Sourav Ganguly Quotes

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

I think T20 cricket has become the flagship spectacle for women's cricket.

T20 is an unpredictable format, so you cannot rule out any team's chances.

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.

The great thing about T20 is that it only takes one performance. One piece of individual brilliance can win a game and that can change the whole way you approach a tournament.

T20 is a game where you must expect the unexpected.

T20 has become a longer and longer format of the game. It is more than four hours in a lot of parts of the world.

T20 is generally the fun side of cricket. You've got to have a sense of humour. Some days you can turn up and get whacked. Next game turn up, bowl the same and you don't go for many. You have to take it as it comes.

I would say T20 cricket has introduced a more positive attitude in players and led to Tests also being played more aggressively and being more result oriented.

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

Even though I am someone who played one-dayers more, I have equally prepared hard for the T20 format too.

It's Twenty20, anything can happen in the format. It's very difficult to predict and pick a favourite team in this format.

Traditional cricket has gone out of the window. It's gone. T20 cricket has changed the game.

T20 is good entertainment. It is a game you need. People go to watch it. You have to be careful how far you let it go.

The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works.

T20 is fast-paced and a wonderful vehicle to attract wider audience. On a technical level, it probably has impacted Test cricket.

If you are going to introduce cricket to other countries then I think T20 is the format with which to do it - it's a great entry level into the sport and easy to pick up.

In T20, you don't have time to get distracted - it's so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don't actually think about anything else.

I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.

If you know how to score runs, you can perform in any format.

It is easy to get carried away in this Twenty20 era and think Test cricket has to be entertaining all the time.

There is a lot of talk about how Twenty20 has changed batting techniques in Test cricket. But it has also had an impact on bowling.

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

I never thought in my dreams that I would score fifty in One-dayers: not fifty but match-winning knock because One-Day is a kind of format which doesn't suit my batting, as I am not the kind of batsman who can hit big sixes.

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.