Speed can't always get you wickets.
The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.
In red ball cricket, with the field placements, you can look around, take your time, because you have five days to play, whereas in limited overs cricket, you have limited number of balls to play and score.
The way you get wickets is, you've got to build pressure.
New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
When I was growing up, we would play a 10-over or 15-over game, and the asking-rate would always be high, and I would end up scoring 30 or 40 runs in 15 balls, so I built that mindset right from the beginning and still continue to bat in the same manner.
Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.
As bowlers, we don't worry about the wickets, whether they are flat or not.
I'll tell you something about Glenn McGrath - he was a much better bowler than me. This is not false modesty.
When you always walk into the middle with green and gold, I just want to take 10 wickets every game.
I was just 17 when I made my debut for Lancashire against Hampshire at Portsmouth. I got seven and a duck. I didn't get a wicket, either. Funnily enough, it was more nerve-wracking than playing for England.
I always love challenges, and when I bowl, I always look to get wickets.
The wickets in England are very helpful to me.
Test cricket is the ultimate challenge.
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.
Sometimes what happens is you're not getting wickets; you're going for runs. You just want to get away.
I always believe I will take wickets.
It would obviously be a big deal to reach 500 wickets but I don't see it as a target or goal, it's not something that has driven me on.
Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
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.
Absolutely, I used to run very fast between the wickets.
Runs are important, don't get me wrong, but it will be wickets that I will be judged on.
Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.
Rishabh Pant whenever he has got away from Delhi on good pitches, hard pitches where there is carry, he has been exceptional with the bat.
To win Test matches consistently you've got to take 20 wickets - yes, you've got to score runs but if you can't bowl a team out it doesn't matter how many runs you score.
