Playing Conditions Quotes

If you are playing in the right conditions, there is always motivation to bowl fast. If you are playing in the wrong condition then you want to be a batsman.

I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in.

I think the players like to play with sunny days and warm weather.

I don't want it to be comfortable for players to step in, stroll about and walk away with three points. But there won't be any old-school flat balls, cold tea or wet floors.

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.

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.

When my ban was relaxed I began playing club cricket. Imagine, for a person who had played at Lord's, to play with a club team who didn't have proper kit against another club team in Lahore.

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.

Growing up, I played on matting wickets. I always enjoyed the pace and bounce and somewhere that has a big role or big effect on your game.

The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is - don't.

The Gabba is not a frightening place to play.

Artificial pitches are just one more condition for us, like sun, wind or snow; we should be able to deal with such conditions.

But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.

The coach put me in goal, and back then, we were playing on bone-hard ground: red ash; we even trained on black ash, which was worse. That's not easy for a goalkeeper. My mother was always taking out her sewing kit for the countless holes in my training pants. For a long time, I had to buy my own gear.

I have had the experience of playing in Sharjah, and it worked well for me.

Every wicket you play on is different.

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

I know I did not play an 11-a-side match until I was 12; even beyond that, we tended to play smaller-sized matches on smaller pitches.

If you don't have bounce on the pitch, even a spinner cannot come handy.

I watch the ball, and I just play. I have always said that I don't feel there's a big difference between the three formats. It is just a mindset, applying yourself to the wicket and conditions, and that's always been the way that I have played.

A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England

For me, watching football played in the snow is abominable, as in snowman.

With the new ball, against any bowler, it's important to see off the first few overs.

There are very rare occasions when you get a good wicket to bat on, but whatever wicket you get, you have to play at least 20 overs for your side.