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I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want
Sep 30, 2025
The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.
I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I felt that this player is playing with a style similar to mine, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...his compactness, technique, stroke production - it all seemed to gel!
Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline.
A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick
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.
There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa
Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
The first time you face up to a googly you're going to be in trouble if you've never faced one before
Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
I've never got to the bottom of streaking
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.
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.
That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another
Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk
I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back
Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.
I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.
I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly
A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.
It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand
Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.
Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator
The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding
In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
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