Quotes About Wickets

You can't be chasing 338 and still have 5 wickets in the end. It's about mindset and the way you look at the game.

The beauty of Test cricket is all about playing an opponent in their backyard or defending home turf under challenging conditions over five days - dominating each session, dominating each day, picking 20 wickets to win a contest. That's historically been cricket's most fascinating gift.

I guess the thing with South Africa and Australia, the conditions are probably the two most similar around the world. The pace in the wickets are generally pretty similar, and the pace and bounce.

The one thing about professional sport is it's all about results, and at the end of the day, if someone is employing you and you're not scoring runs or you're not taking wickets, they ain't going to carry on doing it, and there's no any other way of saying that; that's unfortunately the ruthless business of professional sport.

If you win one or two matches at home on good wickets, on grassy wickets, you'll develop confidence automatically.

I enjoy taking wickets more than most people can understand. I'm addicted to that feeling.