Harbhajan Singh Quotes

In Twenty20s, you have to bowl a lot fuller, especially at the death, and you've got to be mindful of what you're doing. But it's still cricket.

Cricket is not rocket science. Bowlers often get wickets through perseverance, accuracy and being patient rather than trying to blast opposition teams out.

Dotting teams up and bowling maidens back to back cannot be underestimated in Australian conditions because it gives you control of the game.

As a skipper, when you try to manipulate the field, you need to see the strengths of the fast bowlers.

I am a big fan of the five-bowler strategy.

There is no specific formula that you need to follow to do well on certain wickets.

They come with a lot of strategies in international cricket. You face bowlers with a lot more pace.

If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team's strength. But a rank turner might backfire.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

You can't make three or four spinners bowl the exact number of overs. You don't see the number of overs bowled by them before you make a bowling change; you see who looks effective and make a bowling change.

The off spinner's job is to contain; for me, leg spinners need to have a bigger heart than anyone else because it is easy to blame them.

You have to be smart on your feet. It will be hard on wickets where the ball will keep low. Hopefully, you can get one to fly, and that puts doubts in the batsman's mind.

That is one of the great things about Test cricket, the ball. Sometimes it swings conventionally, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it reverses.

When I watch a match, I always try to understand what the batsman is trying to do so that I know what I should do to get him out.

Playing with Morne Morkel and Dale Steyn, I am a very lucky guy. Not many people are going to attack those two, which means the batsmen will attack me. And if they attack me, there is always a chance I can get a wicket.

When you are bowling with a new ball, there are only two fielders outside the circle. With the old ball, batsmen don't care how many guys are outside the circle.

I feel, as a captain, that when you face a batsman who plays spin well you feel as if you are a fielder short.

Well, I've always prefered playing spin off the back foot because, to my mind, it takes short leg and silly point out of the equation.

We all know that spinners dominate in Indian conditions, so it's good if medium pacers can get at least two wickets.

I don't bowl at 140 kmph or 150 kmph, so my best chance of getting the batsmen out is by bowling in the right areas and getting it to swing.

I like to take wickets and see wickets and chances and I think in T20 cricket you have to risk a boundary to take a wicket.

As a bowler, you want to go and bowl in helpful conditions in South Africa, England, and Australia. But it is also important to bowl in the right areas, and they differ from bowler to bowler, depending on conditions and the opposition.

The history of Test cricket will suggest if you hold the top of off longer than anyone else you will have success, in England particularly it's about owning the top of off.

In T20, I think it's really valuable to have a bowler who can bring the ball back into the right hander at pace.

If you go for wickets all the time, then you will go for runs as well because you will have to flight the ball and invite the batsmen to hit you.