Glenn McGrath Quotes

The way you get wickets is, you've got to build pressure.

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

When a bowler comes on you want to put him under pressure. He might not allow you to do that but find a way.

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.

In terms of pace, every captain wants pace in their attack.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

If you've got one bowler - particularly a fast bowler - who is really aggressive, all over the opposition, he brings the rest of the team along with him.

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 know I'm a better bowler and create more chances if I get a batsman indecisive in defence.

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

Sometimes what happens is you're not getting wickets; you're going for runs. You just want to get away.

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.

If you bowl well early in the innings, it is also important to finish well.

I used to bowl a lot at the death while bowling in the IPL, but it serves as a confidence booster that I can do a lot more with the ball at the start of the innings and at the death.

I am happy with my batting form. I have been bowling well, too, and have bowled long spells.

Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to do a fraction, up or down or side to side, and you get someone out.