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Camarin and I are both baffled by the pleasure humans find with bowling. The noise is maddening, the equipment unsanitary, and the repetition boring.
Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
We're going bowling?' I can't keep the disappointment of of my voice. Bowling is not badass.
You can never find the right bowling ball. This one's too heavy. This one's good but its pink!
I am an avid drinker with a serious bowling problem.
I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.
I'm not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself.
Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.
The Prince of Calcutta. Two of his special qualities are his intelligence and articulation, both of which have helped him immensely in the world of contemporary cricket.
I dont know what to bowl at him. I bowled an inswinger and he drove me through covers of the front foot. Then I bowled an outswinger and he again punched through covers of the backfoot. He is the toughest batsmen I've bowled to. He shold live long and score lots of runs, but not against Pakistan.
I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.
England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.
Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha.
No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.
I bowled a 129. It's like- It was like the Special Olympics.
The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.
Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.
I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.
A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.
I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler.
When I played football, I liked being a goalkeeper or a midfielder. I was probably better at cricket. I would be a very good cricketer if I was a professional now. I think I would probably have been the best, in fact.
Bowling would be more interesting if it were slightly uphill.
"You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress."
I vividly remember bowling 20 + games a day, 2 or 3 times a week.
The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.
There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against - Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.
An excellent angler, and now with God.
I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss.
Bowling, I like bowling. I've been getting into this bowling thing. It's kinda fun.
Every bowling center should have a house pro.
Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? This title offends all three major religions, and even vegetarians!
I forget it's Shane Warne and just think of him as any old bowler lobbing down a lump of leather.
How many diamonds can you retrieve from one single mine; there has to be an end somewhere. I don't see any natural fast bowler after me.
I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events.
Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.
There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.
Call me 'Tuk-Tuk', and keep saying it, but remember I am the captain of Pakistan.
I can't tell you how many life lessons I've learned through bowling. Time management, finding balance in life, how to lose, how to win, how to bowl as a team and deal with people. How to do something I love to do and inspire other people.
Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.
Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to give the public my interpretation of its character in the same way that a pianist might interpret the works of Beethoven.
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
Everyone has a bowling story. I love bowling because you can do it at age 2 - my son started when he learned to walk - or you can bowl at 102. It's great for families.
There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.
Cock his head this way and that. Called him Cricket, on
I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school.
You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick.
In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer.
What cricket? Grasshopper?
Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.
Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.
What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?
I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. I like to see blood on the pitch. And I've been training on whisky.
Cricket? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!
Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.
I throw 70 miles an hour. That's throwing like a girl.
Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.
"Really, there are two types of people who go bowling. There are people who really, really love bowling. Then there are the people that are like: wouldn't it be hysterical if we went bowling?"
Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments.
Some people have their own bowling ball and their own bowling shoes ... and no friends.
There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.
A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England
I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.
I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.
In the modern game, you're a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist
or a hard court specialist ... or you're Roger Federer.
You just Sanisa in the death overs. He is simply the best in the world.
I hold the ratchet unorthodox. Pernell Whittaker, I'm duckin' all sorts of shots
If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.
Virat Kohli is an ODI batting legend
Sachin Tendulkar is the hardest batsman I've ever had to bowl to because he judges the length a lot quicker than anyone else.
Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world
CRAIG DAVIDSON Medium Tough
Cricket is my first love.
He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.
I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis.
A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.
I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike.
But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.
rolling eye balls
England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath
I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.
I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can.
Speed can't always get you wickets.
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.
I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling.
A pitcher is worth a thousand worts.
rang with proficiency
A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
For me, fielding is everything - it is a passion that comes from within. You can get a bad ball while you bat, and your bowling may not always be up there, but you are completely in control of how well you field.
My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team's strength. But a rank turner might backfire.
The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.
I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.
It's a good thing we're pretty to look at," I said as Lend sat down on the orange plastic seats next to me. "Because we don't have much else going for us as bowlers.
Bowl better, Bat better, Catch better, communicate better ... Just bloody play better ... I am now available for Selection of Australia..!!!!!
I have been trained to throw many, many pitches.
But eventually it is a game of cricket.
Who is the player and who's being played?