A Quote by Alastair Cook

The captaincy thing is brilliant, and I love it. But I didn't start off playing cricket to captain England. I wanted to score runs and stuff.

Alastair Cook

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Alastair Cook
English - Athlete
Born: December 25, 1984

Ultimately we're playing cricket and we want guys who will score runs and take catches to help England win.

Stuart Broad

I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

Gautam Gambhir

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

Kevin Pietersen

I resigned from captaincy because I wanted the new captain to get enough time for preparing a team before the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

MS Dhoni

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.

Sachin Tendulkar

When I was kid I always wanted to be either the captain of the England cricket team or I wanted to be a river bailiff.

Chris Tarrant

I wanted to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. But I could not.

Inzamam-ul-Haq

It is all about experience. When you are 7-8 years old, you start playing school cricket and score runs; my coaches, from school level to Rahul Dravid Sir now, all those small, small things - the experiences make a difference.

Prithvi Shaw

It is a great feeling of course to have scored so many runs, but that is what I play cricket for: to score lots of runs.

Suresh Raina

Just because you're made England captain, it doesn't mean that you suddenly know everything about captaincy.

Alastair Cook

I have learned a lot playing in domestic first-class cricket: how to score runs, how to counter situations.

Prithvi Shaw

Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are not coming.

Gautam Gambhir

As a captain and as a player I wanted to lead the team well and score runs, because I know the team still depends on me very much.

Mithali Raj

I've always been a bit shy, especially in new situations. But I have that other side in me too. Cricket demands that you grow up fast. Playing in domestic tournaments as an overseas player, you're expected to score runs and bring a lot to the group. And I expect that of myself.