Bowling Action Quotes

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

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

Right through school, I was a handy cricketer, a batsman and a left-arm spinner who bowled leg breaks.

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.

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 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'm running in to bowl, I am always thinking of taking a wicket.

Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

Bumrah has a different action, which creates problems for the batsmen. He has improved a lot of things with his action. He had these yorkers, and slower ones earlier as well, but he has improved a lot.

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.

If you are good enough to play international cricket, you can take wickets - but you have to bowl the right length.

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.

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

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

It is a knowledgeable crowd at Old Trafford and they will also tell you when you are not bowling well.