After just one day of The Ashes 2013 we’ve already got cricketing fever. Alongside some of our more informative sporting titles published by The Robson Press Biteback have recently published an entertaining run-down of the funniest quotations in sport, by Fred Metcalf. We’ve selected some of the best cricketing quotations to keep you amused.
“Cricket: casting the ball at three straight sticks and defending the same with a fourth.”
Rudyard Kipling, writer and poet
“I can’t really say I’m batting badly. I’m not batting long enough to be batting badly.”
Greg Chappell, Australian Test Captain
“Personally, I have always looked upon cricket as organised loafing.”
William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1925
“He’s bowled like a camel and fielded like a drain.”
Bob Willis of Kabir Ali, English Pace Bowler
“You can have sex either before cricket or after cricket – the fundamental fact is that cricket must be there at the centre of things.”
Harold Pinter, Pinter on Pinter, 1980
“The aim of English cricket is, in fact, mainly to beat Australia.”
Jim Laker, English Cricketer
“He’s decided to give up first-class cricket. But he’ll still be playing for Australia.”
Anon
“I bowl so slow that if after I have delivered the ball and don’t like the look of it, I can run after it and bring it back.”
J.M. Barrie, author and dramatist
“Now Botham, with a chance to put everything that’s gone before behind him.”
Tony Cozier, commentator
“If the tension here was a block of Cheddarcheese, you could cut it with a knife.”
Henry Blofeld, English cricket writer and broadcaster
If you haven’t quite had your fill of laughs, you can check out the whole cricketing chapter in The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Sporting Quotations by Fred Metcalf. It’s available from us cheaper than any other retailer, and includes chapters on Athletics, Boxing, Croquet, Fishing, Football, Ice Hockey, Marathons, Rowing, Surfing, Winter Sports and Wrestling… What’s not to love?!