Bowling Quotes

I think a lot when I'm on my own - and much of it is about cricket.

I have always enjoyed playing as a batsman. In the T20 format, I have been asked to play at six or seven. I have finished a few innings batting first and a few chasing. It feels good and it feels like yes I can do it.

I was a sportsman and played cricket all my life.

I don't think any bowler can trouble me much.

This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.

I always look to perform with the bat and the ball and do good for my team.

When you go to Australia you are always asked whether you can perform in hostile environments against high pace and every Australian side I have played against has had guys bowling over 90mph.

I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.'

You want perfection, go to a bowling alley!

Cricket is my first love.

If you're playing Test cricket you could bowl 20 overs in a day. I could play about five T20s in that space.

I kind of feel like curling combines this weird vision of people sliding down a lane, and it looks like it combines bowling and every bar game I've ever played. But I still don't understand what the hell it is.

I have put in a lot of work on my bowling.

I do enjoy batting - if the bowling's not quick!

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.

The 'Natmeg' from England's Natalie Sciver attracted a lot of attention as a brilliant piece of improvisation, which requires every bit as much talent as a Tillakaratne Dilshan 'scoop,' or a Jos Buttler 'ramp' shot.

Right through school, I was a handy cricketer, a batsman and a left-arm spinner who bowled leg breaks.

Speed can't always get you wickets.

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've been bowling for so long, and I really, really enjoy it.

I'm grown up enough to realise how to play cricket. I love the game.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses

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

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.

If I'm only going to play one more match, I want to take a wicket with every ball, not try and defend a boundary.