Kapil Dev Quotes

I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.

When you're a kid, you dream about playing cricket for a living, playing for your county and then your country.

People complain about too much T20. But the only recognised T20 in Europe is the Blast so if we are going to grow the game outside the U.K. it has to be everywhere.

The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.

The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.

Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.

The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

What's more important is, rather than looking at it from a commercial point of view, what we have to make sure is, where there's existence of the sport, it keeps on increasing there, and at the same time, you look at some of the other countries where there's the prospect of playing cricket.

We want cricket to grow for kids, and for families to come and watch.

It's good to draw spectators to the grounds, but I don't think Twenty20 will help you produce good Test cricketers.

I never thought I'd be a senior player in a county side, let alone the England side. When you break into a county side, that is your aim, so it's an incredible feeling to have achieved that with England.

Every young cricketer from our county dreams of playing for Yorkshire and going on to represent England.

England's full of cricket tradition. I follow the game there hugely.

The thing about international cricket is that you never really get to know the guys you play against. The T20 leagues allow you to actually know an individual.

There is a huge gap between international and domestic cricket. That gap needs to be lessened. Our domestic circuit needs to step up.

We think it is a really important part of your journey, as an international player, that you come in and you want it to feel like it's the pinnacle of the game. That you want to come back into that environment. You don't want to think, 'Well, I'd much prefer playing for Sussex,' or your county.

I have never tried to hide my ambition to work in county cricket one day.

I am following the IPL. I think it would be great for the women's game, creating more competition and showcasing the world's best players from different countries. It would also be a stepping-stone to women's cricket becoming professional.

It's important to make sure your players have the mindset that playing international cricket is still the ultimate form of cricket.

All of us follow men's cricket because we want at some point that women's cricket would be up there.

It's no secret that women's cricket needs India performing on the global stage, and any male support is welcome - with key voices like Sachin Tendulkar stating that women's cricket is critical to the future of our game, hopefully people will listen.

I played at school then signed up with Leicestershire when I was 18, for £20 per week. In those days cricket wasn't a full-time job; in the winter you had nothing to do.

It was only after I made my Duleep Trophy debut did I think I had a realistic chance to play for India. I scored a double hundred, and I realised that I had the potential to play for my country because I played the best bowlers in the country at that time.

I learned a lot of things that made me be a better player and have more of a variety on the pitch.

I want to improve cricket at the district level because lot of hardworking players come from districts. We have produced so many great players, but now we don't have players in the Indian team. My intention is to work hard for the game of cricket.