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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

I have played cricket on my own terms.

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.

Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.