Quote

I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.

I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

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

The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

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

I vividly remember bowling 20 + games a day, 2 or 3 times a week.

In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.