When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.
When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
Everyone who moves to New York City has a book or movie or song that epitomizes the place for them. For me, it's 'The Cricket in Times Square', written by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams.
Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.
It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.
I played rugby in the winter, cricket in the summer, and for a brief period was on the books at Cardiff City. Athletics was only sports day for me. In fact, I never really liked it. I was never too keen on a sport that didn't have a ball at your feet.
You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
The public want to see people play an exciting brand of cricket.
You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.
Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
There is a growing interest in team ownership and promoting sports beyond cricket in India. I always felt it is important to encourage other sports, especially those that bring communities together and promote active lifestyles to Indian youth.
My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.
I do love cricket - it's so very English.
When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
I love England and I love cricket.
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.
Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.
Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.
I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.
I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.
In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.
In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.
According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
Growing up, dad coached my footy and cricket teams, but that's all he could do for me.
Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units.
I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.
