Cricketer

🇮🇪Samuel Beckett

Literature

Nouveau Roman

1906–1989

"Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?"

🇦🇺Shane Warne

Sports

1969–2022

"I don't like him and I'm not in a club of one."

"Cricket is the most senior, widespread and deeply rooted of English games."

🇮🇳Kapil Dev

Entertainment

b. 1959

"When we returned India, we realised how the countrymen had celebrated the win! Everybody was over the moon. Some of them said that the August 15, 1947 came back."

🇬🇧Alec Douglas-Home

Politics

1903–1995

"Why do we need wealth? Security and peace. This is our goal and we passionately seek it because it is the way of life which we are charged by our religion to practise."

🇬🇧Terence Rattigan

Literature

1911–1977

"Do you know what le vice Anglais – the English vice – really is? Not flagellation, not pederasty – whatever the French believe it to be. It's our refusal to admit to our emotions. We think they demean us, I suppose."

🇮🇳Navjot Singh Sidhu

Politics

b. 1963

"Wickets are like wives - you never know which way they will turn!"

🇮🇳Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee

Politics

1899–1981

"‘It closes the Gate of Interpretation. It lays down that legists and jurisconsults are to be divided into certain categories and no freedom of thought is allowed.’"

🇮🇳Sachin Tendulkar

Politics

b. 1973

"I am planning on an autobiography. People should know something about me"

Kamisese Mara

Politics

1920–2004

"The reconciliation that has been undertaken today will be worthless if investigations into the coup do not reveal the truth behind the staging."

"My fortune in cricket was to play when the first-class game was free and fast-flowing and with a county as concerned to play attractive and sporting cricket as to win."

🇮🇳Harbhajan Singh

Politics

b. 1980

"He is a very strong headed person and that shows on-screen ... He got success at an early age and still he is so grounded and humble. He loves his game. I want to learn that from him"

"We hope that Wisden is a constant, helping the reader to make sense of it all and providing a little contemplative calm."

🇵🇰Shoaib Akhtar

b. 1975

"“Captain would raise eyebrows about him eating with us or taking the food from the same table."

🇮🇳Sunil Gavaskar

b. 1949

"Virat gave more than 100 per cent against Australia to take India into semifinals. I haven't seen anybody as composed as Virat Kohli under pressure. He is beyond phenomenal. He is the best limited overs batsman"

🇱🇰Arjuna Ranatunga

Politics

b. 1963

"You get him out and half the battle is won."

🇬🇧Trevor Bailey

Sports

1923–2011

"The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces."

🇬🇧Fred Trueman

Sports

1931–2006

"He is possibly the only bowler to have played in a Test series as an automatic choice without taking a wicket."

🇬🇧Learie Constantine

Politics

1901–1971

"The joy, the tension, the exhilaration and the happiness those Sundays brought into our lives served as a cushion, I am sure, for the sterner life which was ahead for all of us."