Pieter Malan Quotes
born 1989 South Africa
Pieter Jacobus Malan (born 13 August 1989) is a South African professional cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and bowls right-arm medium-fast.
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It’s also a matter of opportunities and them being limited and not taking them when I got them.
That’s not pressure, that’s privilege. Pressure is playing out there in a semi-pro game, nobody watching, and you’re fighting for your career.
Especially as a new-ball player, you want to make them bowl at you. In South Africa, it’s tough opening the batting.
But I do enjoy the gym. That’s where I go to switch off, put the music on and train and get away from whatever is going on around me
There’s a lot of things happening; there’s nip, there’s bounce. So the less you can give the bowlers, the better. In their third and fourth spells, that’s where the real runs are.
I took a lot of stuff for granted, and didn’t put in the hard work that, in hindsight, I needed to put in.
I’ve seen that photograph. I don’t do a lot of arms, actually. They should have taken a shot of my legs — that’s where I spend most of my time.
I felt very privileged to be in a position to fight for the team and try and bat long and just be there for as long as I can.
Being out there, the Barmy Army cheering, Jimmy Anderson running in, it felt like a video game at some stage. It was unbelievable.
In the last three or four years, that’s been a massive part of my game — leaving the ball well and eliminating dismissals that I felt were soft.
I don’t think I did myself any favours when I was younger