Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup
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Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.
Max Walker
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
Sachin Tendulkar
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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.
Andy Pick
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
ManBlameCricketWrongPersonGo
Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.
Steve Waugh
CricketGameThoughtLovedCoaching
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.
Rahul Dravid
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Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
Robin Williams
BaseballCricketBasically
I have always loved cricket since childhood.
Nani
ChildhoodCricketLovedAlwaysSince
The most appealing side-effect of Sri Lankan cricket from where I stand, shuffling words, has been linguistic.
Romesh Gunesekera
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I always breathe cricket.
Kapil Dev
CricketBreatheAlways
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.
Joseph O'Neill
CricketAmericaYouWantPossible
Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.
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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.
Denis Norden
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During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
Imran Khan
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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.
Sunil Gavaskar
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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.
Ian Botham
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At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.
Suresh Raina
YourselfCricketNewSkillsHard
You cannot keep doing the same things. According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role.
Harbhajan Singh
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To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.
Shane Warne
SimpleMeCricketGamePlayGo
Cricket was my reason for living.
Harold Larwood
CricketLivingReason
If you ask anyone around the cricket grounds, they will say I always sign loads of autographs and thank the ladies for lunch and try to behave in the right way.
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I have always maintained that bowlers win you a cricket match whatever the format.
Gautam Gambhir
WinCricketYouAlwaysWhatever
A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
Richie Benaud
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