Gautam Gambhir Quotes

I always found one-day cricket a lot harder. I had to change my game.

Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.

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.

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

Even though I am someone who played one-dayers more, I have equally prepared hard for the T20 format too.

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

Test cricket is still important, so are ODIs, but T20 should be there too because of the crowd factor.

If you are going to raise youngsters for Test cricket that don't have the experience, you can't stick them into T20. You've got to teach them first how to play Test cricket, and when they're good enough for Test cricket and if they want to play both formats, then they can.

In Test cricket, you have to be adaptable.

You have to just adjust to the conditions quickly because there is a big difference in 50-over and 20-over cricket, and if you back yourself, you will do well.

In my opinion Test cricket is the best version of this game. It tests you mentally, physically, emotionally.

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

I know Test cricket is more about endurance. T20 is more about innovating, creating, and the energy at the wicket.

Pressure is the biggest single factor in Test cricket.

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

Guys are playing a lot of limited overs cricket and not making that adjustment when it comes to the longer version and pay a price for that.

When I watch Twenty20 cricket, there's a different satisfaction. That hundred you get in six hours is a very satisfying feeling. A real triumph of skill. I don't quite see that in the 20-over game - or the 100-ball game.

You have to be good wherever the fight goes, and that's how I try to be.

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.

I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's not impossible, but it is hard to be able to race every single race, and day after day as well.

Test matches to me are the caviar compared to the fast food stuff. Having the ability and the constitution to triumph over five days is what it's all about.

I've been working on all my aspects of my game.

People deal with the concentration needed to do well in a two-hour race in different ways.

Every player has different skills.