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What are the main essentials of wicket-keeping?
Really, There are two - an ability to sight the ball
early and then to catch it, whether it comes from a
delivery, a hit, or a throw-in.
Alan Knott
Book: Stumpers's View
Charisma seems to me a limited asset to a captain.
Mike Brearley
Book: The Art of Captaincy
All cricketers are cricketers, none the less so for
not being 'first-class, which is no more than a
statistical distinction.
John Arlott
Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business,
especially that between England and Australia.
Sir Donald Bradman
Collectively and individually fielding is largely a
matter of thoughts and discipline.
I. A. R. Peebles
Frequently the assertion is made that wicket keepers
are born and not made. Yet anyone with average ball
sense can make a fair job of it if he is prepared to
work hard.
Alan Knott
Book: Stumpers's View
Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a
batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in --
luck plays an important part.
W.G. Grace
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell
the truth about himself.
Sir Neville Cardus
The great thing in hitting is, not to be
half-hearted about it; but when you make up your
mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended
upon that particular stroke.
W. G. Grace
No professional drunkard has ever made a great
professional cricketer, nor ever will.
Quid
Book: Jerks in from Short Leg
Don't practise on opponent's ground before match
begins. This can only give them confidence.
Sir J. M. Barrie
Book: Allahakbarries C.C
Coaching which is good, simply sharpens up a player,
as wide travel and experience will.
A.E. Knight
Book: The Complete Cricketer
Coaching is often very necessary, but great care
mjust be taken not to curb a young player's natural
shots, which are often his chief scoring strokes.
Leslie Ames
Book: Close of Play
I should like to say that good batsman are born, not
made; but my long experience comes up before me, and
tells me that it is not so.
W.G. Grace
Book: Cricket
In the game of cricket it has always been customary
to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
I.A.R. Peebles
Book: Talking of Cricket
Of the many facets presented by the game of cricket,
most men will agree that batting is the one most
distinctly enjoyable and instinctinvely delightful.
A.E. Knight
Book: The Complete Cricketer
It is as well for us to remember when we are
watching the best batsmen that, however easy it may
all look, they do not achieve their success without
toil and sweat, and that there are times even with
the greatest when they must seem to themselves, as
we humble performers so frequently seem to
ourselves, to be batting with a broomstick, with a
barn door for a wicket.
E.W. Swanton
Book: Denis Compton: A Cricket Sketch
Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is caled
a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a
batsamanfacing a bowler supported by ten fiedsmen
and observedby two umpires to ensure that his error
does not go unpnishied.
John Arlott
Book: An Eye for Cricket
A run is more difficult to make than no save,
because batting is in its nature a far less certain
and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.
K.S. Rangitsinhji
Book: The Jubilee Book of Cricket
I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers
and writers upon cricket do, in watching the
bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not
anticipate events.
W.G. Grace
I feel loosening exercises are a tremendous help to
me in taking diving catches, especially the
stretching ones for my shoulders and arms.
Alan Knott
Book: Stumper's View
It is impossible for forward play to be quite as
safe as back play, because there must be a moment
when the ball is out of sight.
K.S. Ranjitsinhji
Any fool can play forward, but it is only the good
player who can score off forceful back strokes.
A.C. Maclarn
Book: The Young Batsman in The Cricketer
The hardest testsin batting are play fast bowling on
a fiery wicket and spin bowloing on a sticky one.
Sir Pelham Warner
A missed chance must not be allowed to affect your
performance. Once it has gone nothing can be done
about it. Despondency canbe transmitted to the rest
of the side and your 'keeping could be below par for
the rest of the innings. So if you make an error,
pick the ball up quickly and return it to the the
bowler or close fielder as though nothing had
happened.
Alat Knott
Book: Stumper's View
A batsman who cannot make runs on turf after rain
and sun and sind is only half a batsman.
E.H.D. Sewell
Book: Well Hit Sir
Cricket, however, has more in it than mere
efficiency. There is something called the spirit of
cricket, which cannot be defined.
Lord Tennyson
Book: Sticky Wickets
Cricket has got to have the courage of its own
aristocracy.
Dudley Carew
Book: To The Wicket
Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of
my world, and the two are not so far apart as many
aesthetes might believe.
Don Bradman
Sachin Tendular is the hardest batsman I've ever had
to bowl to because he judges the lenght a lot
quicker than anyone else.
Shane Warne
During my 21 years of play cricket, I have never
been approached by anyone or being offered a bribe.
Imran Khan
Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to
India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
Imran Khan
I bowl my best when I am fittest and the best way to
get fit is to bowl. That's how you get your rhythm.
You cannot really find a rhythm by bowling in the
nets.
Brett Lee
Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I
have trials as soccer player ... but it was cricket
which became my choosen profession.
Ian Botham
Cricket was my reason for living.
Herald Larwood
The cricket player is not an actor on a stage,
merely a personality to be lost in the creation of
poet's brain or a playwright's mind, he is himself
the poet and the playwright.
A.E. Knight
Book: The Complete Cricketer
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom,
healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good
fellowship.
W.G. Grace
It always surprises me that some people think a
world cricketer should give 100 per cent of his
effort and concentration every minute he is playing
cricket, and then not relax and enjoy himself after.
They seem to have strange ideas about how curfews
and conferences and controls should fill his time
between play. But if a cricketer does not learn
early in his life which things do him good and which
are bad for his cricket, and for him, then he does
not belong in a world-class team.
Sir Garfield Sobers
It does not always follow that a player's behaviour
on the field is a true index of his character off
it.
Alan Gibson
It is not altogether an advantage when a side
becomes heavily dependent on one man, however
gifted. If he succeeds, heinspires his fellows
beyond their normal abilities; but if he fails, he
is apt to depress them far below what they can
really do.
Alan Gibson
Figures are not entirely conclusive especially
short-term figures, but it is difficult to avoid
their significance if a man produces them year after
year against every type of opponent and under all
conceivable conditions.
Sir Donald Bradman
Book: Farewell to Cricket
I have known cricketers who stood head and shoulder
above everyone else at net practice, but rarely were
able to do themselves justice in a match. Their
mental approach to the game was unequal to their
natural physical talents.
Sir Leonard Hutton
Book: Just My Story
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