Stuart Broad Quotes

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

When you get into Indian top-order, you can wreak havoc. It's paramount to rattle the Indian top-order, otherwise, they can hurt you.

The more you get a batsman out the more it becomes psychological. A batsman starts thinking about it and making something of it in his head.

When you create pressure in the previous over for your partner to strike, it is sometimes as satisfying as picking up a wicket yourself.

The night before a game, I'd think about who I was playing, and then how I'd bowled against those guys, if I had got them out previously. While I was playing, I could recall nearly all my wickets and how I got the batsman out.

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

I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.

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.

But if you have got a batsman out three or four times in the same series then you are in business - all of a sudden you have got yourself a bit of a bunny.

If you've got one bowler - particularly a fast bowler - who is really aggressive, all over the opposition, he brings the rest of the team along with him.

I have always said the most difficult batsman to bowl against is the man who is in form. You may have seen the best batsmen get out early when they are not in form, but an in-form batsman is difficult to dismiss.

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

When I bowled to batters like Michael Vaughan or Jacques Kallis who were classical, technically perfect, sound batters, I always found that I could get them out.

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.

In T20, batsmen are always going after you, so a good policy is to bowl five-six dot balls in your first two-three overs so that pressure builds on the batsman, and he plays riskier shots.

If there is someone who is able to swing the ball, I believe I have it in me to swing it a bit more than the other bowlers.

There's games you try one field goal, and if you miss that one field goal you'll feel like crap for the whole rest of the week... It doesn't do you any good.

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

In tournament cricket, with a new opponent each game, I think you actually need to play to your own strengths more.

You've got to do your homework, and you've got to look at what makes people successful, what makes penalty takers unsuccessful. Ultimately, they're the ones kicking it, so how can you transfer the pressure on to them? How can you disrupt their pattern to make it difficult?

We all know just bowling won't do in modern international cricket, and we have to contribute with the bat and as a fielder, too.

Bowlers have to accept they will go for runs sometimes.

Of course, every batsman gets out. I know that. It is almost inevitable that no matter what you do, you will get out at some point or the other.