Fielders Quotes

Ball-tampering has happened before. Bowlers and fielders have found different ways to get the ball roughened up on one side.

I do love the Ashes and some of my best memories are from Ashes cricket. I just wish we'd played a few more Test matches.

All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

Sometimes offense wins. Sometimes pitching wins.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

Standing at the end of your run with the ball in your hand preparing to bowl the first ball of an Ashes series is an amazing feeling.

In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.

Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

I think scoring runs in the Ranji Trophy is a bit easier than in T20s because the fielders are always inside the circle at the start of the innings and look to attack. So if you push in the gap you will get runs. At the start it is not quite difficult, once you settle down it becomes easier.