I love playing five days of cricket; personally, I think it’s the best format.
– Joe Root
From a young age I’ve always known my game pretty well and coming from a club like Yorkshire you are generally taught to say what you think. If you don’t say what you think then someone else does.
– Joe Root
I’m not a massive reader, to be honest. I try and fill my time with other things. But I remember getting halfway through a book once. It was ‘The Client’ by John Grisham, which was quite interesting.
– Joe Root
It’s not about how many games we win with me as captain, it’s about us being consistently getting better over a long period of time and looking to be that number one side in the world.
– Joe Root
Make sure you look after people around you and it holds you in good stead going forward in terms of leadership. Look at all the best leaders and they have those qualities.
– Joe Root
Team is all about vision, goal and ambition… It’s about wanting to be the best you can be as a group.
– Mickey Arthur
When I took charge of Pakistan, I stopped and had a look from the outside before making any judgement calls. I got used to the culture because I think that is so important. For you to move a team forward as a coach, you have to understand the culture.
– Mickey Arthur
For Pakistan cricket to stay relevant and strong, the best players have to be available all the time – it’s a challenge faced by everyone, but one that particularly relates to us because of our mainly amateur, pretty random, and certainly too thinly spread domestic structure that feeds the national team.
– Mickey Arthur
I had a meeting with Umar Akmal and discussed exactly where I thought he was. We are looking at the skillset that he brings to the Pakistan team. Obviously, he is a very intelligent player but he knows that he has to conform. He knows that he has got to pass the fitness standards that are required of him.
– Mickey Arthur
Pakistan is a great team to be a part of and to see the emergence of young players is exciting.
– Mickey Arthur
Cricket is not rocket science. Bowlers often get wickets through perseverance, accuracy and being patient rather than trying to blast opposition teams out.
– Andrew Strauss
I think it’s hard for one coach to do all the formats all the time, and there are a limited number of coaches who have done the hard yards already. You can have head and assistant coaches for each squad.
– Andrew Strauss
We know the Victorian way of dealing with death, which was not dealing with it. You’ll never get over it but having the support of a counsellor who has been there hundreds of times is so important, to help you develop strategies to cope.
– Andrew Strauss
I think there will be one overarching coach for Tests and one-day cricket. I think you need one person in control and in charge of that environment. Also it’s important for people to know I am not going to be playing a tracksuited role. The execution of strategy is over to the captain and coach as it always has been.
– Andrew Strauss
I learnt that as soon as you have a negative thought, just push it to the back of your mind. The question is, when it’s you versus 11 others; can you be positive under pressure? That’s what defines winners.
– Andrew Strauss
I’m a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I’m commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.
– Murray Walker
That’s history. I say history because it happened in the past.
– Murray Walker
Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.
– Murray Walker
It all comes down to money.
– Murray Walker
You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
– Murray Walker
As much as you learn to handle failure, you must learn to handle success too, because that’s also important.
– Sourav Ganguly
In 2000 I became captain and stayed till 2005, and this was a very successful time in Indian cricket, so it was a satisfying tenure for me.
– Sourav Ganguly
I used to watch Manchester United a lot when David Beckham was there, but not any more now he’s gone.
– Sourav Ganguly
It’s my one aim, my dream to win a series overseas.
– Sourav Ganguly
I cherish my entire life. I’ve been blessed with a life full of good memories.
– Sourav Ganguly
As a spinner, you need to be very precise in Australia. Every run you give must be on your own terms.
– Ravichandran Ashwin
To be very modest about what is happening in my life and my career over the last couple of years, I did not know if I would go on to play Test cricket when we were in the pandemic, in the lockdown.
– Ravichandran Ashwin
Between 2018 and 2020, I contemplated giving up the sport at various points.
– Ravichandran Ashwin
I have always enjoyed my cricket, be it home or abroad.
– Ravichandran Ashwin
Sometimes when you listen to me on the field, or when you listen to me on the morning of the game, you’d think I am an idiot. I can completely empathise with those who might think so.
– Ravichandran Ashwin