K. L. Rahul Quotes

I thought I could have breached Brian Lara's 400 runs. When I scored 319, I was unbeaten at 309 but then got out. So I think I could have reached that mark, but unfortunately, I missed it.

Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.

The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.

Ask any batsman what gives him maximum satisfaction. It's scoring runs, whether it's Ranji Trophy or any form of the game. When you get back to your room, knowing that you have scored a hundred, it gives you satisfaction.

Good scores are valuable, but centuries stick in the mind. There are influential people who might not notice a good innings of 60 or 70, but they will react if you get a hundred.

If I get a wicket, I just want to show people that how big that is for me.

I don't think there have been many dull celebrations after any of my hundreds for England. It's been an emotional time for me over the last few weeks. Interpret them as you wish.

I wanted to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. But I could not.

It's a huge honour to play my 100th Test, and I never in my life thought I'll be in this kind of position.

From a purely selfish, batting point of view, I couldn't bat any better than the 2010-11 Ashes and then in India in 2012. That was as good as I could play.

But more than that, I wanted my wife and my family to see how I can actually play this game. They haven't seen me at my best, and I want them to.

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get.

I don't want to put down my work - I'm very proud of the work I've done.

Til the day I didn't play under-19 World Cup, nobody ever celebrated my birthday. And the moment I played for Indian team, my family got excited and ordered and cut a cake for me in front of 40-50 family members.

Lord's is such a special place and to get my first and now my 500th wickets here is something that will live with me for a long time.

April 2nd is a memorable moment of my cricketing career.

It would obviously be a big deal to reach 500 wickets but I don't see it as a target or goal, it's not something that has driven me on.

The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.

I fell in love with scoring a lot of runs. I never felt 50 or 100 were enough.

I certainly do not want to be remembered as a good captain who perhaps didn't contribute with the bat as much as he might have done.

It's very hard to reflect properly when you're still playing but the hundreds one - when I got my 23rd in Kolkata - felt the most special because it broke a benchmark that had stood for a very long time. It felt good to do something no Englishman has done before.

It was a great feeling to score a century on Test debut. I got a lot of confidence.