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Cricket Quotes in English For Students: Cricket is one of the most popular games worldwide. No other game has seen as much craze and fan following as this one. Playing cricket requires a lot of physical stamina and good presence of mind. Numerous aspiring cricketers enroll at various cricket academies each year. However, only few among them are able to make it big in this profession. It takes a good amount of professional coaching, hard work and practice to get selected in the teams that play cricket at state, national and international level.
Types of Cricket Matches
There are different types of cricket matches played at national and international levels. Here is a look at some of the popular types of cricket formats that form a part of different tournaments:
Test Cricket:
This type of cricket match is played for the longest duration of time. It is played over a span of five days. It is played in innings and consists of a total of four innings. In each of these innings one team bats and the other bowls / fields. Since test cricket is played for four innings, each team gets a chance to bat and bowl twice during the match. The team with the highest score in both the innings wins the game.
It is said that test cricket is the ultimate test of a team’s performance.
One Day International (ODI):
This match is played for a fixed number of overs between two teams of international status. The game is mostly limited to 50 overs per team. The team that bats first sets a target score. The other team chases the target. The team that manages high score among the two emerges winner. Each bowler in this cricket format is allowed to bowl for a maximum of 10 overs.
These matches are also referred to as Limited Over Internationals (LOI).
Twenty 20:
This is the shortest and most exciting cricket format. Each team plays for a total of 20 overs. The one with the highest score wins the game. All the other rules of the game are the same as the ODIs. Twenty20, also known as T20, has received immense appreciation owing to its short and crisp matches. The game begins and ends quickly and hence the players need to be on their toes throughout the match.
Cricket Quotes in English For Students And Children
- Cricket was my reason for living. ~ Harald Larwood
- But eventually it is a game of cricket. ~ Sachin Tendulkar
- Cricket is basically baseball on valium. ~ Robin Williams
- I do love cricket – it’s so very English. ~ Sarah Bernhardt
- You can cut the tension with a cricket stump. ~ Murray Walker
- Village cricket spread fast through the land. ~ G. M. Trevelyan
- It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures. ~ Oscar Wilde
- The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket. ~ Ian Botham
- Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down. ~ Ted Dexter
- I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup. ~ Jeremy London
- A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it. ~ Richie Benaud
- Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun. ~ Edmund Blunden
- Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia. ~ Ted Dexter
- “You might not think that’s cricket, and it’s not, it’s motor racing. ~ Murray Walker
- I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. ~ John E. Walker
- Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game. ~ George Mikes
- The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes. ~ Imran Khan
- A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself. ~ Neville Cardus
- I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people. ~ Hansie Cronje
- In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now. ~ Frank Woolley
- I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery. ~ Thomas Keneally
- Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket. ~ Frank Woolley
- Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. ~ Robert Mugabe
- I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth – certainly greater than sex, although sex isn’t too bad either. ~ Harold Pinter
- Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base – in both senses – greed ~ John Fowles
- Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth! ~ John Milton
- Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball. ~ Patrick Leigh Fermor
- When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war. ~ Gen Maxwell D. Taylor
- The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world…This is how it has worked for me. ~ Sourav Ganguly
- Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia. ~ Donald Bradman
- I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler’s hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events. ~ W.G. Grace
- What are the main essentials of wicket-keeping? Really, There are two – an ability to sight the ball early and then to catch it, whether it comes from a delivery, a hit, or a throw-in. ~ Alan Knott
- A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding. ~ K.S. Rangitsinhji
- Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline. ~ I. A. R. Peebles
- Frequently the assertion is made that wicket keepers are born and not made. Yet anyone with average ball sense can make a fair job of it if he is prepared to work hard. ~ Alan Knott
- It is impossible for forward play to be quite as safe as back play, because there must be a moment when the ball is out of sight. ~ K.S. Ranjitsinhji
- The hardest tests in batting are play fast bowling on a fiery wicket and spin bowloing on a sticky one. ~ Pelham ‘Plum’ Warner
- The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke. ~ W. G. Grace
- I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so. ~ W.G. Grace
- A batsman who cannot make runs on turf after rain and sun and sind is only half a batsman. ~ E.H.D. Sewell
- Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman’s innings i.e. before he gets his eye in — luck plays an important part. ~ W.G. Grace
- It’s a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it’s got great tradition – Australian cricketers just love tradition – and it’s been a really pleasant day. ~ Matthew Hayden
- Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe. ~ Donald Bradman
- A cricketer’s life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship. ~ W.G. Grace
- I bowl my best when I am fittest and the best way to get fit is to bowl. That’s how you get your rhythm. You cannot really find a rhythm by bowling in the nets. ~ Brett Lee
- Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled. ~ Imran Khan
- When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong. ~ Geoffrey Boycott
- Cricket, however, has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined. ~ Lord Tennyson
- A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket. ~ Andy Pick
- Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they’re both very good units. ~ Matthew Hayden
- Cricket the world over, I don’t think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer. ~ Tony Greig
- I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent. ~ Frank Woolley
- 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. ~ Sachin Tendulkar
- I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result. ~ Sachin Tendulkar
- If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong. ~ Sachin Tendulkar
- If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. ~ G. M. Trevelyan
- Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket. ~ Henry Chadwick
- Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players. ~ Frank Woolley
- One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We’ve got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it’s one ruthless game after another where we can play well. ~ Matthew Hayden
- My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important. ~ Sachin Tendulkar
- Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession. ~ Ian Botham
- 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. ~ Sachin Tendulkar
