Inzamam-ul-Haq 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.

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 am a big fan of the five-bowler strategy.

Every wicket you play on is different.

On Edens Gardens pitch, nobody bowls well.

The Oval has always been a good batting track, and there's not much for the bowlers.

I do not fear grassy tracks. Whether there is grass or not on the wicket, I am not worried.

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

Strike rates depend on the surfaces you play on.

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

I don't want a new ball when I am bowling in the subcontinent. I want an old ball that can't get hit out of the ground. I want a ball that when I bowl doesn't have true bounce, so that the batsman can't hit it.

In Twenty20s, you have to bowl a lot fuller, especially at the death, and you've got to be mindful of what you're doing. But it's still cricket.

Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to do a fraction, up or down or side to side, and you get someone out.

The thing I've got to concentrate on for South Africa is bowling at good pace and if the ball is in the right area that will cause enough trouble.

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.

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.

I don't know what it is about fast bowling. I guess it's the ability to do something that nobody else can really do.

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

I enjoy wicket-keeping in the shorter format. I think when we are bowling first, it gives me an idea of how the wicket is behaving.

Speed can't always get you wickets.

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

I'd love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be turn - a cricket match without spinners is like a chess match without two important pieces - a less interesting game.

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

There are not enough turning pitches in India, which is why we are not getting good spinners.

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.