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May 31, 2025

Whenever you think the game is going away, just bring him. When you have that it's a luxury. It's like Mumbai housing prices - he's that expensive.

Hardik Pandya on why Jasprit Bumrah is neighbours' envy, MI's pride

May 27, 2025

Had dinner in Birmingham, breakfast in Dubai, drove to Abu Dhabi for lunch, took a flight and had dinner in Pakistan.

A little over 24 hours after playing in the England-Zimbabwe Test at Trent Bridge, Sikandar Raza was in Lahore helping Lahore Qalandars win the PSL title

May 26, 2025

I will go back to Ranchi - haven't been home for a long time - enjoy a few bike rides, [take a] couple of months and then decide.

MS Dhoni's future plans don't include retirement just yet

May 24, 2025

I've just bought a puppy and he was being a nightmare, and bit me two minutes before she called me, so I was a bit flustered.

Em Arlott was having a ruff time of it when Charlotte Edwards called to let her know she's been selected for the national side

May 22, 2025

I mean, [Virat] Kohli has just retired, probably Steve Smith.

England debutant Sam Cook is making his wicket wishlist

May 15, 2025

I think the fiercest competitor out of that top four is definitely Kohli. The battles we had were incredible. He's a guy you want to get into a battle with on the field. He stood his ground, and he's obviously a fantastic player as well.

Game recognises game - Jimmy Anderson reckons Virat Kohli was the most competitive of the Fab Four batters

May 5, 2025

Age is just a number. I still feel like I'm 27.

The 37-year-old Andre Russell revealed how old he truly was with an unbeaten 25-ball 57 against Rajasthan Royals in the 2025 IPL

May 2, 2025

They say behind every great man there is a woman, and his wife is a pilates instructor

Varun Aaron explains the secret of Jos Buttler's stable core

Apr 28, 2025

It looked like the dew came in the middle of the game, and then disappeared. One of our lads said, 'I think we've got reverse-dew.'

The IPL throws up new challenges every year and RCB's director of cricket Mo Bobat has discovered another one

Apr 24, 2025

Do we have an RCB player from last time? Play him in the XI straightaway!

Ex-RCB players have been taking their former team apart at Chinnaswamy stadium, and Rajasthan Royals coach Rahul Dravid would like one of them for their Bengaluru game please

Apr 21, 2025

He is not driving, because he is not even 18. He is only pulling

Sunil Gavaskar was in a punny mood during teenager Ayush Mhatre's 15-ball 32 on debut for Chennai Super Kings

Apr 18, 2025

I forgot that I can use saliva. Yesterday when the [team] staff told me, I didn't know that I have to use it.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar needs a bit of time to adjust to the situation where the use of saliva on the ball isn't banned anymore (but only in the IPL)

Apr 16, 2025

I wish to check the bats when I was playing!

Daniel Vettori, the Sunrisers Hyderabad coach wishes they used to check the dimensions of bats, as in IPL 2025, back when he was a bowler

Apr 15, 2025

I might make some of the players get up nice and early but I'll be up late, don't worry about that

Ricky Ponting, coach of Punjab Kings, who defended 111 against Kolkata Knight Riders, knows where the party's at

Apr 15, 2025

Even today I'm wondering why I'm getting the award, Noor bowled so well...

MS Dhoni can't understand why he's always Player of the Match

Apr 9, 2025

I've never been more motivated to score runs.

Mitch Marsh is loving the Impact Player rule in the IPL and not having to bowl or field

Apr 7, 2025

I'll try to get my toes out of the way!

Tim David lays out his strategy for how he'll play his former Mumbai Indians team-mate Jasprit Bumrah

Apr 1, 2025

I was absolutely bricking it before the warm-up game [in New Zealand], just knowing that I'd have Joe Root standing to my right, Brooky and Duckett waffling and giggling at each other, and Stokes at mid-off looking at me.

Jordan Cox was all nerves in the sole match he played before injuring his thumb and putting the brakes on his England Test debut last year

Mar 30, 2025

I am not sure there're too many egos amongst bowlers these days. You've got to hang on to dear life.

