K. L. Rahul Quotes

There are very rare occasions when you get a good wicket to bat on, but whatever wicket you get, you have to play at least 20 overs for your side.

During the peak of my career, I used to pick the ball as soon it was released from the bowler's hands. And I hit the ball through the line.

Strike rates depend on the surfaces you play on.

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.

It's important on any English wicket to leave well.

They come with a lot of strategies in international cricket. You face bowlers with a lot more pace.

The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.

It was my wish to play in the challenging conditions in Australia. I love the bounce there.

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

If you are playing in the right conditions, there is always motivation to bowl fast. If you are playing in the wrong condition then you want to be a batsman.

You have to respect the bowler, and every batsmen have their way of tackling the spinners.

The start of the English county season - from April to mid-May when it's cold - is the same as South Africa because it seams and swings. After that, the ball starts spinning nicely, and that's when I get my wickets.

On Edens Gardens pitch, nobody bowls well.

Running-between-the-wickets is the ability to convert ones into twos, twos into threes, and threes into fours. And to reach the wickets on time.

Those first few overs are obviously the most difficult time because you don't know what the ball is going to do in the air and off the seam.

If you don't have bounce on the pitch, even a spinner cannot come handy.

I do enjoy batting - if the bowling's not quick!

At that speed, batsmen are almost trying to premeditate where the ball will be - they feel like they don't have time to react or move. That's the difference between bowling in the mid-80s and the mid-90s.

I am a rhythmic bowler.

Reverse swing is a great asset if it happens.

In the past, I bowled at players like Michael Atherton, Alec Stewart, Nasser Hussain, Michael Vaughan and Marcus Trescothick.

The wickets in England are very helpful to me.

Leg spinners can change the game.

Runs are important, don't get me wrong, but it will be wickets that I will be judged on.

If the batsmen can give the bowlers a day and half of rest then that is going to work in the team's favour.