Good players practice till’ they get it right…great players practice till’ they never get it wrong : Margret ann on August 8, 2007

Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket. – Saina Nehwal

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.– Virat Kohli

Cricket is a game played by 11 fools and watched by 11,000 fools – George Bernard Shaw

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.– Virat Kohli

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.– Neville Cardus

If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.– Kapil Dev

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.– Imran Khan

Life is like cricket

Don’t lose your wicket

try to get century

but never forget your ‘boundary’

even if you are run out

never become mood out

because God is the third umpire.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.– Shane Warne

Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game.– Queen Anne

I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it’s obviously really important for all of us to remain fit – and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.– Harbhajan Singh

Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I’m happy to eat and breathe normally. I’m happy to have my life back.– Yuvraj Singh

My job is to perform, enjoy cricket and thank God for whatever he has given me.– Suresh Raina

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.– Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Cricket is an ancient pastime; it ripened sweetly, it has endured nobly.

The face of the team are the people who’re playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.– Gautam Gambhir

Cricket was my reason for living.– Harold Larwood

But eventually it is a game of cricket.– Sachin Tendulkar

I bowl so slowly that if I don’t like a ball I can run after it and bring it back – J.M. Barrie

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.– Harsha Bhogle

Cricket is the only sport in the world where you are absolutely horrible at something and you still need to go out and do it.– Harsha Bhogle

Cricket as a passion is distinctly contagious.– David frith

Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.– Ian Terence Botham

May Cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.– Sir Donald George

I’m proud of what I’ve achieved in cricket, as once I didn’t think I was good enough.– Shane Warne

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.– Paul Hogan

I always breathe cricket.– Kapil Dev

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.– Sachin Tendulkar

We’re simply interested in playing good cricket.– Shukla

It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures – Wilde

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity – Shaw

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.– Paul Hogan

Yuvraj Singh is one of the best batsmen to watch in world cricket when he’s in form. He is ego personified. Yuvraj doesn’t just hit the ball, he lets it rebound off his aura.– Jarrod Kimber

Far from all resort of mirth, Save the Cricket on the hearth.– John milton

A gun is no more dangerous than a Cricket bat in the hands of a madman. – Duke of Edinburgh Philip

I tend to believe that Cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth. – Harold Pinter

There is a widely held and quite erroneously held belief that Cricket is just another game. – Prince Philip

If there is any game in the world that attracts the half- baked theorist more than Cricket I have yet to hear of it.– Frederick Sewards

Many continentals think life is a game, the English think Cricket is a game. – George Mikes

In those days, before it became scientific, Cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis! – GM Trevelyan

It is far more than a game, this Cricket.– Sir Neville Cardus