James Anderson Quotes

When I play a cover-drive, I play it to score runs.

I always breathe cricket.

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

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

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

It pumps me up - the whole idea of the bowler marking his run-up, popping at the crease, the crowd chanting, nerves building up. It's a very good feeling. Right from the first ball, I know I have to be at the top of my game.

In South Africa, you can get away sometimes because of the bounce. You may get away with full wide balls. In India, it does not bounce and finds the middle of the bat and goes flying to point or extra cover for four.

There are times I do single wicket bowling, and there are times I try, practise, hitting a specific length.

Playing cricket in England is what I am looking forward to, and I would love to bowl at Lord's again.

I have had a bowl with the pink ball but it was in a day game at Wormsley.

On Edens Gardens pitch, nobody bowls well.

My role is to play out the full overs.

When you create pressure in the previous over for your partner to strike, it is sometimes as satisfying as picking up a wicket yourself.

Marcus Trescothick. No question. I hate bowling to him. I pitch it up, he drives me through the covers. I bowl back of a length, he runs me down to third-man. I go short, and he lifts me over the keeper or pulls me for four.

Growing up, I played on matting wickets. I always enjoyed the pace and bounce and somewhere that has a big role or big effect on your game.

I hate when a batsman plays a pull shot off my bowling.

When I was growing up, we would play a 10-over or 15-over game, and the asking-rate would always be high, and I would end up scoring 30 or 40 runs in 15 balls, so I built that mindset right from the beginning and still continue to bat in the same manner.

A bowler will always say it's a batsman's game.

I am a rhythmic bowler.

I play cricket. I'm a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket.

The 'Natmeg' from England's Natalie Sciver attracted a lot of attention as a brilliant piece of improvisation, which requires every bit as much talent as a Tillakaratne Dilshan 'scoop,' or a Jos Buttler 'ramp' shot.

I just go out there and try to do what I am paid to do, which is score runs and take wickets.

The wickets in England are very helpful to me.

I used to play cricket all the time as a kid.

People like Mo Ali, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Joe Root, they are looking to take attack to the opposition and that's when they play their best.