Keyword: Cricket (Page 3)

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

Australian cricketer & commentator
Misspokements Sports

He is a very dangerous bowler… innocuous, if you like.

cricket coach
Misspokements Sports

That’s cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in boxing.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Boxing Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

Marshall's bowling with his head.

Misspokements Sports

His throw went absolutely nowhere near where it was going.

Australian cricketer & commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

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

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

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

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

(1964 – ) English comedian
Sports

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.


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

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

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

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

English cricketer
Misspokements Sports

Say, when do they begin?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Sports

There were no scores below single figures.

Australian cricketer & commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

English cricketer
Misspokements Sports

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


Sports Wordplay

The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
England People Places Sports Time