Cricket Format Quotes

Test cricket gives ultimate satisfaction that I don't think any other type of cricket does due to the nature and longevity of it.

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

Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.

I think my general view of day-night Test cricket is that there is definitely something there that the ICC can keep looking at because it moves the game forward with timing and allows more people to come and watch.

I like back-to-back Tests at the end of a series, without any county game in between. We know county cricket has no bearing on Test cricket.

In white-ball cricket the conditions do vary, but throughout Tests it varies a lot more in a five-day game, and home advantage becomes more prevalent in Test cricket.

I hope that there can be a solution where T20 is still a huge part of the game, especially if young guys today understand what a Test match is all about. To me, you have to learn the game from the grass-roots and then reach the next stage where you can be explosive.

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.

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.

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

I love to play Test cricket; it's the main cricket.

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

I always want to be known as a good Test cricketer. I believe I have the ability to score big runs in the longer format. For that, I know I have to score heavily in whatever opportunities I get.

I love the multi-format series. Within it they've found a way to retain Test matches and England v Australia in the Test arena, they were always my favourite matches to play in.

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

Time has never really been an issue in Test cricket, especially in the modern game where things naturally move quicker than they have in the past.

I wouldn't rule out the idea of four-day Test cricket, if we can get the playing conditions right and the right circumstances it might be a good thing in some parts of the world.

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

Any spinner can change the game. It's been proven in T20 cricket.

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

I think Test cricket is the ultimate form of cricket.

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.

I've never been a massive advocate of international Twenty20 cricket except a World Cup every two or three years, because that gets the best players together.

I have always maintained that bowlers win you a cricket match whatever the format.

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