Nasser Hussain Quotes

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Nasser Hussain

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 28, 1968

Every player needs to be aware of the levels of fitness needed to play international cricket.

Nasser Hussain

Whether that was in the Chepauk Stadium in Madras or at the Ilford Cricket School, there was a daily diet of cricket run by my dad. It was a hard school but he knew what he was doing. Everything I achieved was down to my dad.

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You travel the world and you talk to people about Jos Buttler, and they rave about this lad. I don't like massive comments, but he'd have to be up there with the three or four greatest white-ball players of all time. You're talking Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, MS Dhoni, Viv Richards.

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I had good and bad seasons for Essex. I was a real form player: if I got on a run, I was happy and confident, but if I had a bad trot, I was far too analytical of my game, worried about it too much and my form got worse.

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Pujara is not fashionable, he's very much old-fashioned - he's not great between the wickets and he's not a modern, extravagant, in-your-face character like Kohli, Dhawan or Pandya.

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I played with Graham Thorpe and Alec Stewart; if anything off the field affected Graham his cricket life was not important and you had to give him a break. But if Alec had issues at home you would never know about it; he would turn up and think: 'This is my job, I can do it.'

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If you've got an opportunity to improve your squad before a World Cup you must take it.

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I think Andrew Strauss never gets enough credit for what he's done for English cricket.

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I haven't stuck my head out to be captain of England.

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Off the field I always thought Mark Taylor was exemplary in the way he handled himself.

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I am still disappointed when I have let myself down or my team. That will not change at any stage in the future.

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From the age of eight until 15 or 16, every time I was out bowling leg spin I was thinking about my dad and when you've done that it stays with you. There are lots of things he did which enabled me to be the player that I was. It wasn't me that wanted to be a cricketer. He made me 90 per cent of the player I was and the person I was.

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My relationship with my dad is everything.

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With my bowling, I didn't know how I was doing it, so when it went wrong I didn't know how to fix it.

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Bowling was my natural skill. I didn't know how I was doing it, but I was spinning it miles and bamboozling people.

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When you are no longer England captain, you suddenly realise it's over, you are no longer England captain, and you appreciate what you had.

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More than playing, my greatest moments and love of the game come from captaining England.

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I admired Stephen Fleming.

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Being in charge of a team is just like having kids.

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The closer I got to Essex 2nds, the more technical I got with my batting.

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