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

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

Australian cricketer & commentator
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It was close for Zaheer, Lawson threw his hands in the air and Marsh threw his head in the air.

cricket commentator
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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
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If England lose now, they will be leaving the field with their heads between their legs!

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

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

Fred Titmus has two short legs, one of them square.

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

British sports commentator
Misspokements Sports

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


Sports Wordplay

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

I'll decide when to write my own obituary.

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

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

(1881–1944) Archbishop of Canterbury
Sports

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

British sports commentator
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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
Sports

Many continentals think life is a game, the English think cricket is a game.

(1912 – 1987) Hungarian-born British author
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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
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I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying, ‘I don't want to bore you with the details.’

(1964 – ) English comedian
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It is now possible they can get the impossible score they first thought possible.

British cricket journalist
Misspokements Sports

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

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

Those are the only balls you've touched all day!

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