Glenn McGrath Quotes

When you've got a team who are making a concerted effort to make a batsman feel uncomfortable it can look pretty ordinary.

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

I never look to contain. I always try and take wickets.

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

As a fast bowler if you're not going to bowl well on a Perth wicket you're going to struggle in Australia.

The way you get wickets is, you've got to build pressure.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to work out that the South African bowling attack is exceptionally good.

I know I'm a better bowler and create more chances if I get a batsman indecisive in defence.

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

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.

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

As a bowler, you want to go and bowl in helpful conditions in South Africa, England, and Australia. But it is also important to bowl in the right areas, and they differ from bowler to bowler, depending on conditions and the opposition.

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.

If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.

The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still gets nine runs. To avoid that, I need to plan in a way where he must look to hit wherever there is a fielder. That is what is called 'bowling to the field.'

A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.

The more allrounders you have, the more difficult it becomes for the opposition. The reason being, if you have players who can bat and bowl, and if they are proper allrounders - they may be spinning or fast-bowling allrounders - they add to the strength of the team.

Even when you bowl a bad over, try to restrict it in between 15-18 runs, because if you go higher than that, it has a bigger impact on the game.

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.

As a bowler it's a strange feeling when you start running through a team. You get that one wicket under your belt and suddenly you start running in feeling loose, feeling relaxed and thinking about what you want to bowl rather than focusing on trying to force that wicket.

If you look round the world, most teams want guys who can bowl up at 90 mph because they can make things happen when it isn't doing much.

Usually a captain will allow his bowler to set the field, while exercising overall control and maintaining the authority to step in if he sees fit.

You have got to try to make the batsman feel a bit uncomfortable to get him out.