Bhuvneshwar Kumar Quotes

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

Reverse swing is a great asset if it happens.

As bowlers, we don't worry about the wickets, whether they are flat or not.

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

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.

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner - even for a fast bowler, that holds true.

Being a swing bowler, bowling at the death is just an added facet in my bowling.

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

You have to respect the bowler, and every batsmen have their way of tackling the spinners.

One of my aims is to be the fastest and regarded as the best fast bowler in the world.

I try to keep the ball up to the bat, and I usually get the ball to outswing, so I get wickets like that.

When I started playing cricket, I knew that my physique is not at all like a typical fast bowler. My body language is also different, and I am not aggressive by nature; thus, my focus was always on my skills.

When I bowled to batters like Michael Vaughan or Jacques Kallis who were classical, technically perfect, sound batters, I always found that I could get them out.

I don't know what it is about fast bowling. I guess it's the ability to do something that nobody else can really do.

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

There are many things that you just observe while watching Steyn. Just seeing him bowl is a great learning in itself.

Actually I started out as a fast bowler but people told me that I was chucking the ball, so i changed to spin.

Fast bowling is not an easy job. Especially if you are also a batsman as well as being a fast bowler, a fast bowler has to work harder than any other cricketer on his fitness.

(James) Anderson has a gift from the gods: he could swing an orange.

Over the years I have been watching Pakistan when playing against them or with them in county cricket. And they have been brilliant bowlers and batsmen and great individuals.

There's little that's subtle about Hardus Viljoen - he's a broad-chested, broad-shouldered fast bowler, who simply trundles up to the wicket and hurls it down as fast as possible.

I will bowl defensively if I have to.

So for me Tendulkar is the greatest but Kohli is not far behind and could well end up as the greatest.

When I was a youngster, Praveen Kumar was in the same club as me, and because we are similar bowlers, I learnt a lot from him. We used to have conversations, but not a lot. What was very helpful was observing what he was bowling, the kind of fields he had, and what his thinking was.