Garfield Sobers Quotes

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

Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.

You need different skills to do well in 50-overs cricket. You need completely different skills to do well in Test cricket. You need different skills to do well in T20 cricket. It is not the same.

I respect Test cricket a lot. Once I got into the Test team, I learnt so much about international cricket and realised it's not so different.

No matter what, Test cricket will survive. I've always said Twenty20 would be popular but there will be a place for Test cricket.

Test cricket is still important, so are ODIs, but T20 should be there too because of the crowd factor.

If you are going to raise youngsters for Test cricket that don't have the experience, you can't stick them into T20. You've got to teach them first how to play Test cricket, and when they're good enough for Test cricket and if they want to play both formats, then they can.

If you're playing Test cricket you could bowl 20 overs in a day. I could play about five T20s in that space.

Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.

My dream is to play Test cricket.

Representing England has always been a privilege and my decision to take a break from Test cricket at the end of the home summer was made to ensure that, hopefully, I can do it for a lot longer.

One-day cricket must be taken with equal importance to Test cricket.

Alex Hales has tightened up his game from South Africa and learned about Test cricket. It's great when you see someone who doesn't quite nail it, but goes away and works away at it, come back a person who understands more about Test cricket.

Obviously, international cricket is the main cricket you want to play, especially Test cricket.

Before I made my Test debut, I had played nearly nine years of first-class cricket.

I want to play Test cricket until I die, seriously.

It was a great feeling to score a century on Test debut. I got a lot of confidence.

Test cricket should be No. 1 for every cricketer.

I'm expecting big things from our bowlers, from Peter Siddle, who plays the enforcer role, Stuart Clark, Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee when he gets fit again. In batting, there's Phil Hughes, whose already done well for Australia and scored hundreds for Middlesex.

I want to play 100 Test matches for England.

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

My biggest concern is that Test cricket and Twenty20 cricket are competing too much. They should be complementing each other and the more they clash the more damaging it will be for cricket.

Opening the batting in Test cricket, facing up to fast bowlers looking to do their worst with a new, hard ball is incredibly tough. You have to be brave, single-minded and prepared to work very, very hard.

I'm a bit undercooked when it comes to keeping in Test cricket, but I've had a lot of experience in T20 and ODIs for my country, and my keeping has improved a lot.

When I watch Twenty20 cricket, there's a different satisfaction. That hundred you get in six hours is a very satisfying feeling. A real triumph of skill. I don't quite see that in the 20-over game - or the 100-ball game.