Keyword: Cricket

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

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

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
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Many continentals think life is a game, the English think cricket is a game.

(1912 – 1987) Hungarian-born British author
Sports

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

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

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

British sports commentator
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Cricket shouldn't be used as a political football.

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

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

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

cricket commentator
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David Boon is now completely clean-shaven, except for his moustache.

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
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It is now possible they can get the impossible score they first thought possible.

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

Australian cricketer & commentator
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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
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He’s on 90… 10 away from that mythical figure.

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

(1881–1944) Archbishop of Canterbury
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It is a full house at the Eden Gardens. Today, Calcutta is celebrating the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi!

cricket commentator
Misspokements Sports

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


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