Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you're going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin.
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.
Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.
A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.
Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket
When I was asked to write a message for your brochure I gladly accepted as I remember my first school tour of England was Wales. The experience proved extremely useful in my development of a cricketer.
Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i. e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.
When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.
Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.
