Bowling Accuracy Quotes

In terms of pace, every captain wants pace in their attack.

Archer has a loose-limbed approach in a run-up that is not very long. He gets into a good position at the crease and releases the ball late from a very high action. He snaps the ball down at genuine pace. He has rhythm to his bowling.

I don't bowl at 140 kmph or 150 kmph, so my best chance of getting the batsmen out is by bowling in the right areas and getting it to swing.

People say that because I'm short I get a lot more skid off the pitch.

I could bowl really fast and as the years went on I started to develop more skills - I learnt how to swing the ball a little bit, use the crease a little bit more. But I knew what my skill was and that was to run in and bowl fast.

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

If you are playing in the right conditions, there is always motivation to bowl fast. If you are playing in the wrong condition then you want to be a batsman.

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.

If you look round the world, most teams want guys who can bowl up at 90 mph because they can make things happen when it isn't doing much.

What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.

I used to bowl a lot at the death while bowling in the IPL, but it serves as a confidence booster that I can do a lot more with the ball at the start of the innings and at the death.

I guess bowling is pretty mechanical. It's kind of a natural motion, but you have to stick within those mechanics.

If I can bat against someone who is bowling 145 kph on a challenging wicket - that confidence is really important.

Since coming into T20s, I have improved a lot in the death overs.

With my bowling, I didn't know how I was doing it, so when it went wrong I didn't know how to fix it.

The one thing you can't do is get carried away with that pace and bounce. There's a temptation to charge in and just slam the ball into the pitch and you can end up bowling too short. You still have to bowl the right length so that you threaten to take wickets.

The way you get wickets is, you've got to build pressure.

The thing I've got to concentrate on for South Africa is bowling at good pace and if the ball is in the right area that will cause enough trouble.

You can't make three or four spinners bowl the exact number of overs. You don't see the number of overs bowled by them before you make a bowling change; you see who looks effective and make a bowling change.

I mean everyone's always spoken about fast bowlers and especially myself as a strike bowler, but I look at myself as somebody who could hold down the runs, you know, over 200 games, I've taken a lot of wickets but I've got a pretty decent economy rate.

I have tried to improve on my death bowling.

It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

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

What we have learned is that Roland-Jones is a very promising prospect. Because of the way he bowls, he will not blow batsmen away, but is more likely to take wickets through accuracy and building pressure.

As a bowler I think I am more wicket-based than some.