Vijay Shankar Quotes

I sometimes get someone to bowl at me from closer than the usual 22 yards so when I then go and play on a normal-sized pitch, everything feels easier.

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

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 you want to bowl a yorker, you have to land it; if you want to bowl a bouncer you have to be on the money.

Speed can't always get you wickets.

When I play a cover-drive, I play it to score runs.

The Kookaburra is the toughest ball to bowl with.

I don't like half-volleys being driven for four.

As bowlers, we don't worry about the wickets, whether they are flat or not.

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

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.

I always breathe cricket.

An inswinger - that gets an lbw or bowled - after a few outswingers is always very pleasing.

It pumps me up - the whole idea of the bowler marking his run-up, popping at the crease, the crowd chanting, nerves building up. It's a very good feeling. Right from the first ball, I know I have to be at the top of my game.

I have tried to improve on my death bowling.

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.

You have to have sound mechanics to repeat the same delivery each time. That's the hard part. Since I don't bowl all the time I'm not consistent with my mechanics.

The one thing you can't do is get carried away with that pace and bounce. There's a temptation to charge in and just slam the ball into the pitch and you can end up bowling too short. You still have to bowl the right length so that you threaten to take wickets.

I cannot think that I am a good cricketer and just become one. For this, one needs skill.

I have had a bowl with the pink ball but it was in a day game at Wormsley.

The main thing for a bowler is his wrist position, and that, as I've said before, is something I'm working on.

My role is to play out the full overs.

Running-between-the-wickets is the ability to convert ones into twos, twos into threes, and threes into fours. And to reach the wickets on time.

I can throw strikes any time.

The most important thing is to keep our basics strong in both batting and bowling.