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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 older brother's a cricket groundsman, my other brother's a salesman, and my younger brother's a trader in the City.
Tendulkar is my idol in cricket, and one thing I try to pick up from him is how he carries himself in a humble manner.
The more cricket you play in your head, the less you perform on the field. So let cricket, the sport, be on the field.
We used to go cycling as a family every weekend. I played basketball, cricket, badminton, and was half-decent at them.
When I was kid I always wanted to be either the captain of the England cricket team or I wanted to be a river bailiff.
I was a child who was interested in sports, and represented my school in football, cricket, badminton and table tennis.
The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.
I grew up playing against friends and cousins in the park and it was some of the most competitive cricket I have played.
Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.
From a small age, we used to play a lot of school cricket: 30-35 games in a year in school cricket, then Under-16 games.
India me aap Prime Minister ko ek baar katghare me khada kar sakte hain. Par Sachin Tendulkar par ungli nahi utha Sakte.
Individual don't matter, and we should all work in the best interest of Indian cricket. It should take the centre-stage.
With Test cricket, it's very important that you are bowling at high speed but T20 cricket is a great way to be versatile.
I want to be associated with a show related to cricket as I'm proud of India playing the sport at an international level.
I do love the Ashes and some of my best memories are from Ashes cricket. I just wish we'd played a few more Test matches.
Through county cricket all the way up to international cricket, the individual needs to be responsible for his behaviour.
Whenever I have played a game of cricket, whether it is under-16, under-19, or State level, my approach has been the same.
Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.
Spinners have a main role, whether in the IPL or world cricket. But it's hard to be a legspinner: you have to be accurate.
We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.
Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.
The media attention does not bother me. I am very happy that the media is at least interested in sports other than cricket.
A cricket team is always made up of 11 different individuals and you want to give them enough flexibility to be themselves.
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
When Dad passed away, grandpa took on that mantle of teaching me how to tackle at football or taking me and mum to cricket.
That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.
I like to take wickets and see wickets and chances and I think in T20 cricket you have to risk a boundary to take a wicket.
Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.
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.
Cricket is semi-pro for women in Australia, but the girls work damn hard, and it's credit to them to try and grow the sport.
I got some time off from international cricket so I could come back to India and reflect on what was not going right for me.
One-day cricket is a lot more draining because it's a lot faster. You don't get as much break. You are running a lot harder.
I was a flamboyant player when I started playing First Class cricket. I used to just back my instincts and go with the flow.
Please criticize me, but how can you accuse me of something like fixing a cricket game after all that the game has given me.
I feel proud when a player from Jammu and Kashmir plays for India. This shows cricket has reached all corners of the country.
I don't think there is a need to treat matches with India like a matter of life and death. We need to take cricket as cricket.
I want my bowling to speak for me. In fact, not only my bowling, my batting, my fielding. Overall, I want my cricket to speak.
We all know just bowling won't do in modern international cricket, and we have to contribute with the bat and as a fielder, too.
Cricket has given me everything. If I'm anything today, it is because of the game... where I have given blood, sweat, and tears.
If reality TV is bad, so is Colosseum, so are the gladiators, so are sports. I think cricket is bad. But that's a point of view.
In the cricket world, with a lot of little issues that people are getting in a tizz around, I'm just like: Don't worry about it.
The difference between first-class cricket and international cricket isn't skill, it's attitude and the way you go about things.
Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.
It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players.
I totally enjoyed playing in Australia. I think they play very tough cricket, and the brand of cricket they play is very strong.
My parents were proud of the fact that I was playing cricket, they used to ferry me around during the weekends to play the game.
I think most cricket fans would accept that Dravid and Tendulkar are very different individuals but they are both great players.