Cricket Funny Quotes

• To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

  Shane Warne

  Simple, Games, Play

  "Old master is still spinning" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Journey, Balls

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

  James M. Barrie

  Running, Balls, Cricket

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• Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.

  John Arlott

  Lonely, Team, Games

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• It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.

  Denis Norden

  Baseball, Wife, Fans

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

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Sports, Rain, Heaven

  Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  Harold Pinter

  Sex, Thinking, Cricket Match

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• That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another

  Fred Trueman

  Two, Cricket, Wit

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• I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly

  Greg Chappell

  Long, Enough, Cricket

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• The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding

  Ian Chappell

  England, Bowling, Advantage

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• A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

  Neville Cardus

  Telling The Truth, Should, Strokes

  Neville Cardus (1930). “Cricket”

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• The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Umpires, Reason, Nappies

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• Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand

  Ian Healy

  Hands, Ideas, Cricket

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• The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Winning, Toss

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

  Imran Khan

  Cricket Match, Games, Entrepreneur

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Baseball, Dignity, Advantage

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I've never got to the bottom of streaking

  Jonathan Agnew

  Cricket, Bottom

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• The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

  John Arlott

  Bye, Air, Umpires

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• In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.

  Ian Peebles

  Games, Cricket, Bowlers

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• Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

  Robert Mugabe

  Sports, Cricket Match, Play

  In Sunday Times 26 Feb. 1984

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• Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Running

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• Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

  John Arlott

  Afl, Done, Bills

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• The first time you face up to a googly you're going to be in trouble if you've never faced one before

  Trevor Bailey

  Faces, Firsts, Trouble

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• Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.

  David Acfield

  Funny, Soccer, Air

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• A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.

  Ranjitsinhji

  Running, Bowling, Certain

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