A Quote by AB de Villiers

Every wicket you play on is different. — © AB de Villiers
Every wicket you play on is different.
If there is nothing in the wicket for spinners, then it's good to try something different. Over the wicket or around the wicket, just try and create chances.
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.
Every day is different, and every wicket is different. You cannot take things for granted.
Keeping wicket is the worst place to be when out of form. You can't hide at fine leg where you might touch the ball once every 10 overs. Behind the wicket you are involved every ball.
There are very rare occasions when you get a good wicket to bat on, but whatever wicket you get, you have to play at least 20 overs for your side.
Every day is different, and every wicket is different.
If I'm only going to play one more match, I want to take a wicket with every ball, not try and defend a boundary.
I don't mind which wicket you play on - wet, dry, slow, or fast. I just want to play cricket.
Whether you play England, either you play West Indies or Australia, you have to take wicket if you stop any team.
I enjoy wicket-keeping in the shorter format. I think when we are bowling first, it gives me an idea of how the wicket is behaving.
On a normal wicket, the ball goes through quickly after bouncing so it doesn't give the batsman as much time. But on a slow wicket you have to bowl with more effort.
Stuart Broad's 400th Test wicket did not come the way he would have wanted - Tom Latham chipped the ball to mid-wicket - but he will take it nonetheless. It is a fantastic achievement.
It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.
It's all about the conditions and how the wicket is going to behave. We don't know how the nature of wicket is.
When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.
If you are batting first as an opener, you give yourselves a couple of overs, see what's the wicket behaving, and then try to assess what a good score on that wicket would be, and then you plan accordingly.
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