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

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

On Twenty20 cricket, in "If one-dayer is pyjama cricket, Twenty20 is underwear cricket" in Daily News and Analysis (17 July 2006) http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report-if-one-dayer-is-pyjama-cricket-twenty20-is-underwear-cricket-1042298.

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