Bowlers Quotes · Page 2

They come with a lot of strategies in international cricket. You face bowlers with a lot more pace.

— Prithvi Shaw

As a skipper, when you try to manipulate the field, you need to see the strengths of the fast bowlers.

— MS Dhoni

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, /…

— Andrew Lang

I just try and earn my right to get on top of the bowlers, and that is how I play every game.

— AB de Villiers

The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.

— Shane Warne

Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months.

— Glenn McGrath

It's always better for the bowlers to stick to a line and length, and that helps you get wickets.

— Jasprit Bumrah

As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.

— Jonathan Agnew

Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a…

— John Arlott

If they're going to take away a portion of maintaining the ball, there needs to be that even contest between bat and…

— Mitchell Starc

Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he…

— Allan Donald

My dad was opening fast bowler for Yorkshire's second team and I couldn't believe he could die. He wasn't going to get…

— Brian Blessed

I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the…

— Brett Lee

When I first came into the England one-day side and joined the selectors, I wanted to move away from picking what some…

— Nasser Hussain

I have been saying for a long time that bowlers come in packs. When you have a senior bowler in the pack,…

— Wasim Akram

In India you pick teams based on pitches, so it's the bowlers who get changed. if it is a turning pitch a…

— Anil Kumble

I try to hit the ball along the ground, especially against fast bowlers. I also like the bat to come down in…

— Virender Sehwag

Yes, there are absolutely moments when you're running out of ideas, and you do genuinely feel sorry for the bowlers when you…

— Alastair Cook

The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear…

— Stephen King

Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse,…

— John Lahr

I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to…

— Gillian Flynn

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

— John Mortimer

I have always liked to attack the bowlers, and batting is all about getting runs.

— K. L. Rahul

My batting mentality is to see the ball and hit it. I don't know what bowlers see while batting.

— Smriti Mandhana

It really gave me a lot of confidence to know that I could score runs against some really good bowlers.

— Steve Smith

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

— Sachin Tendulkar

In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.

— Ian Peebles

Dale Steyn and Vernon Philander are two world-class bowlers and they have shown it.

— Kane Williamson

Having two bowlers who can exceed 90 mph is a mouth-watering prospect - and something batsmen will not relish one bit.

— James Anderson

England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath

— Stuart Law

I like to be a bowler because I can't bat properly. After 17 years of cricket I have got the opportunities and…

— Muttiah Muralitharan

The Oval has always been a good batting track, and there's not much for the bowlers.

— Bhuvneshwar Kumar

I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.

— Perry Christie

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my…

— Dennis Quaid

If there is someone who is able to swing the ball, I believe I have it in me to swing it a…

— Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had.

— Don Johnson

If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

— David Lloyd

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

— Richie Benaud

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

— Dale Steyn

I played a couple first-class matches at Carlton and Guaracara Park and it was a real burial ground for the fast bowlers.

— Brian Lara