Batting Performance Quotes

I have batted well in Tests and always wanted to do well in ODIs, too.

If you are playing in the right conditions, there is always motivation to bowl fast. If you are playing in the wrong condition then you want to be a batsman.

I have been up and down the batting order and it's difficult. People don't always realise that.

My bats were brilliant. The shape of them changed, and towards the end of my career, they got a little bit bigger.

I don't want to overplay the diary's significance, but it's a really helpful batting aid. It's not an obsession because I don't spend more than 10 or 20 minutes writing a day - and not necessarily every day. I might write in it three days in a row and then not the next four. It depends on the situation.

Obviously, when I go in at No. 11 it stands to reason that we will have a better chance of scoring runs or batting out time if the batsman at the other end takes most of the strike. That's because, as my place in the order suggests, he is a better batsman than me.

It's very important in international cricket to be able to hold a bat, not just hold up an end, but have the ability to score runs.

I appreciate every batsman in the world for different reasons. If I want someone to tough it out in the middle, I'd pick Steve Waugh. If I want someone who I know is going to have the technique to survive, you want a player like Tendulkar.

I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.

It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

Obviously, there's not as much flex in a wood bat as in a metal bat, so I'm still trying to adjust to that.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.

Teams expect a lot from an opening batsman. It is a lot of responsibility.

Keeping wicket is the worst place to be when out of form. You can't hide at fine leg where you might touch the ball once every 10 overs. Behind the wicket you are involved every ball.

Ask any batsman what gives him maximum satisfaction. It's scoring runs, whether it's Ranji Trophy or any form of the game. When you get back to your room, knowing that you have scored a hundred, it gives you satisfaction.

The Oval has always been a good batting track, and there's not much for the bowlers.

I sort of know my role with the ball but with the bat I've been up and down the order quite a few times.

It's runs for batsmen which is the criteria for selection and similarly, it is wickets for bowlers which are important.

I certainly do not want to be remembered as a good captain who perhaps didn't contribute with the bat as much as he might have done.

From a purely selfish, batting point of view, I couldn't bat any better than the 2010-11 Ashes and then in India in 2012. That was as good as I could play.

I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them.

I am a great admirer of Yuvraj and Kaif. They have generally been able to pick up the scoring when they come to bat at numbers six and seven. They also are livewires in the field.

If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.

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.