Twenty20 Quotes

In Twenty20 it's not always about straight drives and high elbows. It's amazing how far you can hit the ball. I've always been able to hit the ball far but not consistently like I have in practice over here. I'm enjoying it so much.

It's a huge privilege to be named England Twenty20 captain and form part of a leadership team that I've no doubt will work well together with a great deal of synergy.

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

T20 is generally the fun side of cricket. You've got to have a sense of humour. Some days you can turn up and get whacked. Next game turn up, bowl the same and you don't go for many. You have to take it as it comes.

The great thing about T20 is that it only takes one performance. One piece of individual brilliance can win a game and that can change the whole way you approach a tournament.

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.

It's Twenty20, anything can happen in the format. It's very difficult to predict and pick a favourite team in this format.

T20 cricket is all about using variations, and timing has to be perfect.

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

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

Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

There is a lot of talk about how Twenty20 has changed batting techniques in Test cricket. But it has also had an impact on bowling.

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

If you know how to score runs, you can perform in any format.