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.
Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.
Actually nobody can be perfect in cricket. Everybody makes mistakes. It is important to learn from your mistakes and correct them.
It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh. We came here without some key players but I must say our young players showed a lot of characters in the series which will help Sri Lanka cricket in the future.
I never coached Sachin Tendulkar, I gave him gentle advice when he asked for it.
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.
The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.
Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.
Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.
Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.
2-0 is a cricket score in Italy
I think, apart from Sir Garfield Sobers nobody else has played 20 years in international cricket and 20 years playing at the very highest level and to the very highest standard is an achievement beyond compare.
Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical. ’ This sort of thing is incredibly annoying. People can tell you the supposed characteristics of a Gemini or a Taurus and will spend five days watching a cricket match, but cannot find the interest or the time to learn the basics of what they, as humans, are made up of.
You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.
A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.
My job is to perform, enjoy cricket and thank God for whatever he has given me.
A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.
He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.
Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game.
