Imran Tahir Quotes

Leg spinners can change the game.

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

For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.

To me, Shane Warne is a great turner of the ball. I like his aggressive attitude, I love the way he attacks batsmen, and I give him 100 per cent for that, as not enough spinners bowl with that approach, but in my estimation, Subhash Gupte was a better leg-spinner.

Spinners have a main role, whether in the IPL or world cricket. But it's hard to be a legspinner: you have to be accurate.

I always love challenges, and when I bowl, I always look to get wickets.

People say that because I'm short I get a lot more skid off the pitch.

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

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.

I was a wicket-keeper who opened the batting. Could I have made it? Hard to say. I probably wouldn't quite have been good enough. I might get back into it once I've finished with the football.

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.

One needs to have variations. You won't survive if you don't have one - especially playing in India, as they are good players of spin.

As a bowler, there are times when you do not get wickets, and you don't have the numbers to show against your name. But never has the thought crossed my mind that I am not a confident bowler and the wickets are not coming my way.

According to me, a leg-spinner is such a character who, on his day, can win the match for you if he is bowling well and has the support of the captain and the coach.

I still don't know why batsmen are taking so much time to figure me out.

It is a big challenge as a spinner to play modern day cricket, where you have to have five players in the circle.

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

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

As a bowling unit, you get a lot of confidence if the spinners and pacers are bowling as a team.

The googly and the slider are my favourite type of deliveries, and I love it when batsmen try to cut or sweep me and, while attempting those strokes, get lbw or clean bowled.

We all know just bowling won't do in modern international cricket, and we have to contribute with the bat and as a fielder, too.

Legspinners are exciting characters.

When I started playing cricket, I knew that my physique is not at all like a typical fast bowler. My body language is also different, and I am not aggressive by nature; thus, my focus was always on my skills.

When I'm running in to bowl, I am always thinking of taking a wicket.

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