Keyword: Cricket (Page 2)

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

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

cricket announcer
Misspokements Sports

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

(1881–1944) Archbishop of Canterbury
Sports

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
Misspokements Sports

Cricket is baseball on valium.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor
Baseball Sports

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
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

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

(1964 – ) English comedian
Sports

Laird has been brought in to stand in the corner of the circle.

Australian cricketer & commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

Australian cricketer & commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

Misspokements Sports

No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play.

British sports commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

Australian cricketer & commentator
Misspokements Sports

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
Sports

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

British sports commentator
Malaprops Sports

I'll decide when to write my own obituary.

English cricketer
Misspokements Sports

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

(1912 – 1987) Hungarian-born British author
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

Turner looks a bit shaky and unsteady, but I think he's going to bat on – one ball left.

Sports

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

English cricketer
Misspokements Sports

Cricket shouldn't be used as a political football.

English cricketer
Misspokements Sports