Strike Rate Quotes

I do enjoy batting - if the bowling's not quick!

I have put in a lot of work on my bowling.

In T20, even when you are in form and you feel like you are making good contributions, you are going to only face 30 or maximum 40 balls in the position where I bat in the middle order.

Chris Gayle is an incredible player. A big guy, with phenomenal power and a very big bat. It's quite the combo.

Michael Bisping, we had a five round battle. I beat him for five rounds and tripled the amount of strikes landed. I landed more take-downs in that fight than had been landed on him in his entire career.

If I'm only going to play one more match, I want to take a wicket with every ball, not try and defend a boundary.

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

You do your best but I think I'm going to try and get back in as a batsman first, spinner second.

Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock were my heroes, so I thought averaging 22 or 23 and taking five-wicket hauls was normal.

I want to be a high-order batter in the one-day stuff, to play some long innings rather than just go in and have a swipe.

Of course, every batsman gets out. I know that. It is almost inevitable that no matter what you do, you will get out at some point or the other.

Obviously, when I go in at No. 11 it stands to reason that we will have a better chance of scoring runs or batting out time if the batsman at the other end takes most of the strike. That's because, as my place in the order suggests, he is a better batsman than me.

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

It is scary when bowling how hard batsmen hit it now.

When I grew up, I tried to score off every ball, be it a 10-over-match, a 20-over, or even a Test match. If I stay in the wicket for, say, about 30 minutes, I want to make the most of it and score maximum runs possible. You never know when you get out; try to score as much possible before that.

Mike Trout. Jose Ramírez. Mookie Betts. All these guys walk, and they swing at strikes.

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.

I think Rohit Sharma is an awesome player in all varieties of the game.

I try to keep the ball up to the bat, and I usually get the ball to outswing, so I get wickets like that.

I love to watch Rohit Sharma bat.

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.

When you start off a T20 innings you want someone who is going to be hitting the top of off stump, causing problems and being quite disciplined with the ball.

When I was growing up, we would play a 10-over or 15-over game, and the asking-rate would always be high, and I would end up scoring 30 or 40 runs in 15 balls, so I built that mindset right from the beginning and still continue to bat in the same manner.

I want to bowl fast till I retire.

I'm trying to make sure that I get to my 0-2, 1-2 counts. That's really how I would rather phrase it: I'm trying to make sure that I can drive the count into my favor.