Fast Bowler Quotes

An out-and-out fast bowler is one of the great sights in cricket.

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.

Alzarri Joseph is someone who I look at and say 'this guys has got potential, he's a wicket-taker.' He is someone who I'd like to see do well.

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.

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

I want to bowl fast till I retire.

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.

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

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.

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

I'll tell you something about Glenn McGrath - he was a much better bowler than me. This is not false modesty.

England fans should be pretty happy to have Jofra Archer in their Test team - because he is something special.

I heard a lot about Ian Botham's Ashes, in 1981. Everybody still talks about his performance.

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.

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

Stuart Broad's 400th Test wicket did not come the way he would have wanted - Tom Latham chipped the ball to mid-wicket - but he will take it nonetheless. It is a fantastic achievement.

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

As a fast bowler, if you are out of the game for five months, then that can be catastrophic, but to be out of the game for five years was very tough, and to make a comeback after such a lengthy period with no cricket behind me was a difficult ask.

I was lucky that I got to open for Delhi Daredevils. I got more deliveries to face.

It was Test cricket as it should be played, when the irresistible force in Allan Donald met the immovable object in Mike Atherton at Trent Bridge in 1998. And I was happy to watch from the best seat in the house - at the other end.

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

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.

Glenn McGrath's my hero, so I did a lot of reading on him when I was growing up.

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

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