Keyword: Cricket

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


Sports Wordplay

Cricket shouldn't be used as a political football.

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

Australian cricketer & commentator
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That’s cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in boxing.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
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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

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

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

British sports commentator
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His feet were a long way away from his body!

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

(1881–1944) Archbishop of Canterbury
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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
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He's usually a good puller – but he couldn't get it up that time.

Australian cricketer & commentator
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Laird has been brought in to stand in the corner of the circle.

Australian cricketer & commentator
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I wish you were a statue and I were a pigeon.

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

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

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

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

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

cricket commentator
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Cricket is baseball on valium.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor
Baseball Sports

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

British sports commentator
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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
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