Batsman's Quotes

#1. A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England

Tony Greig

#2. The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

John Arlott

#3. Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.

W. G. Grace

#4. Sachin Tendulkar is the hardest batsman I've ever had to bowl to because he judges the length a lot quicker than anyone else.

Shane Warne

#5. For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a way of attacking rather than setting attacking fields.

Harbhajan Singh

#6. The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

#7. Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.

Shane Warne

#8. If a martian were to land on earth now and be told that the best batsman in the world was playing in this match, he would think it was Rahul Dravid and not Sachin Tendulkar.

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

#9. The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still gets nine runs. To avoid that, I need to plan in a way where he must look to hit wherever there is a fielder. That is what is called 'bowling to the field.'

Harbhajan Singh

#10. Today, he showed the world why he is considered the best batsman around. Some of the shots he played were simply amazing. Earlier, opposing teams used to feel that Sachin's dismissal meant they could win the game. Today, I feel that the Indian players, too, feel this way.

Wasim Akram

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

Richie Benaud

#12. A batsman goes out and is then in until he gets out. This goes on until the last batsman is out, apart from one who is still in and therefore not out.

Pippa Middleton

#13. I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.

Gautam Gambhir

#14. The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.

Virat Kohli

#15. I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.

Harbhajan Singh

#16. He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease.

Greg Chappell

#17. I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.

Kapil Dev

#18. A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.

Harbhajan Singh

#19. I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.

W. G. Grace

#20. Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.

John Arlott

#21. Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.

G.H. Hardy

#22. I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?

Sachin Tendulkar

#23. A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

Neville Cardus

#24. As an international batsman, I have to come out to bat under any situation. Sometimes a platform has been laid; on others, we have to build one. That's part of our job, and that's why international cricket is so challenging.

Suresh Raina

#25. The thing about India is that while they will miss Sachin, they have the ability to put out another batsman nearly as good.

Michael Vaughan

#26. Even though Sachin is great, I have always found Rahul more solid and hard to get out. He has a solid defense and plays less shots than others. When a batsman plays less shots then it is tough to get him as he makes less mistakes.

Shoaib Akhtar

#27. Sehwag is the most unpredictable batsman i have ever seen in my career

Glenn McGrath

#28. 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.

Jeff Thomson

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

Ian Peebles

#30. In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to bowl at the master batsman even though one hasn't always emerged with credit from the engagements.

Allan Donald

#31. I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

Andrew Lang

#32. Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.

Richie Benaud

#33. You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.

Harbhajan Singh

#34. As of now, Virat Kohli is the greatest batsman of the world

Sourav Ganguly

#35. The only batsman I would love to see by paying for the tickets and sitting in the stand just to watch him is none other than Sachin Tendulkar

Brian Lara

#36. It was not his job at square leg to inform the batsman what I was doing. I did nothing for which I need to apologise.

Mike Gatting