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CRICKET QUOTES

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It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!'
—Powys,John Cowper

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Personally, I have always looked upon cricket as organized loafing.
—Temple,William

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Cricket can be a bridge and a glue? Cricket for peace is my mission.
—Zia Ul-Haq, Mohammed

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Most games are skin-deep, but cricket goes to the bone.
—Aristotle

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Cricket is a game of the most terrifying stresses with more luck about it than any other game I know. They call it a team game, but in fact it is the loneliest game of all.
—Aristotle

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Cricket is a game full of forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill- defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.
—Orwell, George pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair

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Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.
—Botham, IanTerence

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There is a widely held and quite erroneously held belief that cricket is just another game.
—Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

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

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Cricket is the greatest game that the wit of man has yet devised.
—Warner, Sir Pelham Plum

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Cricket? It civilises people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe. I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
—Mugabe, Robert Gabriel

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J'adore ce cricket; c'est tellement Anglais. I do so love cricket; it's so very English.
—Bernard

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Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth. Save the cricket on the hearth.
—Milton,John

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Cricket remains for me the game of games, the sanspareil, the great metaphor, the best marriage ever devisedof mind and body? For me it remains theProust of pastimes, the subtlest and most poetic, the most past- and-present; whose beauty can lie equally in days, in a whole, or in one tiny phrase, a blinding split second.
—Fowles,John Robert

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'Cricket,' said Raffles, 'like everything else, is a good enough sport until you discover a better. As a source of excitement it isn't in it with other things you wot of Bunny, and the involuntary comparison becomes a bore. What's the satisfaction of taking a man's wicket when you want his spoons?'
—Hornung, E(rnest) W(illiam)

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Yet, when confinement's lingering hour was done, Our sport, our studies, and our souls were one: Together we impell'd the flying ball; Together waited in our tutor's hall; Together join'd in cricket's manly toil.
—Rochdale

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Sometimes I dream of revolution, a bloody coup d'etat by the second rank of troupes of actors slaughtered by their understudies, magicians sawn in half by indefatigably smiling glamour girls, cricket teams wiped out by marauding bands of twelfth men.
—Stoppard, Sir Tom originally Tom Straussler

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

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Cricket to us was more than play, It was a worship in the summer sun.
—Blunden, Edmund Charles

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Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.
—Cardus, Sir Neville

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Heavenly weather. If life was always like that.Cricket weather. Sit around under sunshades. Over after over. Out. They can't play it here. Still, Captain Buller broke a window in Kildare Street Club with a slog to square leg.
—Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius

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I hear John Arlott's voice every weekend, describing cricket matches. He sounds like Uncle Tom Cobleigh reading Neville Cardus to the Indians.
—Thomas, Dylan Marlais

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The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
—Cardus, Sir Neville

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Drinking the best tea in the world in an empty cricket ground; that, I think, is the final pleasure left to man.
—Snow, C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron

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On paper, England are a good cricket team. The trouble is they play on grass.
—Smith, Arthur

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In affectionate remembrance of English cricket, which died at the Oval on 29th August,1882. Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances. RIP. NB The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.
—Anonymous

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Many continentals think life is a game, the English think cricket is a game.
—Mikes, George

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Body-line was not an incident, it was not an accident, it was not a temporary aberration. It was the violence and ferocity of our age expressing itself in cricket.
—James, C(yril) L(ionel) R(obert)

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It is far more than a game, this cricket.
—Cardus, Sir Neville

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Golf is to Fiji what cricket is to America.
—Singh,Vijay

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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. It combines the best features of that primitive form of cricket known as Tip-and-Run with those of lawn tennis, Puss-in-the-corner and Handel's Messiah.
—Shaw, George Bernard

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If Stalin had learned to play cricket, the world might now be a better place.
—Downey, Dr Richard

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

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I never was a boy, never played at cricket; it is better to let Nature take her course.
—Mill,John Stuart

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I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.
—Kinnock, Neil Gordon

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To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
—Mitford, Mary Russell

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It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you realise that your wife left you in May.
—Norden, Denis

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For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.
—Uttley, Alison

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