1. No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.-Virat Kohli
2. Cricket is a team game. If you want fame for yourself, go play an individual game.-Gautam Gambhir
3. Cricket is basically baseball on valium.-Robin Williams
4. The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.-Mahendra Singh Dhoni
5. A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.-Richie Benaud
6. It cricket requires one to assume such indecent postures.-Oscar Wilde
7. The Test cricket we’ve played over the last few weeks has been of a very high standard.-Ricky Ponting
8. Cricket to us was more than play, It was a worship in the summer sun.-Edmund Blunden
9. Cricket is an international game which is played by a diverse range of cultures and communities. Respect for each other is a key component of the game and racist comments have no place in cricket.-Malcolm Speed
10. Cricket is an art. Like all arts it has a technical foundation. To enjoy it does not require technical knowledge, but analysis that is not technically based is mere impressionism.-C.L.R. James
11. Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.-Ken Doyle
12. A good cricketer never loses his nerve. He just bats on!-Anthony T. Hincks
13. In cricket, you have a sense of sport as it should be played by people who respect each other. They fought fiercely but they were friends.-Peter Kellne
14. Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches-Paul Hogan
15. Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.-Ian Botham
16. One-day cricket is an exhibition. Test cricket is an examination.-Henry Blofeld
17. Cricket now is definitely a professional sport.-Glenn McGrath
18. Cricket is battle and service and sport and art-Douglas Jardine
19. One day cricket is like fast food. No one wants to cook.-Viv Richards
20. Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game.-Queen Anne
21. 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
22. Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.-Neville Cardus
23. Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.-Imran Khan
24. Cricket a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.-Benjamin Mancroft
25. Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.-John Arlott
26. Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you’ve got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat.-Michael Hussey
27. When you play test cricket, you don’t give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.-Donald Bradman
28. Only cricket can make a moment like this so confusing and messed up. Common sense please.-Dave Forrest
29. The cricket’s gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.-David McCord