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Cricket Quotes & Sayings

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To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world! — Charles Dickens

I can't really say I'm batting badly. I'm not batting long enough to be batting badly — Greg Chappell

I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup. — Jeremy London

Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game. — Anne, Queen Of Great Britain

Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too. — Virender Sehwag

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled. — Imran Khan

Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket. — Kapil Dev

Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton. — Malala Yousafzai

Just a wee cot-the crickets chirr-love and the smiling face of her. — James Whitcomb Riley

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe. — Donald Bradman

Rob Green needed to get the long barrier out, didn't he? — James Anderson

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

Test cricket is bloody hard work, especially when you've got Sachin batting with what looks like a three metre wide bat. — Michael Hussey

No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup. — Kapil Dev

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery. — Thomas Keneally

It is one thing to deceive a king, and quite another to hide from the cricket in the rushes and the little bird in the chimney. — George R R Martin

Pray God that no professional will ever captain England. — Martin Hawke

There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch. — Peter Roebuck

I want to convey a message to the Sri Lankan government that they should seriously consider sending Sri Lankan Cricket Team to Pakistan. — Sanath Jayasuriya

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know? — Rachel Griffiths

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways. — Andy Pick

As Far As One-Day Cricket Is Concerned, Dhoni Is One Of The Greatest Captains Of All Times — Sourav Ganguly

Cricket weaves easily around the other customers as if we're the only two people in the store. The music over the — Stephanie Perkins

I love cricket and I have no intention to retire — Shahid Afridi

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust. — Donald Bradman

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

Jadeja has been sent by N. Srinivasan to play cricket and then go back ... to Dhoni. — Ravi Shastri

Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death. — Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie

I'll only say this once more. I like you. I've always liked you. It would be wrong for me to come back into your life and act otherwise. — Stephanie Perkins

No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him. — Gideon Haigh

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard. — Harsha Bhogle

I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back — James M. Barrie

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down. — Ted Dexter

I'm not into caps with lots of diamonds on them, like KP. — James Anderson

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. — John E. Walker

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

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket. — Gautam Gambhir

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here. — Louisa May Alcott

2-0 is a cricket score in Italy — Alan Parry

The coolest man in world cricket MS Dhoni delivers when it most matters! — Michael Vaughan

All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid's eyes — Matthew Hayden

Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match. — Kapil Dev

Virat Kohli is the PRINCE of Indian cricket. — Ian Chappell

It's hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it's all I have ever done since I was 11 years old. — Sachin Tendulkar

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man. — Joseph O'Neill

Cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing. — Tommy Docherty

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain. — Alec Douglas-Home

My job is to perform, enjoy cricket and thank God for whatever he has given me. — Suresh Raina

Are you alone?" "No, I've got the local cricket team with me ready to have hot sex on your kitchen table. — Anonymous

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

I draw him closer by his tie and whisper into his ear, Cricket Bell, I have been in love with you for my entire life. — Stephanie Perkins

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself. — Sachin Tendulkar

You can choose where your feet take you, man. That's Dominic again, who's like my own little Jiminy Cricket, Portuguese fisherman style. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not. — Keith Miller

O cricket from your cherry cry
No one would ever guess
How quickly you must die. — Matsuo Basho

I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket — Sania Mirza

That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another — Fred Trueman

In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers. — Ian Peebles

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? — Thierry Henry

There are 2 types of captains in World Cricket. One is MS Dhoni and the other are the all others. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

But eventually it is a game of cricket. — Sachin Tendulkar

This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak. — Michael Clarke

Sure, cricket on a beach on the isle of Jura is different from a Test match in a stadium in Galle, 6000 miles away, despite the sea air. — Romesh Gunesekera

Cricket is baseball on Valium. — Robin Williams

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match. — Aneurin Bevan

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket. — Henry Chadwick

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous. — Budd Schulberg

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. — Robert Benchley

The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket. — Ian Botham

Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field. — Harsha Bhogle

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now. — Frank Woolley

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

Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson. — Martina Navratilova

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf — Harold Larwood

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket. — Andy Pick

I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt

added because it was the polite thing to do. "I'm going home," Cricket insisted as if Anna had threatened to drag her bodily back into the — Nevada Barr

With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up. — Shane Warne

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well. — Sachin Tendulkar

I have watched a lot of Tendulkar and we have spoken to each other a lot. He has it in him to be among the very best. — Garfield Sobers

To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator. — Harsha Bhogle

Lewis - "Why did you hit Brian over the head with the cricket bat?"
Bev - "Because I love him, there was no other way to get his attention. — Louis Nowra

The assumption now is that the interests of the brand and of the game overlap to the degree that cricket need hardly be mentioned. — Gideon Haigh

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket. — Frank Woolley

My memories of Australian cricket are it was an environment of good fun. — Tom Moody

In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others. — Ian Rush

Village cricket spread fast through the land. — G. M. Trevelyan

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman. — Prince Philip

Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins. — Jonathan Agnew

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art. — Douglas Jardine

Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer. — Tony Greig

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

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it. — Richie Benaud

Without a goal or an obstacle you're just running through a green cricket pitch for the rest of your life. — Chloe-Jasmine Whichello

The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it. — Ian Chappell

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality. — Neville Cardus

I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that. — Preity Zinta

When your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme. Jiminy Cricket
Never, never, never give up. Winston Spencer Churchill — Sheelagh McGrath

Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that. — Kapil Dev

My level of excitement is above cricket proportions — C.S. Woolley