Keyword: Cricket (Page 3)

Send ‘im’ down a piano, see if ‘e can play that!

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

His feet were a long way away from his body!

Indian cricketer

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

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

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

Australian cricketer & commentator

Well, there’s only one thing I can say after that over, and that’s to clap my hands.

British sports commentator

He’s on 90… 10 away from that mythical figure.

British sports commentator

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

cricket announcer

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

English cricketer

He is a very dangerous bowler… innocuous, if you like.

cricket coach

If England lose now, they will be leaving the field with their heads between their legs!

English cricketer

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

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

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

Australian cricketer

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

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

cricket commentator

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

British sports commentator