Pace Bowling Quotes

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.

Roland-Jones is a good, old-fashioned English seamer. He's not especially quick, but he pitches the ball up and swings it away, which is always dangerous.

In T20, I think it's really valuable to have a bowler who can bring the ball back into the right hander at pace.

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

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.

According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against - Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

The likes of Ishant Sharma and Bhuvneshwar Kumar have done well, and so has Jasprit Bumrah in shorter formats.

The history of Test cricket will suggest if you hold the top of off longer than anyone else you will have success, in England particularly it's about owning the top of off.

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

Great fast bowlers don't have to worry about whether the track is flat or green. They'll find a way to get wickets.

That is one of the great things about Test cricket, the ball. Sometimes it swings conventionally, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it reverses.

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.

We all know that spinners dominate in Indian conditions, so it's good if medium pacers can get at least two wickets.

Shankar Basu introduced me to a different type of training that eventually helped me increase my pace. That, in turn, went on to help me bowl at the death, too.

As a bowling unit, you get a lot of confidence if the spinners and pacers are bowling as a team.