Limited Overs Quotes

In T20, even when you are in form and you feel like you are making good contributions, you are going to only face 30 or maximum 40 balls in the position where I bat in the middle order.

T20 in international cricket can almost be paid lip-service at times, with one game tagged on to the end of an ODI series or a long tour - sometimes it can feel like there is no point in playing it.

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

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 want to be a high-order batter in the one-day stuff, to play some long innings rather than just go in and have a swipe.

One-day cricket is about aggression and flair, but Test cricket is a different ball game. One has to struggle through the hard periods initially and then look on to get a respectable score on the board.

The reason why people love T20 is the sixes and fours.

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

If you get out back-to-back in T20s, it proves costly.

It's not easy bowling off-spin in one-day internationals with only five men allowed on the leg side.

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

We don't cover too many draws in Test cricket and its great: it means the cricket is more interesting, more exciting.

Part of the reason I fell in love with cricket was watching fast bowlers. They provide a sense of theatre with dramatic, ferocious spells and that applies as much in one-day cricket as in Tests.

T20 cricket is all about using variations, and timing has to be perfect.

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.

With Test cricket, it's very important that you are bowling at high speed but T20 cricket is a great way to be versatile.

Fifty overs is a long time. It's a good challenge, and you have enough time to show your skills.

I love playing five days of cricket; personally, I think it's the best format.

Sometimes in T20, you need to bowl only one over, and once the captain has given you that one over, irrespective of whether it is good or bad, that one over is out of the equation. That actually helps you, that one over. By the time the batsman figures out what you are trying to do, you get rid of one over.

In T20, there's a time shortage because you've got four overs. In one-day cricket, you relax, and the game goes long, and you only win the game in the last 10 or 15 overs.

In Twenty20s, you have to bowl a lot fuller, especially at the death, and you've got to be mindful of what you're doing. But it's still cricket.

Guys are playing a lot of limited overs cricket and not making that adjustment when it comes to the longer version and pay a price for that.

I always found one-day cricket a lot harder. I had to change my game.

An all-rounder in Tests and limited-overs' cricket is equally important.

T20 is such a format that finishes quickly, and you only have four overs. If there are three bad balls in one over, you will go for runs, and your whole analysis suffers. The team is on back foot because of three balls. So each and every ball becomes very important. It makes the bowler think.