“Cricket as a passion is distinctly contagious.”

“And one's passions are so random and unreliable - cricket scores one minute, Swinburne the next.”

“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”

“If one-day cricket was pyjama cricket, then Twenty20 is underwear cricket.”

“Cricket can be a bridge and a glue… Cricket for peace is my mission.”

“Smut is a target for reconstructed cricketing accidents -- he is the Cricket Saint Sebastian.”

“They've started this filthy floodlit cricket with cricketers wearing tin hats and advertisements for contraceptives on their boots.”

“There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.”

“Cricket has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.”

“Long ago I discovered that there was more to life than cricket, and more to cricket than runs and wickets.”