Bowling Average Quotes

I loved playing at Lord's - I ended up with 26 wickets at 11.50 from three Tests there. Maybe the wicket, because of the slope, was perfect for my style of bowling.

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

I want to bowl fast till I retire.

I mean everyone's always spoken about fast bowlers and especially myself as a strike bowler, but I look at myself as somebody who could hold down the runs, you know, over 200 games, I've taken a lot of wickets but I've got a pretty decent economy rate.

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

I'll tell you something about Glenn McGrath - he was a much better bowler than me. This is not false modesty.

As a bowler I think I am more wicket-based than some.

Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.

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

I am now bowling 135 clicks at times, and yeah, it's good.

I always love challenges, and when I bowl, I always look to get wickets.

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

There is no doubt that Nathan Lyon is a great spinner but so were Shane Warne, Muttiah Muralitharan and Graeme Swann.

I have always been an attacking bowler. I am more than happy to go for a few runs and get a few wickets.

I always believe I will take wickets.

A bowler will always say it's a batsman's game.

If you bowl well early in the innings, it is also important to finish well.

Bowlers have to accept they will go for runs sometimes.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.