A Quote by Bhuvneshwar Kumar

It always gives you pleasure when you score runs in Test cricket. — © Bhuvneshwar Kumar
It always gives you pleasure when you score runs in Test cricket.
I wanted to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. But I could not.
Does it make a difference if I score 8000 or 10,000 runs in Test cricket? Not in anybody's life.
I like to play test cricket. It is really challenging, because you need to really score runs, stay in the wicket and continue for five days.
I always want to be known as a good Test cricketer. I believe I have the ability to score big runs in the longer format. For that, I know I have to score heavily in whatever opportunities I get.
To win Test matches consistently you've got to take 20 wickets - yes, you've got to score runs but if you can't bowl a team out it doesn't matter how many runs you score.
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.
It's not always about scoring runs when it comes to Test cricket. There are times and circumstances when you've got to save the match.
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.
One-day cricket is about aggression and flair, but Test cricket is a different ball game. One has to struggle through the hard periods initially and then look on to get a respectable score on the board.
If you look at cricket per se, if you didn't have T20 cricket, Test cricket will die. People don't realise. You just play Test cricket, and don't play one-day cricket and T20 cricket, and speak to me after 10 years. The economics will just not allow the game to survive.
Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
Test cricket gives ultimate satisfaction that I don't think any other type of cricket does due to the nature and longevity of it.
If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score runs, and I've always managed to turn it around.
If you are going to raise youngsters for Test cricket that don't have the experience, you can't stick them into T20. You've got to teach them first how to play Test cricket, and when they're good enough for Test cricket and if they want to play both formats, then they can.
There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
No matter what, Test cricket will survive. I've always said Twenty20 would be popular but there will be a place for Test cricket.
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