Shikhar Dhawan Quotes

To have healthy competitions among players for places in the team is good for Indian cricket and the game in general.

IPL is pure sport. The glitz and glamour is just 15 per cent. 85% is actually professional, hard cricket.

IPL is such a tournament that you end up knowing about the strengths and weaknesses of everyone because you are playing with so many people in the same side.

If I play all the IPL games the whole season, I do get a bit tired towards the end.

It is always a good thing that whoever is getting a chance in the playing XI has been performing well.

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

I am obsessed with cricket. But to be honest, I prefer the IPL format to test matches.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I don't really focus on these things - on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field - stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

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

I played at Lancashire when Glen Chapple was 40 to 41 and he was as good as he ever was then.

IPL is good for limelight and making money.

Players like Ravindra Jadeja, Yusuf Pathan, Warner, Glenn Maxwell were noticed at IPL first. It is a platform for players all over the world.

Playing for India was a memorable journey, and I tried to make it more memorable for my team mates and the Indian cricket fans. I believe that I was reasonably successful in doing so.

When I play for Delhi in Ranji Trophy, I try to help Delhi win, and when I play IPL for KKR, I aim to make KKR win.

You want the world-class players playing at the World Cup, and you want them to do themselves justice.

Day-to-day training with world-class players, there is no better feeling than that.

Yuzvendra Chahal, India's leg-spinner, is another IPL teammate. He's also a great guy and very funny.

I want to be a great player someday.

The best players of the world play in the IPL, and to bowl to them in T20 cricket isn't easy.

Just being in the whole environment around the IPL, around the people that you ge to play with and against means it's going to be really, really good.

I wanted to be a cricketer. But I was not skilled enough to be a national-level cricketer.

Unless you are a good bowler, you won't be in the India A side.

IPL is something... it's where we polish our skills and be in form, but ODI and T20I are totally different.

It was a great feeling to be included in the Indian Test squad. I always wanted to be a part of the Indian Test squad, and it was more like a dream come true for me.