Keyword: Cricket (Page 2)

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

British sports commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

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

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

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

cricket commentator
Misspokements Sports

Neil Harvey, standing at leg slip with his legs wide apart, waiting for a tickle.

cricket announcer
Misspokements

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

On the first day, Logie decided to chance his arm and it came off.

British sports commentator
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
Misspokements Sports

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

Australian cricketer & commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

Australian cricketer
Misspokements Sports

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


Sports

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
Sports

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

Australian cricketer & commentator
Misspokements Sports

It was close for Zaheer, Lawson threw his hands in the air and Marsh threw his head in the air.

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

cricket announcer
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I'll decide when to write my own obituary.

English cricketer
Misspokements Sports

Say, when do they begin?

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

The lights are shining quite darkly.

cricket commentator
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

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