Sa'adi Thawfeeq [Source]
 They played purely for the love of the game, in an age where cricket was accepted as a gentleman's game and was not influenced by money.
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Muttiah Muralitharan [Source]
Maybe I will play one or two Test matches, that's it, and then retire. The Tests against the West Indies will be the last ones I will play. My future is all about playing one-dayers until the World Cup. If I am fit and good I will play until the World Cup and the World Cup will be the end of the road. |
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Sir Gary Sobers [Source]
Lara and Tendulkar seem to have received most of the attention, but I think De Silva deserves better. He is brilliant, but unfortunately, it hasn't been until this year[1996], people have started paying attention to De Silva, because of his country's World Cup triumph. |
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Conroy Ievers Gunasekara [Source]
If a man bumped a ball and it was in slightest danger of the batsman he would say ‘I am sorry about that’. Today if they can’t bowl you out in an over or two then they go for your body. That’s a new technique, everything’s changed. |
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Conroy Ievers Gunasekara [Source]
I was a dreadful smoker at 2 cents a cigarette I could afford it for 50 years. That’s why my lungs are shrunk. |
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Asoka De Silva [Source]
The level of Australian Shield Cricket is akin to any international game. The Australian cricket system has put in the necessary infrastructure to put the Australian inner system work at a very professional level. As a result that very format keeps churning out cricketers of quality. |
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Sanath Jayasuriya [Source]
Since I am not playing Test Cricket, I will have enough time for the politics |
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Kumar Sangakkara [Source]
What an innings it was. He had come close to achieving it twice. I always felt that Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya are capable of doing that. |
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Russel Arnold [Source]
Generally when you find bushes of grass on a pitch it is clearly evident it would behave uneven. |
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Kumar Sangakkara [Source]
Cricket is a funny game. We have had legends and living legends but the game doesn't stop for anyone. |
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Aravinda De Silva [Source]
Scoring 66 in the semi-final against India at Calcutta, in the World Cup in 1996, with 110,000 people there, 100,000 locked outside, and an atmosphere of real pressure. In those circumstances, it was one of my most memorable knocks. Going on to score an unbeaten 107 in the final against Australia was obviously a great moment for us all in Sri Lanka. |
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Sachin Tendulkar [Source]
I have not seen Don Bradman bat, but I have seen Sanath Jayasuriya. I have not seen a better batsman in my cricketing career... |
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Sanath Jayasuriya [Source]
The biggest challenge is to play the 2011 World Cup,Obviously if the team management wants to send me a message they should be clear about that to me, as they have been in the past. I am only thinking of five ODIs at a time, and if I can perform in three out those five, I'm right on track for the next World Cup |
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Trevor Bayliss [Source]
"Even in India, Suraj Randiv was the best spinner. And [Malinga] Bandara has been around for years and he gets another opportunity here. Pushpukamara is a spin bowling allrounder. So we are not worried." |
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Muttiah Muralitharan [Source]
I didn’t have a great 2009 because I had so many injuries. I played 16 ODI matches and took 22 wickets at 4.7 an over which is according to international standards a very good effort. But in Test cricket I played only 8 and got 26 wickets at an average of 45. My career average is 22 and it has dropped because I played on so many flat tracks. It’s not a great effort from me, my performances have gone down. |
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Marvan Atapattu [Source]
Sri Lanka cricket at this moment of time is not going in the direction it should be going, especially with a set of muppets headed by a joker. |
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Graeme Swann [Source]
When we watched him [Ajantha Mendis] bowl we thought 'how are we going to do against Murali when we can't even play this clubbie? |
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Sanath Jayasuriya [Source]
The sad thing is, I don't know whether the Sri Lankan cricket board is even aware that I'm completing 20 years today! |
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Micheal Ahterton [Source]
Sri Lanka have suddenly become the foremost exponents of a new approach to one-day cricket,
one which turns the conventional English version on its head. Their batsmen opt for vertical take-off in the first 15 overs, not the last 15, and only then do they throttle back. It seems to be a spectacular way to fly. |
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Arjuna Ranatunga [Source]
It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he [ Shane Warne] has been swallowing. |
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