Brian Lara Quotes

You need different skills to do well in 50-overs cricket. You need completely different skills to do well in Test cricket. You need different skills to do well in T20 cricket. It is not the same.

Twenty20 is must for cricket. Without T20, cricket cannot survive.

No matter what, Test cricket will survive. I've always said Twenty20 would be popular but there will be a place for Test cricket.

I think T20 cricket has become the flagship spectacle for women's cricket.

It's good to draw spectators to the grounds, but I don't think Twenty20 will help you produce good Test cricketers.

Traditional cricket has gone out of the window. It's gone. T20 cricket has changed the game.

Playing Test cricket for one's country is the ultimate, but people are enjoying Twenty20 format because everything will be over within three hours.

T20 is fast-paced and a wonderful vehicle to attract wider audience. On a technical level, it probably has impacted Test cricket.

If you're playing Test cricket you could bowl 20 overs in a day. I could play about five T20s in that space.

With Test cricket, it's very important that you are bowling at high speed but T20 cricket is a great way to be versatile.

I love playing five days of cricket; personally, I think it's the best format.

One-day cricket must be taken with equal importance to Test cricket.

I love to play Test cricket; it's the main cricket.

T20 is good entertainment. It is a game you need. People go to watch it. You have to be careful how far you let it go.

The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works.

Obviously, international cricket is the main cricket you want to play, especially Test cricket.

I love the multi-format series. Within it they've found a way to retain Test matches and England v Australia in the Test arena, they were always my favourite matches to play in.

T20 is an unpredictable format, so you cannot rule out any team's chances.

I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.

Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.

These days you can play almost 100 Test matches in six years.

We have to understand that the five-day format has its own uncertainties, unlike ODIs or T20s. In ODIs, you know that you have to field for 50 overs only, while in Test cricket, there may be a situation that a team might bat for one-and-a-half to two days.

It is easy to get carried away in this Twenty20 era and think Test cricket has to be entertaining all the time.

Having to play Test matches for a month and then switch to T20s in five days is not easy, but that's the kind of challenge I love to face.

Test cricket should be No. 1 for every cricketer.