Quotes About Cricket

Unless you are a good bowler, you won't be in the India A side.

I want to be the best cricketer I can be for my country. If I work hard, the main aim for me is to be the world's best bowler.

As a fast bowler if you're not going to bowl well on a Perth wicket you're going to struggle in Australia.

As a bowler I think I am more wicket-based than some.

Shaun Pollock is actually the best role model for me as a very good attritional bowler.

As a bowler you are not a hero, you are always backing a hero but you need 20 wickets to win a Test match.

If I can bat against someone who is bowling 145 kph on a challenging wicket - that confidence is really important.

The way I am bowling at the death, it's all thanks to the IPL.

I just want to enjoy the game and work on all aspects - batting, bowling, and fielding. The more I enjoy my game, the better I can perform.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to work out that the South African bowling attack is exceptionally good.

It's not easy bowling off-spin in one-day internationals with only five men allowed on the leg side.

Not many days you get a nice, fast bowling wicket.

The time I spend bowling with the white ball is a lot less than in Test cricket.

No matter what, I was always looking for a wicket. Whether I was bowling to restrict or bowling to get wickets, at the back of my mind, I always had the thought that I wanted the wicket.

I had to go back and work on my bowling when I first came in. I was out of the team for three-four months before I came back into the ODI team again. I had to work on my bowling, which I did and the results are coming.

Once you have a good bowling attack that can take 20 wickets anywhere, then no game is an away game. Every game is a home game. It doesn't matter what the pitch is, you have the ammunition.

I realized that the ball is turning more in leg-spin, which would make things difficult for the batsmen, so this made me enjoy bowling leg-spin more.

When you play for India, you get more confidence because of bowling at Chinnaswamy. A spinner is always worried about short boundaries, but having bowled here, I don't fear bowling anywhere.

At the end of the day, the bowlers have to get 20 wickets to win a Test match. I'm sure they do have a little bit of brains to get those wickets.

As a cricketer, I played on bravado and character. My personality was bound up with how I played the game.

There were many batsmen who were very difficult to bowl at. Brian Lara was probably at the top.

In T20, batsmen are always going after you, so a good policy is to bowl five-six dot balls in your first two-three overs so that pressure builds on the batsman, and he plays riskier shots.

All I ever wanted to do was play cricket for England and be successful.

But if you have got a batsman out three or four times in the same series then you are in business - all of a sudden you have got yourself a bit of a bunny.