Keyword: Cricket

I don’t think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter
Sports

In the back of Hughes' mind must be the thought that he will dance down the piss and mitch one.


Sports Wordplay

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

(1964 – ) English comedian
Sports

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

cricket commentator
Misspokements Sports

Well, there’s only one thing I can say after that over, and that’s to clap my hands.

British sports commentator
Misspokements Sports

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
People Sports Time

Personally, I’ve always looks upon cricket as organized loafing.

(1881–1944) Archbishop of Canterbury
Sports

Neil Harvey, standing at leg slip with his legs wide apart, waiting for a tickle.

cricket announcer
Misspokements

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
England People Places Sports Time

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

(1881–1944) Archbishop of Canterbury
Sports

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
Sports

On the first day, Logie decided to chance his arm and it came off.

British sports commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Baseball Sports Time

Oi, leave our flies alone, Jardine. They’re the only friends you’ve got here.

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

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

cricket announcer
Misspokements Sports

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

Australian cricketer & commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

cricket announcer
Misspokements Sports

Then there was that dark horse with the golden arm, Mudassar Nazar.

British sports commentator
Sports

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

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

David Boon is now completely clean-shaven, except for his moustache.

Australian cricketer
Misspokements Sports

It would be unprintable on television.

English cricketer
Misspokements Sports