with me ready to have hot sex on your kitchen table.
Anonymous
#59. Even if my grandchildren don't remember the fact that I scored 10,000 runs in Test and ODI cricket, I am confident that they will remember that Sachin Tendulkar used to be my team-mate.
Rahul Dravid
#60. Yet while Owllwin was arrogant, he was also humble enough to admit when he had made a mistake. Perhaps it was his sheer clumsiness that kept him so humble: the first time he spoke to Cricket was in the great dining hall, and he brought down six tables five minutes after.
Ash Gray
#61. Jadeja has been sent by N. Srinivasan to play cricket and then go back ... to Dhoni.
Ravi Shastri
#62. Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket
Virender Sehwag
#63. There's always pressure in test cricket we just need to stick to our toes.
Kevin Pietersen
#64. I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
#65. There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.
Peter Roebuck
#66. To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.
Bertrand Russell
#67. Virat Kohli is the PRINCE of Indian cricket.
Ian Chappell
#68. But I don't know a word of German, I've had no experience, I've got no testimonials, and I can't play cricket.'
'It doesn't do to be too modest,' said Mr Levy. 'It's wonderful what one can teach when one tries.
Evelyn Waugh
#69. I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well,
Kapil Dev
#71. He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.
Charles Dickens
#72. When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.
Usain Bolt
#73. No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.
Woodrow Wyatt
#74. You can choose where your feet take you, man. That's Dominic again, who's like my own little Jiminy Cricket, Portuguese fisherman style.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#75. So why did he do it?"
Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistake. He fell in love.
Stephanie Perkins
#76. It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
Gautam Gambhir
#77. Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.
Tony Greig
#78. Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
Gagan Narang
#79. Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
Ted Dexter
#80. I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.
Glenn Turner
#81. Why talk of the team when our Cricket Board is like an exclusive club with members being there for years on end? If they can stay on without performing, the players too feel they can stay in the team without too big a performance.
Sunil Gavaskar
#82. The Prince of Calcutta. Two of his special qualities are his intelligence and articulation, both of which have helped him immensely in the world of contemporary cricket.
Geoffrey Boycott
#83. In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless ... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.
Neville Cardus
#84. Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.
Donald Bradman
#85. Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.
Harsha Bhogle
#86. I don't really focus on these things - on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field - stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.
Virat Kohli
#87. Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.
Neville Cardus
#88. Don't mistake your Masters kindness for a weak spirit. He has killed more men than you've probably ever known in your young life. There are different types of evil in this world , Cricket. Some,more openly displayed then others
M.S. Willis
#89. 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.
Harbhajan Singh
#90. I delayed my father's funeral because of cricket.
Virat Kohli
#91. A few months later Miss Mitten was killed by a milk van in Hobart, across the road from a cricket oval. To the twins there was hidden justice in the fact that the milk van had been reversing.
Arundhati Roy
#92. I have entered the sports equipment business with 'Bhajji Sports.' I am applying for ICC clearance so that cricket bats with 'Bhajji Sports' logos could be used for international matches. In domestic circuit, the Punjab team is already wearing Bhajji Sports dresses for the Ranji Trophy matches.
Harbhajan Singh
#93. Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.
Henry Chadwick
#94. Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
Kapil Dev
#95. My job is to perform, enjoy cricket and thank God for whatever he has given me.
Suresh Raina
#96. A bloke's bowling at 150kph trying to rip the fingers off your arms or probably even worse. It gets your blood going and the adrenalin pumping. You are in a fight. And to me that's what Test cricket is all about.
Justin Langer
#97. I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
Usain Bolt
#98. I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.
John E. Walker
#99. I like to play test cricket. It is really challenging, because you need to really score runs, stay in the wicket and continue for five days.
Kumar Sangakkara
#100. There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
Louisa May Alcott
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