#cricket

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

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#amateur #british #brought #certainly #cricket

Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins. ↗

— Gideon Haigh

#india #indian-premier-league #nationalism #india

I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#cricket #field #first #i #introduced

I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people. ↗

— Hansie Cronje

#great #great people #i #i love #interesting

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch. ↗

— Peter Tork

#baseball #bat #coming #cricket #difficult

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

— John E. Walker

#captain #cricket #i #keen #school

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#cricket #days #great #plenty #spare