#cricket

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches. ↗

— Paul Hogan

#always #beginning #bit #cricket #drink

Kaneria has competed in more than 50 Test series [sic] for Pakistan during his career. ↗

— BBC

#cricket #danish-kaneria #misspeaking #pakistan-national-cricket-team #age

My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it. ↗

— David Peace

#cricket #soccer #art

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for. ↗

— Ian Botham

#cricket #expect #find #ground #half

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#burnt #capable #cricket #french #had

Village cricket spread fast through the land. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#fast #land #spread #through #village

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. ↗

— John E. Walker

#captain #cricket #i #keen #school

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? ↗