Keyword: Cricket (Page 2)

Marshall's bowling with his head.

Welcome to Worcester where we have just seen Barry Richards hit one of Basil D'Oliveira's balls clean out of the ground.

cricket announcer

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

English cricketer

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

English cricketer

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

British sports commentator

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

Australian cricketer & commentator

The lights are shining quite darkly.

cricket commentator

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

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

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

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

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

cricket commentator

Glenn McGrath joins Craig McDermott and Paul Reiffel in a three-ponged prace attack.


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

British sports commentator

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

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

Say, when do they begin?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

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

cricket commentator

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

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

There were no scores below single figures.

Australian cricketer & commentator

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

cricket announcer

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

British sports commentator

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

(1912 – 1987) Hungarian-born British author