Opening Batsman Quotes

I'm expecting big things from our bowlers, from Peter Siddle, who plays the enforcer role, Stuart Clark, Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee when he gets fit again. In batting, there's Phil Hughes, whose already done well for Australia and scored hundreds for Middlesex.

I have always wanted to play at the top of the order.

When you start off a T20 innings you want someone who is going to be hitting the top of off stump, causing problems and being quite disciplined with the ball.

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

Those first few overs are obviously the most difficult time because you don't know what the ball is going to do in the air and off the seam.

If you are batting first as an opener, you give yourselves a couple of overs, see what's the wicket behaving, and then try to assess what a good score on that wicket would be, and then you plan accordingly.

I was lucky that I got to open for Delhi Daredevils. I got more deliveries to face.

Whenever I get opportunities at the top of the order, that's the position I enjoy.

As an opening batsman, it's my responsibility to spend as much time in the middle as I can and try and get big scores in the first innings so that we don't have to bat in the second innings.

I have high expectations from Babar Azam and Imam-ul Haq.

I love that feeling of being in a battle with the new ball, you're getting an opening batsman out while they are desperate to survive.

In the middle order the game is a little more laid out for you, whether you are batting first or chasing down a score, so you are a bit more reactive to the situation in front of you. Opening up, it is pretty much a blank canvas and dependent on how you play.

That's where I would love to bat, and I have always batted at the top of the order. Numbers one and two are what I am most comfortable in.

I saw Len Hutton in his prime, Another time, another time.

For an opening batsman, it's important to hit a few balls in the middle of the bat and get a few boundaries going.