Jonathan Agnew Quotes

I don't run after speed. Obviously, it will be better to have some more pace, but I am very well aware that I can't bowl with the speed of 150 kmph. I am working hard on my technique and variations.

What we have learned is that Roland-Jones is a very promising prospect. Because of the way he bowls, he will not blow batsmen away, but is more likely to take wickets through accuracy and building pressure.

I don't know what it is about fast bowling. I guess it's the ability to do something that nobody else can really do.

There are many things that you just observe while watching Steyn. Just seeing him bowl is a great learning in itself.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I'll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I'm thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

I used to prepare in advance on how the bowler is going to bowl, whether is he going to bowl an outswinger or an inswinger? I used to watch the videos of the bowler and used to prepare in advance.

Being a swing bowler, bowling at the death is just an added facet in my bowling.

Great fast bowlers don't have to worry about whether the track is flat or green. They'll find a way to get wickets.

As to adding variations to my white ball bowling, ever since I started playing IPL, I realised you need variations. You can't survive on line and length. You need coaches around you who can guide you to get there. I have been lucky that I have had seniors and coaches who have helped me get there.

I have always been an attacking bowler. I am more than happy to go for a few runs and get a few wickets.

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

I am a rhythmic bowler.

Reverse swing is a great asset if it happens.

If you ask me the best bowler, then Wasim Akram was the best bowler because he had a lot of variety. Even when you were batting on 100 or 150, you're not very sure... He could still get you out. That was his forte.

If you look round the world, most teams want guys who can bowl up at 90 mph because they can make things happen when it isn't doing much.

A lot of the emphasis on international bowlers is on their pace and Australia coach Darren Lehmann is a big fan of bowlers who can bowl 90mph-plus.

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

I try to keep the ball up to the bat, and I usually get the ball to outswing, so I get wickets like that.

I never look to contain. I always try and take wickets.

The thing I've got to concentrate on for South Africa is bowling at good pace and if the ball is in the right area that will cause enough trouble.

I mean everyone's always spoken about fast bowlers and especially myself as a strike bowler, but I look at myself as somebody who could hold down the runs, you know, over 200 games, I've taken a lot of wickets but I've got a pretty decent economy rate.

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.