#cricket

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#cricket #enjoyed #how #i #kent

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#believe #cricket #day #great #i

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test. ↗

— Ian Botham

#best #cricket #england #eventually #exciting

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down. ↗

— Ted Dexter

#cricket #down #else #endless #grinds

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#before #breath #broke #cricket #had

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game. ↗

— George Mikes

#english #game #life #life is a #many

One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#cricket #dad #day #drove #especially

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#advantage #baseball #being #cricket #ended

Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun. ↗

— Edmund Blunden

#more #play #summer #sun #than

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