Pithy remarks and quotable quotes. Wordsworth takes the best statements of the week and packages them into one exciting feature. From quotes that help you delve further into the psyche of players to acerbic barbs from incensed cricketers to remarks that are just downright hilarious, we have them all. They may not quite be "from the mouths of babes and sucklings," but they are just as interesting.
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April 4th week
I’ve killed myself! It is a nice wicket to bat on and I was set.
Still I played that shot. I can never forget it. You don’t get
such opportunities in international cricket regularly. - Sourav
Ganguly on his soft dismissal in the first innings of the second
Test.
When I bat in the middle, I feel as if God is there batting it
out for me. It composes me, stabilises me and focuses me in the
crease. - Carl Hooper.
Being flexible is the key to good captaincy. And for that, the
Prince of Kolkata has to remember that he is the captain of
India. - Sunil Gavaskar on Sourav Ganguly's captaincy at Guyana.
Believe you me. At this stage in my career, I don’t really pay
attention to critics. If you listen to people you wouldn’t do
anything in your life. This is not about answering critics
anymore. This is about me trying to make the best of a God-given
talent and doing the best that I possibly can do. - Carl Hooper
I definitely think we miss Anil Kumble. It's a little bit hard
for a man of his calibre to sit out of the game and I really feel
sorry for him, but that's the way things go sometimes. - Javagal
Srinath on the dropping of Anil Kumble from the second Test
At present, he is the best batsman of the world, undoubtedly. I
might have won more matches for the West Indies than he has won
for India, but no other batsman in the world is as consistent as
he - Brian Lara on Sachin Tendulkar
You mean the nick he had at the beginning of Hooper's innings? I
don't think even the best wicket-keeper in the world would have
been able to catch that. - Sourav Ganguly on Carl Hooper's early
inside edge that brushed Deep Dasgupta's gloves.
You should not allow the wicket-keepers to open the innings in
Tests. It is inhuman. - Geoffrey Boycott on Deep Dasgupta's role
as wicket-keeper/opener.
A lot of people seem to think we are a very poor team. That is
not true at all. We have a lot of very talented players and we're
not scared of any team in the world. - Carl Hooper
My jaw was throbbing a bit, but I took a few painkillers and had
to bat on because, at that point of time, we couldn't have afford
my leaving the field. It wouldn't have been right. - Rahul Dravid
on getting hit en route to 144 not out.
Basically this series will be won by the team making fewer
mistakes. So you can't support anyone. - Geoffrey Boycott, when
asked which team he supported in this series.