Imran Tahir Quotes

I like to take wickets and see wickets and chances and I think in T20 cricket you have to risk a boundary to take a wicket.

I have always been an attacking bowler. I am more than happy to go for a few runs and get a few wickets.

Bowlers have to accept they will go for runs sometimes.

Sometimes what happens is you're not getting wickets; you're going for runs. You just want to get away.

I always believe I will take wickets.

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

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

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

I don't bowl to hit people; I bowl to get wickets.

You see teams buy a lot of batsmen for a lot of money because they are good batsmen. But you also need good bowlers to get them out or contain the runs.

I love that feeling of being in a battle with the new ball, you're getting an opening batsman out while they are desperate to survive.

As a bowler I think I am more wicket-based than some.

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

If I'm only going to play one more match, I want to take a wicket with every ball, not try and defend a boundary.

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

I mean everyone's always spoken about fast bowlers and especially myself as a strike bowler, but I look at myself as somebody who could hold down the runs, you know, over 200 games, I've taken a lot of wickets but I've got a pretty decent economy rate.

In terms of pace, every captain wants pace in their attack.

What we have learned is that Roland-Jones is a very promising prospect. Because of the way he bowls, he will not blow batsmen away, but is more likely to take wickets through accuracy and building pressure.

Speed can't always get you wickets.

It is scary when bowling how hard batsmen hit it now.

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

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.

You can't make three or four spinners bowl the exact number of overs. You don't see the number of overs bowled by them before you make a bowling change; you see who looks effective and make a bowling change.

If you ask me the best bowler, then Wasim Akram was the best bowler because he had a lot of variety. Even when you were batting on 100 or 150, you're not very sure... He could still get you out. That was his forte.

Great fast bowlers don't have to worry about whether the track is flat or green. They'll find a way to get wickets.