Jonathan Agnew Quotes

I feel like I need to find ways to disrupt the other team and apply that pressure they might not be used to. I think being able to set that tone is something I'm priding myself on.

In the 2015 World Cup, there was a drastic change in the move towards higher scores. Scores moved from 300 to 330 on average and that meant you had to change everyone's default mode.

We know from experience that anything can happen in games against strong opponents; nuances can make the difference.

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.

As a test cricket lover, and as a cricket lover, I like all forms of the game.

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

Obviously, when I go in at No. 11 it stands to reason that we will have a better chance of scoring runs or batting out time if the batsman at the other end takes most of the strike. That's because, as my place in the order suggests, he is a better batsman than me.

I respect Test cricket a lot. Once I got into the Test team, I learnt so much about international cricket and realised it's not so different.

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.

That's the nicest part of football; you can't do everything to stop a player.

I think we can keep people off-balance and ultimately we have to go score points, score one more point than the other team.

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

As an opening batsman, it's my responsibility to spend as much time in the middle as I can and try and get big scores in the first innings so that we don't have to bat in the second innings.

Peter Moores has been very popular in the England dressing room. He's got a very good record of developing players but I felt that in some areas of international cricket he is a little bit exposed, around tactics and strategy.

That's how you win matches - bowling in pairs.

Momentum is a whole lot in the game of basketball. People dwell on momentum, but that really does matter.

It is never a problem to have good players on the bench.

Someone like Shane Warne played the game on and off the field really well and got into guys' heads. Even though he couldn't bounce you and hurt you physically, he was verbally aggressive and would let you know he'd get you out. He made batsmen doubt themselves. I learned from players like him and made a point of incorporating it into my own game.

Teams struggle when they come to Stamford Bridge and, if we score one or two, everything seems to open up for us. We need to work hard to get into that position in the first place, but you can see what happens once we are ahead.

A lot of the things we do in Test cricket revolves around planning for the Ashes series down under.

You know, this league is all about adjustments, and the one thing you kinda notice when you're playing every day is how teams make adjustments. Once you start having a little bit of success, they are going to make their adjustment.

We always gave one-day cricket respect as players, definitely.

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

You just need to go into matches with a clear plan in T20 cricket. If you go half-half, it's going to be really hard to come back.

If you think like a batsman, you have an upper-hand over the man you're bowling to.