Quotes on cricket game

There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. Snap out of it. Recognize your strengths, work on your weaknesses.

Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning. Maybe when you watch it on TV, it looks easy. But it is not. You have to use your brain and time the ball.

There is a certain element of power into it but not completely. It is like 80 percent timing and 20 percent power. Why do I need power hitting when I can clear the ropes with timing? They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times. But when you are captaining, you can say so; you have to lead from the front and make sure the team follows the direction you want them to.

They have no knowledge of how it works, no respect for it. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me. This might happen and this might not. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realize the real value of life. Fantastic job. I really loved what you had to say, and more than that, how you presented it.

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How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

When I was 15, I went on a cricket tour of Zimbabwe with my school. My defining memory of it was stroking a semi-tame lioness at a game reserve. I grew up on a farm, so I felt I had an affinity with animals, and when it put a paw out, I thought I'd connected with it.

But its claws came out and nicked my leg. Then I did the most stupid thing: I ran. Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them. Indians are great lovers of cricket, they have always been that as far as I can remember - great followers of the game and have knowledge about the game. To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play. 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.

But cricket was no mere game. Cricket was important. Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death. No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him. Wretched game, cricket, keeping romantic youths out in the sun when they should be indoors, applying balm to the foreheads of feverish young maidens. It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports.

These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game ; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business. I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.

Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges.

We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat. Now, give me my robe and put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket. There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else. Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

In sport, there is always room for improvement. Whenever I see my innings against the West Indies or Australia, I think, 'Maybe, I could have done this better or should have changed that.

He played the long game as if he was playing the short game, looking to entertain the crowd and paying absolutely no heed to the calibre of the attack, the state of the pitch or even the situation of the match.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches. Bond went back to room and poured himself two fingers of bourbon from his bottle and switched on the television while he waited for Delmont. He watched a game of baseball uncomprehendingly - the Senators versus the Royals - thinking that it made cricket seem exciting.

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

All Rights Reserved. It is far more than a game, this cricket. But eventually it is a game of cricket. For the Indians, cricket is not a game, it's a religion.