Economy Rate Quotes

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.

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

It's runs for batsmen which is the criteria for selection and similarly, it is wickets for bowlers which are important.

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

I never look to contain. I always try and take wickets.

Sometimes what happens is you're not getting wickets; you're going for runs. You just want to get away.

I always believe I will take wickets.

You see teams buy a lot of batsmen for a lot of money because they are good batsmen. But you also need good bowlers to get them out or contain the runs.

Bowlers have to accept they will go for runs sometimes.

Runs are important, don't get me wrong, but it will be wickets that I will be judged on.