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"I'm walking away with a heart full of gratitude - for the game, for the people I shared the field with, and for every single person who made me feel seen along the way. I'll always look back at my Test career with a smile." Virat Kohli #cricket

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"As I step away from this format, it's not easy - but it feels right. I've given it everything I had, and it's given me back so much more than I could've hoped for." Virat Kohli #cricket

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"I have always loved cinema more than the cricket. I don't think there is any harm in taking a different field." Angad Bedi #cricket

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"It has been an absolute honour to represent my country in whites," Rohit Sharma #cricket

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"I've always said it's just a game of cricket. The only pressure I get is when I feel I've let the team down." Moeen Ali #cricket

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"I just want that someone in their 50s or 60s, when they talk about Brian Lara, they say 'I enjoyed watching that guy playing cricket." Brian Lara #cricket

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"When I am off the field, I am the calm, very quiet kind of easy-sailing ocean, and then when I am on a hot streak with a cricket ball, I can be the most disastrous waters you have ever been in." Dale Steyn #cricket

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"I love cricket but I like being away from it as well." Alastair Cook #cricket

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"We have a plan for Jof (Archer), It's week by week and he's ticking everything off. We're desperate to get him back into red-ball cricket and Test cricket." Luke Wright #Cricket

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"We will be working together very closely but on match days she'll have the reins to go and do what she does best, which is to lead by example." Charlotte Edwards (On new England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt) #cricket

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"I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer." Joseph O'Neill #cricket

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"I don't play golf. I don't like it. It's not a game for me. I know the lads enjoy it and that's their time off. At times it's as if the golf is more important, and that is not true at all. I cannot stress enough that when we're at training, especially Stokes and McCullum, we train hard." Mark Wood

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"Then we come out in the press and we'll say an off-the-cuff one-liner that maybe a group of lads have been talking about, then it's in the press, then it looks like we're Billy Big Boots, above our station. I don't particularly like that. We've got to be respectful." Mark Wood #cricket

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"Sometimes we've been so, how can I say this? Naive, a bit dumb in the things we say in the press." Mark Wood #cricket

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"I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all." John Hodgman #cricket

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"I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn't do in international cricket, but that's how you learn." Virat Kohli #cricket

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"Cricket is 90-95 per cent mental. To score runs, you've got to feel good about yourself." Andrew Strauss #cricket

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"If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt." G. M. Trevelyan #cricket

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"We like to play good, hard, tough, aggressive cricket when we're out in the field." Steve Smith #cricket

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When Charlotte Edwards first played at Lord's in 1997, women weren't allowed in the Long Room. Now, the legendary England captain has her portrait hung in the famous Pavilion 👏

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"I've always wanted to play Test cricket from a young age and that's what you dream about. But you have to make sure you can contribute regardless of the format." Joe Root #cricket

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"Cricket fans all over the world probably have more in common with each other than with their fellow citizens." Romesh Gunesekera #cricket

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"I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing." Sean Astin #cricket

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"My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker." Ronnie O'Sullivan #cricket

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"Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching." Steve Waugh #cricket

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"Cricket had John Arlott, Wimbledon had Dan Maskell, we had Ted Lowe. He was great." John Virgo #cricket

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"I had time with my family, which was great, but I am a cricketer, and once that was taken away from me, it was as though part of me wasn't there." Andrew Flintoff #cricket

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"Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch." Peter Tork #cricket

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"My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin." Desmond Llewelyn #cricket

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"It will be a fantastic opportunity to expand traditional boundaries when it features in the Olympics in the fast-paced, exciting T20 format that should appeal to new audiences," ICC Chair Jay Shah. #cricket

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"It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done." MS Dhoni #cricket

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"I did play other sports growing up. I played cricket and all those other things, but I was just so much more talented in golf, and that's all I wanted to do." Jason Day #cricket

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"YORKSHIRE BEAT WORCESTERSHIRE BY 504 RUNS Worcestershire 105, needing 610 to beat Yorkshire Yorkshire's record victory on runs - by well over 100. Worcestershire's record defeat on runs - by well over 100. An absolute obliteration by the Tykes." BBC Sport #YorkshireCCC #cricket

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"The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket." Peter O'Toole #cricket

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When I've been playing a lot of golf it takes a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing. Ricky Ponting

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England's all-time leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson is to be given a knighthood for services to cricket. Anderson, 42, retired from Test cricket last summer with 704 wickets, making him the most successful pace bowler in the format. #sirjimmyanderson

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"I'm really looking forward to joining the Hampshire team this summer, The club has been a leader within the women's game for the last 10 years and I'm excited to have the opportunity to join the team at such an exciting time for domestic cricket in England." Ellyse Perry #cricket

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"As an athlete there are times in your career where, during a game, any decision you make seems to be the right one. The bowler bowls where you want, you don't have to think and you are so 'in the zone' that you are not aware of anything else around you." Isa Guha #cricket

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"Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket." Kapil Dev #cricket

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"Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches." Harold Pinter #cricket

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"Harry is not only an outstanding cricketer, but also has an excellent cricketing brain and a clear vision for both teams that will help drive us towards winning more series, World Cups and major global tournaments." Rob Key #cricket

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"He's been part of our succession planning for some time, albeit this opportunity has come slightly earlier than expected," Rob Key (On Harry Brook becoming England white ball captain). #cricket

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"Obviously batting like in a Test match in T20 cricket's not really going to work. But you still want to stick to the strengths that are important to your game - for some guys it's power, for some guys it's touch and it's gaps." Kane Williamson #cricket

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"I am obsessed with cricket. But to be honest, I prefer the IPL format to test matches." Shilpa Shetty #cricket

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"I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice." Tom Jones #cricket

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So here we are. The best day of the year. In a few short hours, the umpires will lead the players out onto the field, hand the bowler that beautiful, shiny red ball and say “play” Cricket from now until the end of September! Have a wonderful season everyone. PLAY!!!

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"In a way, I think it's quite selfish to even consider him, because he will say yes, because he is Ben Stokes. He will do whatever England ask him to do. Just don't ask him, just let him be." Michael Vaughan (On Ben Stokes being white ball captain) #cricket

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"There is fitness testing next week and I'll judge for myself where they are at, I don't want people talking about the fitness of the England women's cricket team. Fitness is a non-negotiable. We should be fit." Charlotte Edwards #cricket

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