Indian cricket, and the youngsters themselves, are dealing with issues inconceivable a few summers ago. Riches and all the attendant temptations are thrown at them before they have started shaving regularly. It's not their fault. It's no one's fault. That is the marketplace. Inevitably, though, it can distract attention from the long struggle towards mastery. Cricket does not give itself away; it expects players to apply themselves, to think and study and seek. It plays tricks, too, pretends that sixes and slower balls and the other shortcuts matter. Cricket sets traps, flatters players and calls them kings when they are barely princes.
Peter RoebuckStichwörter: india cricket 2010 cricket-in-india indian-national-cricket-team
The only good thing about that decision, Gatt, is that I'll get tea before you.
Graham GoochStichwörter: humour tea gluttony cricket england-in-pakistan-1987-88 mike-gatting shakeel-khan umpires-cricket
He has played some outstanding innings in the past, and I've got no [sic] confidence whatsoever that he'll come back and play very well in the near future.
Andrew StraussStichwörter: cricket 2010 england-cricket-team misspeaking alastair-cook
Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he was one of the worst flyhalves he can remember. This did not prevent him from having opinions on most things in sport.
His moment of glory came in 1970 when he predicted—correctly as it turned out—that Griquas would beat the Blue Bulls (then still the meekly named Noord-Transvaal) in the Currie Cup final. It is something for which he has never been forgiven by the powers-that-be at Loftus. Archie has played cricket in South Africa and India and gave the bowling term military medium a new and more pacifist interpretation. His greatest ambition was to score a century on Llandudno beach before the tide came in.
Stichwörter: books 1970 humour autobiography self-deprecation south-africa sport india tennis awards cricket blue-bulls blue-bulls-rugby-union cape-town currie-cup llandudno-cape-town loftus-versfeld-stadium rugby-union wildeklawer-griquas
The Aussies have spent so much time basking in the glory of the last generation that they have forgotten to plan for this one. It's just like the West Indies again; once their great names from the 1970s and 80s retired, the whole thing fell apart.
The way things are going, the next Ashes series cannot come too quickly for England. What a shame that we have to wait until 2013 to play this lot again.
Stichwörter: australia england 1970s cricket england-cricket-team 1980s australia-national-cricket-team the-ashes 2010-11-ashes-series 2011 2010s 2013-ashes-series west-indies-cricket-team
Yuvraj Singh is one of the best batsmen to watch in world cricket when he's in form. He is ego personified. Yuvraj doesn’t just hit the ball, he lets it rebound off his aura.
Jarrod KimberStichwörter: personality egoism cricket yuvraj-singh
Yardy doing a good job out there—1-14 off his five overs so far—but Bangla are letting this drift. The bowling is there to attack, but they're as passive as sleeping sloths at the mo.
Tom FordyceStichwörter: england commentary cricket england-cricket-team bangladesh bangladesh-national-cricket-team michael-yardy
The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
Douglas AdamsStichwörter: play description game ball cricket
He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
Douglas AdamsStichwörter: play description game ball cricket
My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'.
He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.
Stichwörter: art soccer cricket
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