Cricket Skill Quotes

Rahul Dravid being known as 'The Wall' is pretty much spot on. 'The fortress' could also describe Rahul. Because once, Dravid was set, you needed the bowling equivalent of a dozen cannon firing all at once to blast him down.

Archer has an incredible talent. He is one of those fast bowlers who makes it look easy.

Virat Kohli is an ODI batting legend

When I watch Twenty20 cricket, there's a different satisfaction. That hundred you get in six hours is a very satisfying feeling. A real triumph of skill. I don't quite see that in the 20-over game - or the 100-ball game.

In the nets, Joe Root hits the most sixes. He tries to take us down all the time. I think everyone is capable of hitting big sixes and I think I'm the best of all of them. But Jos is the one guy that everyone knows is out front. Jos is power with timing.

Reverse swing is a great asset if it happens.

I would love to bowl 160 km/h. Any fast bowler would love to do that. But for me that is almost impossible.

The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.

Only great players can have two shots for one ball, like Tendulkar does, and a big reason is that he picks the ball very early.

Unless you are a good bowler, you won't be in the India A side.

I have bowled with another leg-spinner in county cricket - Shahid Afridi. But he is a totally different bowler than Mishra. I have a lot of respect for Mishra.

He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.

When it comes to batting, I have a lot of expectations from myself.

I hate when a batsman plays a pull shot off my bowling.

I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.