Keyword: Cricket (Page 2)

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

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

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


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

cricket commentator

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

British sports commentator

Marshall's bowling with his head.

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

cricket announcer

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

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

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

(1881–1944) Archbishop of Canterbury

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

He’s on 90… 10 away from that mythical figure.

British sports commentator

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

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

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

The lights are shining quite darkly.

cricket commentator

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

(1964 – ) English comedian

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

Australian cricketer

His throw went absolutely nowhere near where it was going.

Australian cricketer & commentator

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

cricket commentator

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

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

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