Bowling Performance Quotes

I feel I can channelise my aggression to the right thing and be a good bowler, a world class bowler.

I felt I bowled well for Barbados, and that helped me.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I'll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I'm thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

You can sometimes bowl extremely well and get no reward.

If you look round the world, most teams want guys who can bowl up at 90 mph because they can make things happen when it isn't doing much.

You know, the bowling alley doesn‘t seem to be improving my game. That‘s the one thing I have noticed.

There will be bowlers who will be having a good day, so it is important to give them their due. At the same time, you have put pressure on other bowlers who are not having an entirely good outing.

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.

As a fast bowler if you're not going to bowl well on a Perth wicket you're going to struggle in Australia.

It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

I have tried to improve on my death bowling.

On Edens Gardens pitch, nobody bowls well.

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

We all know that spinners dominate in Indian conditions, so it's good if medium pacers can get at least two wickets.

I have always maintained that bowlers win you a cricket match whatever the format.

If you bowl good yorkers in nets and come up with good variation, it helps your on-field performance.

Even when you bowl a bad over, try to restrict it in between 15-18 runs, because if you go higher than that, it has a bigger impact on the game.

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

As a bowling unit, you get a lot of confidence if the spinners and pacers are bowling as a team.

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

I never think that I have to be at top every time. Obviously, I have to do well in every game and series; that's what I try to do. I try to improve and work on the swing and variation in my bowling.

As a bowler, there are times when you do not get wickets, and you don't have the numbers to show against your name. But never has the thought crossed my mind that I am not a confident bowler and the wickets are not coming my way.

It is a knowledgeable crowd at Old Trafford and they will also tell you when you are not bowling well.

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

Trent Bridge, 2013, is my favourite Test. An Ashes opener and England won a thriller by 14 runs. I managed to take ten wickets, which helps.