Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
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.
Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.
The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
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.
The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
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.
In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline.
Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.
The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding
Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
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.
I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I felt that this player is playing with a style similar to mine, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...his compactness, technique, stroke production - it all seemed to gel!
Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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.
I've never got to the bottom of streaking
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