Bhuvneshwar Kumar Quotes

With Test cricket, it's very important that you are bowling at high speed but T20 cricket is a great way to be versatile.

T20 in international cricket can almost be paid lip-service at times, with one game tagged on to the end of an ODI series or a long tour - sometimes it can feel like there is no point in playing it.

If you get out back-to-back in T20s, it proves costly.

Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker.

The reason why people love T20 is the sixes and fours.

I always found one-day cricket a lot harder. I had to change my game.

Guys are playing a lot of limited overs cricket and not making that adjustment when it comes to the longer version and pay a price for that.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table - mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

I am not someone like A. B. de Villiers, Gayle, or Dhoni. I don't have that much power. I have to use my brain to manipulate the field and stick to my strength, which is to hit through the lines.

You need different skills to do well in 50-overs cricket. You need completely different skills to do well in Test cricket. You need different skills to do well in T20 cricket. It is not the same.

You can get suckered into believing you have to always be attacking with the bat, ball or fielding positions. But Test cricket is not always like that. There are times when it is a bit slow paced and even a bit boring.

I never let myself forget that our rivals are waiting for us to slip up and feed their hope of catching us.

I've always felt that when I've been successful in red-ball cricket it has been because I've left the ball well and sometimes in cricket the shots you don't play are more important than the ones you do.

Every game is different, and there is no easy game at international level.

T20 has become a longer and longer format of the game. It is more than four hours in a lot of parts of the world.

Although I am not in the thick of things when it comes to T20 cricket, but as an ODI captain, I'd like to give more stability to the players.

You have to be smart on your feet. It will be hard on wickets where the ball will keep low. Hopefully, you can get one to fly, and that puts doubts in the batsman's mind.

You want to start fast in each game, you want to start fast in each season and take it a week at a time.

The game in T20 cricket moves so fast and guys are always putting you under pressure - you can have plans for the likes of Chris Lynn and Glenn Maxwell and try to execute them but they can then do the exact opposite of what you expect, especially Maxwell.

T20 cricket is all about using variations, and timing has to be perfect.

Even though I am someone who played one-dayers more, I have equally prepared hard for the T20 format too.

Test cricket is still important, so are ODIs, but T20 should be there too because of the crowd factor.

Runs are runs, even if they are coming off playing cut shots or in front, but it's not like T20 can only be played with big shots.

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.

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.