Cricket was my reason for living.

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

Cricket was my reason for living.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

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

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units.

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

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.

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

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

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.

Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.