Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.
You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.
One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.
I don't watch cricket very much, but of course I enjoy whenever I see the sport, especially live, because of the energy in the stadium with the fans going crazy.
The most important competition is always the next match.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
It has been a great honour to play for the West Indies, to hold a bat and to spend 17 years in international cricket. That is something I am proud of.
To have Serena in the Wimbledon final, I think, is the hardest match you can have.
I am here to play cricket. No preferences at all. T20, ODI, Test - I just want to perform on every stage and prove my worth as a good bowler.
I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.
Just like how you find players from different backgrounds in Indian cricket team, our Telugu industry is looking for talent, and it doesn't matter where it comes from.
The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
English conditions have changed over the years. Lots of runs are being scored in one-day cricket now in England, pitches are good for batting.
My captaincy model was characterised by two distinctive pillars. Proper identification of talent and then ensuring the young finds play fearless cricket.
But if you have live matches and there is TV coverage, I'm sure you have more viewership because people would love to see women's cricket again on television.
Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.
Playing Test cricket for one's country is the ultimate, but people are enjoying Twenty20 format because everything will be over within three hours.
After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.
A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.
The calmest part of my day is right before a match.
After accepting the captaincy at the beginning of the 1998 season, I immediately set high but attainable goals for the West Indies cricket team and myself.
There are always distractions in international cricket because that's part of being an international sportsman.
An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!
I'm looking forward to playing my first match for Paris.
As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.
I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.
I truly believe that players who tell you they don't feel the pressure of international cricket, of being away from home for months at a time, are lying to everyone and themselves.
I've been a death match fan since I can remember.
When I meditate, I visualize myself after the match as the winner.
The first time I played Test cricket, I did OK because I had no real expectations, I was just going to enjoy it. Then I lost that.
She's a big-hearted girl with hips to match.
The fire first has to be laid before the match can be put to it.
We all know the soil in western India has a reddish tinge. In cricketing parlance it means a ticket to party for the spinners at the start and end of a cricket season.
I am very insecure because that's how I have played cricket. Since Under-14, I was told, 'If you don't perform, you will be dropped.' I have started living with this system.
Every match in the Euro is a dance on a razor's edge.
Cricket, politics, and cinema is what a majority in our country are most passionate about. They have the power to divide the best of friends depending on which side you are on.
I was a middle-order batsman who was too good against spin and hit sixes consistently in Under-19 and Ranji cricket, and I still have the same confidence.
I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
I personally want to play Test cricket, hopefully, when I qualify. It's the pinnacle, a great place to showcase your skills and really rate yourself.
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.
I know the International Cricket Council are very strict about what you are allowed to do and what looks good on TV, but you can't let that take away from your natural game.
I had one injury in pretty much a year of cricket, and it was my first since being in the England team, so I'm very happy to be back, touch wood.
In a relatively short space of time, Hawk-Eye has achieved a major impact in the way cricket is presented and appreciated by fans around the world.
In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.
Obviously, it's tough when you lose a match, but that's how it goes.
Being down match point, it's just not fun.
I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all to play for England, that's for sure.
Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket
I didn't really know how people would take to me, especially at Hobart - it can be difficult having an overseas player who hasn't played any international cricket.
If you think the products don't match what you want from a product, don't buy it.
My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, I have never made a run for me. Records meant nothing. The team was important.
I've spent most of my life watching fast bowlers - initially as a kid on TV and later in the flesh when I started playing top-level cricket.
In one-day cricket, we should not think that we can win easily against any team. There have been examples when big teams have lost to small sides.
Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.
Old Trafford - as a cricket ground, I love playing there. It's a second home for me; I've been going there since I was young. It just feels right there.
As a player, you have to focus on the match and not too much on the surroundings.
You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.
In very few countries I enjoyed cricket more than I did in India. I would always remember the love my team and I got from the fans here.
I love trying to match a really hard expectation.
I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.
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