Keyword: Cricket (Page 2)

It's been very slow and dull day, but it hasn't been boring. It's been a good, entertaining day's cricket.

Cricket commentator

It is a full house at the Eden Gardens. Today, Calcutta is celebrating the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi!

cricket commentator

It is now possible they can get the impossible score they first thought possible.

British cricket journalist

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

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


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

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

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

Australian cricketer & commentator

Marshall's bowling with his head.

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

Australian cricketer & commentator

His feet were a long way away from his body!

Indian cricketer

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Fred Titmus has two short legs, one of them square.

It would be unprintable on television.

English cricketer

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

Australian cricketer & commentator

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

British sports commentator

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

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

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

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

Australian cricketer

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

English cricketer

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

His throw went absolutely nowhere near where it was going.

Australian cricketer & commentator