Cricket Records Quotes

Over the years I have been watching Pakistan when playing against them or with them in county cricket. And they have been brilliant bowlers and batsmen and great individuals.

I have batted well in Tests and always wanted to do well in ODIs, too.

It is my hope that Babar Azam will become a bigger player like Virat Kohli.

I never thought of breaking a record. The only ambition I had was to become the fastest century maker for India, which I did when I broke Azharuddin's record.

Growing up in the '70s my heroes were Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards and Roy Fredericks as a left-hand batsman.

When we used to play, we thought no one can break Sunil Gavaskar's record. No one could think about 50 Test centuries at that time. This is certainly a big knock under the circumstances, better than the 200s and 300s.

I want to play 100 Test matches for England.

If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred.

Some rivalries were personal, some professional. First, the curious case of Gambhir. Oh, poor Gautam. He & his attitude problem. He who has no personality. He who is barely a character in the great scheme of cricket. He who has no great records, just a lot of attitude.

This is a moment I will cherish forever... the first man to score 500 runs.

My best wishes are with Indian cricket in general. I wish each one of our cricketers success at the international and domestic level.

Congratulations to Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first person ever to score 50 test hundreds, absolute superstar

I love cricket. My all-time favourite is Sachin Tendulkar, without a shadow of a doubt.

I think, apart from Sir Garfield Sobers nobody else has played 20 years in international cricket and 20 years playing at the very highest level and to the very highest standard is an achievement beyond compare.

We never thought that there would be another Sachin Tendulkar. But Virat Kohli has changed this mindset. I think Virat can surpass Tendulkar's records.

Test cricket is the ultimate challenge.

I first got into cricket by watching Test matches on TV and listening to overseas tours on the radio. The sport really grabbed me - and it didn't matter that England weren't hugely successful back then.

Test cricket should be No. 1 for every cricketer.

Jimmy Anderson deserves everything he gets, and even though he is an Englishman I will be delighted for him when he goes past my record and becomes the most prolific fast bowler in Test history.

Cricketers are worried about their milestones, worried that they should score 5000-10,000 Test runs, but I am not fussy.

I admire Sachin Tendulkar for being one of the best role models for young cricketers, and no one in Pakistan even doubts his greatness, as his records speak for himself.

It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket.

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

I have many, many fond memories of Yuvraj Singh. He started under my captaincy.

The only two times we have peaked above world average is when we got to No. 1 in the world in 2011 and when we got to No. 2 in the world in 2004 under Michael Vaughan.