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You're always under pressure, that's what life is about. That is what playing international cricket or being a professional sportsman is.
Switching from acting to cricket isn't difficult, because I have represented Delhi in the under-19 category. Plus cricket is in my blood.
It was an old cricket coach who started calling me Fred - as in Flintstone. There are far worse things to be called in the dressing room.
I admire Indian cricket because of the way the sport is run there and how the money they earn is invested back into the game and players.
If there can be films about why hockey (and not just cricket) is cool, there can be a film or two about the virtues of honest, hard work.
I resigned from captaincy because I wanted the new captain to get enough time for preparing a team before the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.
The most important thing especially in domestic cricket is to enjoy each day there, be nice to people around you and never get frustrated.
There is no point playing in the IPL when I have retired from international cricket. I did not want a youngster to miss out because of me.
Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.
My senior school didn't play football. It was a rugby and cricket school, and as I was on a sports scholarship, I was forced to play rugby.
There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.
I had to unlearn cricket to learn hockey. It is easier for someone who is not a sportsperson to pick up hockey. They just have to learn it.
In international cricket, the atmosphere changes, and the interest level is higher, but for a cricketer, it is still a game he has to play.
To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.
I have no real desire to play Test cricket, and the reason I lost this desire was because I was not selected consistently for Test matches.
In 2000 I became captain and stayed till 2005, and this was a very successful time in Indian cricket, so it was a satisfying tenure for me.
As cricketers we're judged on the average we have from being a 21-year-old who's just come into international cricket to the day you retire.
I like back-to-back Tests at the end of a series, without any county game in between. We know county cricket has no bearing on Test cricket.
My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In The Library.'
Guys are playing a lot of limited overs cricket and not making that adjustment when it comes to the longer version and pay a price for that.
I used to come to school with my school bag hanging on one shoulder and the cricket kit on the other. It was pretty cool and I felt special.
I've spent most of my life watching fast bowlers - initially as a kid on TV and later in the flesh when I started playing top-level cricket.
I enjoy playing each and every format, but for me, Test cricket is at the paramount level because I feel everything is tested at that level.
I'll never forget Cricket Australia telling me I was too soft and I'd been too soft with the team... I kind of didn't know what they wanted.
It's not an issue for me if I captain England in 42 Tests or in 50. It's a question of what is best for the team in Test and one-day cricket.
By starting a wrestling league, I hope to provide for wrestling the kind of visible and glamorous platform that the IPL has given to cricket.
The captaincy thing is brilliant, and I love it. But I didn't start off playing cricket to captain England. I wanted to score runs and stuff.
I respect Test cricket a lot. Once I got into the Test team, I learnt so much about international cricket and realised it's not so different.
Growing up, my education about Test cricket came from dad's video of the 1981 Ashes series - and Ian Botham's incredible match at Headingley.
I am here to play cricket. No preferences at all. T20, ODI, Test - I just want to perform on every stage and prove my worth as a good bowler.
High-intensity training works well for cricket because we spend long periods waiting around and then have to perform sudden sprints or dives.
Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.
If I wasn't doing this, I'd be working in a chippy. Cricket can change your life. It can teach you a lot about discipline and life in general.
Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.
The Sydney Cricket Ground is my favourite ground in the world, my home ground, and growing up in the bush all I wanted was to play at the SCG.
English conditions have changed over the years. Lots of runs are being scored in one-day cricket now in England, pitches are good for batting.
It's all you hear on a cricket field - 'Knock his head off, knock his head off.' Cricket has gone too far. It shouldn't be posturing, abusing.
I was helped by the fact that my dad is a cricket fanatic and that my three brothers and two sisters all played. It's just part of our family.
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.
As a young kid in the beginning, I myself did not know that there was women's cricket in India or that there is an Indian women's cricket team.
Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
It's always nice to get a call-up when in decent nick as you can have that confidence coming into the game. It's what county cricket should do.
To represent your country is the ultimate honour, and to play Test cricket for India will be the ultimate fulfilment of my cricketing ambition.
I spent a lot of time with Rahul Dravid, working on my game and chatting about cricket. He helped me a lot in the games I played for India 'A.'
In Twenty20s, you have to bowl a lot fuller, especially at the death, and you've got to be mindful of what you're doing. But it's still cricket.
When I came to Under-19, I played a lot of cricket and got a lot of experience. Then India A as well, and Ranji Trophy - it just keeps going on.
At cricket, I was mainly a bowler and tried to bat. I hit the odd four or six and then got out! In athletics, I was mainly triple jump and 200m.
Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.
I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.
That happens on a cricket field. People have a go at each other. That's fair, that's fine. It's called Test cricket. It's not a day in the park.