Cricket Statistics Quotes

Even with Yorkshire I had 19 fifties before I got my first hundred.

I loved playing at Lord's - I ended up with 26 wickets at 11.50 from three Tests there. Maybe the wicket, because of the slope, was perfect for my style of bowling.

If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred.

It's runs for batsmen which is the criteria for selection and similarly, it is wickets for bowlers which are important.

In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

Does it make a difference if I score 8000 or 10,000 runs in Test cricket? Not in anybody's life.

If you look at English cricketers since the turn of the century, less than a handful have better records away from home than at home. So if everyone in our team is significantly worse away from home, the likelihood is the team as a whole will be significantly worse.

You don't think of these things when you play. When you retire, you look back and see that my Test average outside Asia is 40, and it is 49 overall. If I can change something, I'd like to change that average outside Asia. I tried as hard as I could outside Asia, but I couldn't do that.

Runs are important, don't get me wrong, but it will be wickets that I will be judged on.

It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket.

These days you can play almost 100 Test matches in six years.

I have one regret that whenever I look at the list of world's leading scorers, I don't see any Pakistani who has scored 10,000 Test runs; even I couldn't do it, nor Muhammad Yousuf.