Keyword: Cricket (Page 2)

Cricket shouldn't be used as a political football.

English cricketer
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It's been very slow and dull day, but it hasn't been boring. It's been a good, entertaining day's cricket.

Cricket commentator
Sports

I always insist that my team be in bed before breakfast.

English cricketer
Sports

I wish you were a statue and I were a pigeon.

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

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

Australian cricketer & commentator
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It would be unprintable on television.

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

Australian cricketer
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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
Sports

The lights are shining quite darkly.

cricket commentator
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Marshall's bowling with his head.

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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 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

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

cricket announcer
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That was a tremendous six. The ball was still in the air as it went over the boundary.

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


Sports Wordplay

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

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

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

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

Australian cricketer
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It is a catch he would have held 99 times out of one thousand.

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

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

British sports commentator
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