Mohammad Amir Quotes

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

I don't like half-volleys being driven for four.

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

That happens on a cricket field. People have a go at each other. That's fair, that's fine. It's called Test cricket. It's not a day in the park.

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

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.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

My role is to play out the full overs.

Standing at the end of your run with the ball in your hand preparing to bowl the first ball of an Ashes series is an amazing feeling.

I always breathe cricket.

I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.

An inswinger - that gets an lbw or bowled - after a few outswingers is always very pleasing.

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

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.

I do love the Ashes and some of my best memories are from Ashes cricket. I just wish we'd played a few more Test matches.

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

The one thing you can't do is get carried away with that pace and bounce. There's a temptation to charge in and just slam the ball into the pitch and you can end up bowling too short. You still have to bowl the right length so that you threaten to take wickets.

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

The wickets in England are very helpful to me.

An IPL match may be decided when the ball passes inches beyond the grasp of a fielder on the boundary or when a direct hit catches a batsman inches short of the crease.

In one-day internationals, the batsman is under pressure to get on with run-scoring and does not have the luxury of leaving too many deliveries.

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

You do your best but I think I'm going to try and get back in as a batsman first, spinner second.

The Kookaburra is the toughest ball to bowl with.