Saturday, 1 September 2018

6 September: Cricket Quotes

On this date in 1880, the first cricket test match in England was played between England and Australia at the Oval, London. W G Grace scores 152 in debut innings. 10 Cricket quotes:


Cricket
  1. Cricket to us was more than play, It was a worship in the summer sun. Edmund Blunden
  2. To stay in, you’ve got to not get out. Geoff Boycott
  3. 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
  4. Cricket is basically baseball on valium. Robin Williams
  5. I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why. Bill Bryson
  6. A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it. Richie Benaud
  7. Wretched game, cricket, keeping romantic youths out in the sun when they should be indoors, applying balm to the foreheads of feverish young maidens. Ruskin Bond
  8. Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't. Shane Warne
  9. The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball. Douglas Adams
  10. A good cricketer never loses his nerve. He just bats on! Anthony T. Hincks


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