Batting Style Quotes

I have my own batting style and don't want to be compared with Kohli.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

Wiffle ball was my first experience hitting left-handed.

I'm not someone who looks to swing the ball away majorly.

When I see people like Pietersen bat, I wish that I'd freed up a bit as a batsman, but it's very easy to say now.

I want to be a high-order batter in the one-day stuff, to play some long innings rather than just go in and have a swipe.

The arc of Ken Griffey Jr.'s swing has gotten bigger than when he hit line drives. Juan Gonzalez is a terrific power hitter, too.

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.

Batsmen like Gary Kirsten, Boeta Dippenaar and Neil McKenzie have good techniques and can bat for long periods.

I never had a coach teach me, my style of batting, nor do I believe in coaching at an international level.

It makes no difference to me what kind of bat I have. For instance, I often grab the first bat I come across when I go up to the plate. Muggsy McGraw uses a light stick and Jake Stenzel uses a heavy one, but I'm liable to take any one of the miscellaneous lot that falls in my way.

The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

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.

I love to watch Rohit Sharma bat.

He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

I have been pretty free-flowing in my batting. I have not let situations change my batting around too much.

I don't like to follow someone, but I really like A B de Villiers as a batsman. I think he has got all the strokes and plays according to the situation.

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

Working my way through different formats has not changed my batting approach much.

If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them.

Maybe because I bat aggressively and go for big hits at times, people tend to remember my batting. But I have always done well as a stumper, too.

I loved watching AB de Villiers in the early days. I used to follow him closely. I copied him a lot, too. In the nets, I used to at least try some of the shots he played in the matches.

I have been an aggressive batsman since my school days, and I play my game as such.

When I was growing up, I played a lot of ten- and 12-over games, and I would bat in the middle order. I got only ten-odd balls to face, and I tried to score as much as I could. I applied the same approach in domestic and international cricket, and people were appreciating my strike rate being more than 80 or 90 in Test cricket.

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.