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Quotations on Cricket 23 Quotes Found I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall! I do love cricket - it's so very English. 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. I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for. Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession. Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket. When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today. 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. I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery. The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes. My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin. Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game. A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket. I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either. When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well. If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong. When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great. I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there. I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself. Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport. Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch. With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude. Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players. |
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