Mitchell Starc knows the pecking order in T20

Mar 30, 2025

I can't tell you that, right? It falls under anti-corruption

Shardul Thakur turns the tables on a media questioner when asked about how he thinks the Lucknow pitch might play during the 2025 IPL

Mar 28, 2025

I really hope we see them get 300 this year, just not against us

Mitch Marsh really wants to see Sunrisers Hyderabad break IPL records, but not when Lucknow Super Giants are at the receiving end

Mar 26, 2025

Think I'm going to head to the Lotto store and buy one [lottery ticket] after this game.

Australian opener Georgia Voll is keen to try her luck after being dropped six times by New Zealand fielders in the third T20I in Wellington

Mar 25, 2025

Life's good, mate! No bowling!

Mitch Marsh is more than happy to pack away his allrounder hat for the IPL

Mar 24, 2025

Has anyone been able to control him in so many years?

Suryakumar Yadav on Mumbai Indians' plans to keep MS Dhoni in check

Mar 24, 2025

I straightaway called Abhishek [Sharma] and asked, 'What are you guys expecting, do I have to come and hit each and every ball?'

Given Sunrisers Hyderabad's takedown of IPL records, Ishan Kishan wanted to know exactly what he was in for when he was bought at the auction

Mar 12, 2025

All the time we talk about preparations, and when an event comes and we flop, then we talk about surgery. Fact is, Pakistan cricket is in ICU because of incorrect decisions.

Shahid Afridi doesn't hold back in his criticism of Pakistan's poor showing at the Champions Trophy

Mar 9, 2025

I don't think I can say it on camera but I was sh***ing myself.

KL Rahul on guiding India's chase in the Champions Trophy final against New Zealand

Mar 2, 2025

I haven't played golf in a long time so I'm looking forward to that.

South Africa may have a fruitless flight to Dubai if India don't make the semis, but Marco Jansen sees it as an opportunity to practise his swing

Feb 28, 2025

If anything, we are lacking confidence. There's a perception out there that we're a happy-go-lucky, arrogant type of team: we couldn't be further from that.

Brendon McCullum says we've got England all wrong

Feb 21, 2025

I may take him [Axar Patel] for dinner tomorrow.

Rohit Sharma on making up to Axar Patel for dropping the catch that would have got the spinner his first international hat-trick

Feb 19, 2025

He doesn't bowl too many variations to us in the nets. He bowls just one type of delivery. Maybe, he doesn't want to show his variations even to us.

India captain Rohit Sharma on facing mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy in the nets

Feb 19, 2025

All 15 players of my team are the Pakistan captain.

Mohammad Rizwan wants all the Pakistan players to take equal responsibility at the Champions Trophy, just so long as they don't all turn up at the toss

Feb 17, 2025

I was actually a missing piece for the WPL as a whole.

Deandra Dottin responds after being asked if she was the missing piece for Gujarat Giants, who had controversially ruled her out days before the start of the 2023 WPL

Feb 13, 2025

We are going to the Champions Trophy to become champions.

Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto has only one thing on his mind.

Feb 8, 2025

I am watching Prison Break on Netflix. It gives you an idea of how to get out of difficulties.

Rashid Khan on what he's been doing during his time off

Feb 7, 2025

Who's had the better lunch, the bowlers or the batters?

Commentator Niall O'Brien wonders how Ireland and Zimbabwe will fare in the second session of day one in Bulawayo

Feb 6, 2025

He eats a triple-decker pizza before every game on the bus. And a Coke. That's not a joke.

Aiden Markram provides insights into Sunrises Eastern Cape team-mate Marco Jansen's dietary habits

Feb 5, 2025

The bus in which we were travelling, even the bus driver told me that you need to bowl at the fourth-fifth-stump line to Virat Kohli, and then he will get out.

Railways bowler Himanshu Sangwan on the advice he received to become a household name

Feb 3, 2025

My little nephew Ted, he's four years old, we played backyard cricket the other day. He came in with Bumrah's action, and the nightmare continued.

Mitchell Marsh tells a two-sentence horror story at the Australian Cricket Awards

Feb 1, 2025

I told him, just enjoy yourself because you only get 10,000 runs once in your life and some people don't get it at all.

Usman Khawaja helped put things in perspective for his batting partner Steve Smith in the Galle Test

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