IMRAN TAHIR

I love to help kids, especially spinners, in South Africa. You won't see many guys bowling legspin, so I want to try to see if I can develop another Imran Tahir.

The off spinner's job is to contain; for me, leg spinners need to have a bigger heart than anyone else because it is easy to blame them.

I believe one should work hard to get what you want.

I really can't pinpoint why I celebrate the way I do. I just love it when I pick a wicket, and it comes naturally to me to express my joy in the manner that I do.

I will do what my team wants me to do and justify my place in the side.

Playing with MSD, getting his advice and learning a lot from him, and I am really, really happy to be part of CSK.

It's always nice to be in England - I love it here.

When I go to bed after playing a Test match, I want to feel that I gave 100%.

Thanks to technology, you can sit and see the opposition's mistakes and try to learn from them.

I am more South African than Pakistani now. It's a great country, and I have met so many nice people.

I don't think it is difficult to balance professional sports with practising your faith. It is very easy if you follow the right path.

For me, what is important is, as a legspinner, you need determination, especially in modern-day cricket. You need to feel that you can change a game.

Losses are always hard to swallow, and every sportsperson has the same feeling.

Whenever I have time, I do my fitness. I go running on my own on Sundays or on Eid. I'd rather gym every day than go watch movies.

Abdul Qadir was my main role model. I just wanted to be like him because, for me, he was only guy who no one could read. He was that good. His passion, his love for legspin, was unique. He would create new things all the time: flippers, sliders, three to four kinds of googlies, legspinners, topspinners.

I can't see myself playing anywhere else in the world. You don't know how much I want to play international cricket for South Africa.

The wickets in England are very helpful to me.

My biggest ambition, ever since I was a boy in Pakistan, has been to play cricket at the highest level. If I can do so for South Africa, I'll give everything.

There is always a pressure if you play every game and especially when you are representing your country.

Spinners have a main role, whether in the IPL or world cricket. But it's hard to be a legspinner: you have to be accurate.

Leg spinners can change the game.

The best players of the world play in the IPL, and to bowl to them in T20 cricket isn't easy.

I've been playing cricket for quite a long time all over the world, and all the situations I have been in have given me confidence.

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

The start of the English county season - from April to mid-May when it's cold - is the same as South Africa because it seams and swings. After that, the ball starts spinning nicely, and that's when I get my wickets.