Keyword: Cricket

I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying, ‘I don't want to bore you with the details.’

(1964 – ) English comedian

The black cloud is coming from the direction the wind is blowing. Now the wind is coming from where the black cloud is!

English cricketer & commentator

Fast bowlers are quick. Just watch this – admittedly it is in slow motion.

Australian cricketer

The batsman’s is Holding, the bowler’s Willey.

cricket announcer

I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. It doesn't worry me in the least to see a batsman hurt, rolling around screaming and blood on the pitch.

Australian crickete

You rejoin us at a very appropriate time – Ray Illingworth has just relieved himself at the pavilion end!

cricket announcer

That slow motion doesn't show how fast the ball was traveling.

Australian cricketer & commentator

Send ‘im’ down a piano, see if ‘e can play that!

Stephen Gascoigne (1878 – 1942) Australian sports fan & heckler

He's usually a good puller – but he couldn't get it up that time.

Australian cricketer & commentator

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

Australian actor

It is a full house at the Eden Gardens. Today, Calcutta is celebrating the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi!

cricket commentator

Cricket is a game which the British, not being a spiritual people, had to invent in order to have some concept of eternity.

British politician

His throw went absolutely nowhere near where it was going.

Australian cricketer & commentator

No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play.

British sports commentator

Personally, I have always looked upon cricket as organized loafing.

(1881–1944) Archbishop of Canterbury

Marshall's bowling with his head.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

It's funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan, it's when you realize that your wife left you in May.

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter

He is a very dangerous bowler… innocuous, if you like.

cricket coach

The Queen's Park Oval -– as its name suggests, absolutely round!

cricket commentator

Chappell just stood on his feet and smashed it to the boundary.

cricket commentator