It always gives you pleasure when you score runs in Test cricket.
What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.
The one thing you can't do is get carried away with that pace and bounce. There's a temptation to charge in and just slam the ball into the pitch and you can end up bowling too short. You still have to bowl the right length so that you threaten to take wickets.
I felt I have gifted my wicket. So more than technique, I need to work on my shot selection, I need to decide which ball to be hit, I was going for every shot.
When I'm running in to bowl, I am always thinking of taking a wicket.
An IPL match may be decided when the ball passes inches beyond the grasp of a fielder on the boundary or when a direct hit catches a batsman inches short of the crease.
I try to keep the ball up to the bat, and I usually get the ball to outswing, so I get wickets like that.
From a personal standpoint, my ability to play all around the wicket is more mindset than anything else.
If someone wants to try to hit a spinner over mid-on, with the ball turning away from the blade, there is a chance of taking a wicket.
I always breathe cricket.
I really don't plan whether I would dance after taking a wicket or not.
I like it when the captain comes to me and says, 'We're really desperate for a wicket, can you get us one?' or when we really need something to happen in a Test match.
On Edens Gardens pitch, nobody bowls well.
In the past I've thrown my wicket away on certain occasions.
When you create pressure in the previous over for your partner to strike, it is sometimes as satisfying as picking up a wicket yourself.
When I play a cover-drive, I play it to score runs.
Great fast bowlers don't have to worry about whether the track is flat or green. They'll find a way to get wickets.
I have had a bowl with the pink ball but it was in a day game at Wormsley.
Every day is different, and every wicket is different. You cannot take things for granted.
I know my technique suits all sorts of wickets, so I just back myself.
I started playing cricket with my brother in our back garden when I was eight. The garden was long and thin, so it was perfect for us to play cricket in. We'd use a crate as the wicket. We broke quite a few windows.
Lord's is such a special place and to get my first and now my 500th wickets here is something that will live with me for a long time.
Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.
That happens on a cricket field. People have a go at each other. That's fair, that's fine. It's called Test cricket. It's not a day in the park.
A bowler will always say it's a batsman's game.
