Harbhajan Singh Quotes

Bowlers have to accept they will go for runs sometimes.

Speed can't always get you wickets.

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

When you are bowling with a new ball, there are only two fielders outside the circle. With the old ball, batsmen don't care how many guys are outside the circle.

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.

When a bowler comes on you want to put him under pressure. He might not allow you to do that but find a way.

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.

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

Cricket is not rocket science. Bowlers often get wickets through perseverance, accuracy and being patient rather than trying to blast opposition teams out.

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

I used to bowl a lot at the death while bowling in the IPL, but it serves as a confidence booster that I can do a lot more with the ball at the start of the innings and at the death.

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

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.'

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

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.

I have tried to improve on my death bowling.

Being a swing bowler, bowling at the death is just an added facet in my bowling.

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 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.

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

You got to be street smart I suppose when you bowl in India. You can't bowl at the same pace at the same place. Guys will work you out.

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.

The way I am bowling at the death, it's all thanks to the IPL.

I can get runs much faster if I stay there in the middle to give bowlers more time and cushion.