#cricket

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump. ↗

— Murray Walker

#cut #stump #tension #you

When Lalit Modi came to the podium after the final of the third Indian Premier League, with minutes ticking away on his reign, he had what few administrators at presentation ceremonies can claim to have enjoyed: a captive audience. What would it be? You won't have Modi to kick around any more, a la Richard Nixon? Old BCCI vice-presidents never die, they just fade away, a la Douglas MacArthur? Not quite, although Modi, for him, flirted with rhetoric: 'Indian People's League… I have lived a dream… Humble servant of the game.' Then there was the quote from the Bhagavad Gita, which some oblivious viewers may have mistaken for another sponsor (coming soon: the Mahabharata Moment of Success). Finally there came a defiant roar: 'We should not allow this brand to be diluted and we will not. ↗

— Gideon Haigh

#commercialism #cricket #douglas-macarthur #indian-premier-league #lalit-modi

We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community. ↗

— Hansie Cronje

#book #community #cricket #hard #make

When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today. ↗

— Sunil Gavaskar

#cricket #down #during #focus #how

Both sides have been playing tremendous cricket over a couple of years and they're both very good units. ↗

— Matthew Hayden

#both #both sides #couple #cricket #good

The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket. ↗

— Shane Warne

#coaches #cricket #i #intense #international

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing. ↗

— Murray Walker

#might #motor #racing #think #you

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching. ↗

— Steve Waugh

#any #because #coaching #cricket #formal

At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and England; past and present inter-penetrate. The best days an angler spends upon his river – the river which is Heraclitus’ river, which is never the same as the angler is never the same, yet is the same always – are those he recollects in tranquillity, as wintry weather lashes the land without, and he, snug and warm, ties new patterns of dry-fly, and remembers the leaf-dapple upon clear water and the play of light and the eternal dance of ranunculus in the chalk-stream. A cricket match between two riotously inexpert village Second XIs is no less an instance of timeless, of time caught in ritual within an emerald Arcadia, than is a Test at Lord’s, and we who love the greatest of games know that we do indeed catch a fleeting glimpse of a spectral twelfth man on every pitch, for in each re-enactment of the mystery there is the cumulation of all that has gone before and shall come after. Et ego in Arcadia. ↗

— G.M.W. Wemyss

#arcadia #country-life #countryside #cricket #flyfishing

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#buildings #cricket #earth #flat #ground