Imran Tahir Quotes

Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.

Test match cricket is about individual brilliance.

We have to understand that the five-day format has its own uncertainties, unlike ODIs or T20s. In ODIs, you know that you have to field for 50 overs only, while in Test cricket, there may be a situation that a team might bat for one-and-a-half to two days.

For me, fielding and running between the wickets are two things that are very important. For that, you need to motivate the guys about how much of an effect it will have on the game.

As a team, you try to win - you try to push in as many overs you can - but that's how it's played.

I think a lot when I'm on my own - and much of it is about cricket.

We knew that if we had to win the World Cup, the defensive side of the game had to be better, which means bowlers will have to bowl tight and we will have to field better.

As professional cricketers, we have to ensure that we are battle-ready all the time.

Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.

Cricket is my first love.

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

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

In Test matches, you have to play consistent cricket for a period of time.

I just play an overall game.

I just go out there and try to do what I am paid to do, which is score runs and take wickets.

People like Mo Ali, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Joe Root, they are looking to take attack to the opposition and that's when they play their best.

My uncle used to play cricket. I got used to the game at home. As kids we used to all wonder seeing the bats lying around the house. As we grew older, we realised what the game was all about, and then our interest in the game grew.

I'm grown up enough to realise how to play cricket. I love the game.

Growing up, I played on matting wickets. I always enjoyed the pace and bounce and somewhere that has a big role or big effect on your game.

I was a sportsman and played cricket all my life.

Speed can't always get you wickets.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.

I would have loved to have been a cricketer.