Keyword: Cricket (Page 3)

Cricket shouldn't be used as a political football.

English cricketer
Misspokements Sports

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

English cricketer
Sports

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Boxing Colemanballs Misspokements 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
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No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play.

British sports commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

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

I'll decide when to write my own obituary.

English cricketer
Misspokements 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

There were no scores below single figures.

Australian cricketer & commentator
Misspokements 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

It would be unprintable on television.

English cricketer
Misspokements Sports

Cricket: A game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

Definitions Sports

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


Sports Wordplay

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

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

cricket commentator
Misspokements Sports

Cricket is baseball on valium.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor
Baseball Sports

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


Sports