K. L. Rahul Quotes

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Reverse swing is a great asset if it happens.

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 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.

That is one of the great things about Test cricket, the ball. Sometimes it swings conventionally, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it reverses.

The start of the English county season - from April to mid-May when it's cold - is the same as South Africa because it seams and swings. After that, the ball starts spinning nicely, and that's when I get my wickets.

I might be six foot six but that doesn't mean I can play a Steve Harmison role and bounce people out.

On Edens Gardens pitch, nobody bowls well.

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

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.

If you don't have bounce on the pitch, even a spinner cannot come handy.

It's important on any English wicket to leave well.

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.

The history of Test cricket will suggest if you hold the top of off longer than anyone else you will have success, in England particularly it's about owning the top of off.

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.

I still don't know why batsmen are taking so much time to figure me out.

In T20, I think it's really valuable to have a bowler who can bring the ball back into the right hander at pace.

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.

Strike rates depend on the surfaces you play on.

There is no specific formula that you need to follow to do well on certain wickets.