NEW YEAR CHEER

2 January 2009

Part 2 of a collection of humorous cricket quotations…

NEW YEAR CHEER

A very small crowd here today. I can count the people on one hand. Can’t be more than 30.

MICHAEL ABRAHAMSON

Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.

DAVID ACFIELD

Like an elephant trying to do the pole vault.

JONATHAN AGNEW AS HEAVYWEIGHT PAKISTAN CAPTAIN INZAMAM-UL-HAQ FALLS OVER HIS OWN STUMPS AT HEADINGLY IN 2006

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator.

JOHN ARLOTT

If the Poms bat first, keep the taxi running.

AUSTRALIAN FANS BANNER DURING THE 1994-95 ASHES SERIES

Leaving out Lillee against Englandwould be as unthinkable as the Huns dropping Attila.

AUSTRALIAN TV COMMENTATOR, 1982

Well, Andrew Strauss is certainly an optimist – he’s come out wearing sunblock!

AUSTRALIAN COMMENTATOR DURING THE FIFTH TEST IN ENGLAND’S 5-0 WHITEWASH, 2006-7

On the first day Logie decided to chance his arm and it came off.

TREVOR BAILEY

Pakistanis the sort of place everyone should send his mother-in-law for a month… all expenses paid.

IAN BOTHAM

It couldn’t have been Gatt. Anything he takes up to his room after nine o’clock, he eats.

IAN BOTHAM ON THE MIKE GATTING BARMAID SCANDAL

This can only help England’s cause.

IAN BOTHAM ON HEARING THAT GEOFFREY BOYCOTT IS TO COACH THEPAKISTANBATSMEN BEFORE THEIR 2001 TOUR OF ENGLAND

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