Gautam Gambhir Quotes

I have learned a lot playing in domestic first-class cricket: how to score runs, how to counter situations.

With the new ball, against any bowler, it's important to see off the first few 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 can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life. I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.

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

My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.

Right through school, I was a handy cricketer, a batsman and a left-arm spinner who bowled leg breaks.

I appreciate every batsman in the world for different reasons. If I want someone to tough it out in the middle, I'd pick Steve Waugh. If I want someone who I know is going to have the technique to survive, you want a player like Tendulkar.

I have always enjoyed playing as a batsman. In the T20 format, I have been asked to play at six or seven. I have finished a few innings batting first and a few chasing. It feels good and it feels like yes I can do it.

Tillakaratne Dilshan is innovative and scores quickly, while Upul Tharanga is neat and well organised - and left handed.

I love to watch Rohit Sharma bat.

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.

It's always frustrated me when I've seen other players able to smack balls over the bowler's head and stuff like that. I can't, though. When I've tried I've let myself down.

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

I enjoy taking wickets more than most people can understand. I'm addicted to that feeling.

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

My strength is my flexibility. As a batsman, I have to adapt to different roles and numbers and frankly, I have been around for a long time now to understand different situations.

Batting with Dhoni is always a dream for me.

I want to be a high-order batter in the one-day stuff, to play some long innings rather than just go in and have a swipe.

I can get runs much faster if I stay there in the middle to give bowlers more time and cushion.

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

There's a difference between batting at number four position and batting in the lower order.

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.

As a batsman, I want to stay as long as possible at the crease.

The night before a game, I'd think about who I was playing, and then how I'd bowled against those guys, if I had got them out previously. While I was playing, I could recall nearly all my wickets and how I got the batsman out.