If someone who doesn’t know anything about wicketkeeping finds a reason to criticise, you have to sift it out. It’s about working out how to deal with the criticism while improving your game. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
As a youngster, you take a lot of things to heart, so you have to learn to trust yourself. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
I’ve always said I don’t mind where I bat and I have exactly the same mindset when I’m batting seven as I would at five. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
Every young cricketer from our county dreams of playing for Yorkshire and going on to represent England. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
I think ‘chuffed to bits’ is a very Yorkshire way of describing my feelings for my friend and county team-mate Joe Root on his promotion to England captain. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
Life without cricket was initially harder for my dad than playing the game for Yorkshire and England had ever been. He missed it, and also the adrenaline pump of a performance. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
My dad is never far from my thoughts. A place, a game, an incident somewhere or an unexpected word from someone can trigger a memory, which then triggers another, and suddenly I’m thinking about him, if only for a minute or two. Jonny Bairstow Read Quote
