Top 1200 Cricket Match Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I want to thank all my team-mates as well as the opponents in red ball cricket. It has been a privilege to play with and against them.

There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.

I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events.

I admire Indian cricket because of the way the sport is run there and how the money they earn is invested back into the game and players.

I got some time off from international cricket so I could come back to India and reflect on what was not going right for me.

In the IPL the batters have to come at you, whereas in Test cricket they can sit on you for a full session if they want and if the pitch is dead there is nothing you can do about it.

In tournament cricket, with a new opponent each game, I think you actually need to play to your own strengths more.

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

I was helped by the fact that my dad is a cricket fanatic and that my three brothers and two sisters all played. It's just part of our family.

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

Misery is a match that never goes out.

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

In one-day cricket, two-three overs can make a difference, if you concede extra runs or cannot score enough in that period.

We all have to meet our match sometime or other.

Each match I play is the most important one yet.

We need to be always prepared for every match.

A cricket team is always made up of 11 different individuals and you want to give them enough flexibility to be themselves.

I have never played cricket for selfish reasons like scoring 800-900 runs on flat tracks to make a comeback.

It is always pressure out there when you are favourite for the match.

I've always wanted to play Test cricket from a young age and that's what you dream about. But you have to make sure you can contribute regardless of the format.

I am so passionate about Pakistan cricket that I would never ever put myself in a position where there will be a conflict of interest.

Whenever I go through any sort of bad patch, I remind myself that part of the game of cricket is God testing you.

I think most cricket fans would accept that Dravid and Tendulkar are very different individuals but they are both great players.

The most important thing especially in domestic cricket is to enjoy each day there, be nice to people around you and never get frustrated.

Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

Religion is very important to me. One of my aims is to try to show that you can have faith and play cricket. There can be a lot of negativity and misunderstanding of Islam.

Normally I don't sleep much during a Test match.

The stats suggest that I'm not a dasher. It doesn't mean I can't play the shots, but when you find a method in four-day and Test cricket that works for you, you stick with it.

When we're not trying to kill each other with spells, we just sit in in Daniel's dressing room watching cricket games on television.

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

Cricket is semi-pro for women in Australia, but the girls work damn hard, and it's credit to them to try and grow the sport.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

I dont have good luck in the match points.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

In 2000 I became captain and stayed till 2005, and this was a very successful time in Indian cricket, so it was a satisfying tenure for me.

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

IPL is pure sport. The glitz and glamour is just 15 per cent. 85% is actually professional, hard cricket.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.

Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

It was an old cricket coach who started calling me Fred - as in Flintstone. There are far worse things to be called in the dressing room.

It did help having a lot of exposure to international cricket at such a young age. That showed me what I need to do to be successful at that level.

It’s hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it’s all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.

Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.

For sure, my sneakers gotta match my jacket.

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.

Since my international debut in 2014 the miles on the clock have probably crept up and Test cricket is the level where the pressure and scrutiny are greatest.

I'm boring but I just love a wrestling match.

I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks" or strategies for working with audio files, and then discovered that the same tricks could be applied to video files, or really, any type of data. Previously I made many different kinds of music. I did some work as a composer of film scores. In that role, my task was to create audio to match and deepen the visual. In my work now, the role is often reversed: I have to create images to match and deepen the audio.

There is a lot of talk about how Twenty20 has changed batting techniques in Test cricket. But it has also had an impact on bowling.

To people who don't take women's cricket seriously, I'd say: just watch a game first, and then make your judgement.

You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.

I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and made the wickets fall.

Being chief selector has been the most challenging role of my cricket career, as I was heavily criticised for my decisions, and I couldn't respond much.

It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.

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.

I think I didn't win a match for one, one-and-a-half years.