Cricket Quotes from the game

Cricket Quotes Series – Part 2… funny quips

More Cricket quotes. The part 2 of the series of interesting quotes from Cricket.

Cricket Quotes : Part Two,  More from the game

After the first part in this series of quotes from Cricket,  here is the second installment as we continue with a few more gems.
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Arthur Mailey, the Australian spinner on seeing Douglas Jardine’s infamous Bodyline theory unfolding

“Just with a nod of the head Jardine signalled his men, and they came across to the leg side like a swarm of hungry sharks.”

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Bill O’Reilly on the mood in the Australian dressing room during Bodyline
“We bade sentimental farewells to each other as each batsman made his way out to bat. We had a genuine feeling they were making a journey from which they might be borne back on a stretcher.”
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Martin Johnson the famous cricket correspondent on the England captain Michael Atherton
“Michael Atherton is one of the few people capable of looking more dishevelled at the start of a six-hour century than at the end of it” 
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Fred Trueman on Peter Sainsbury , the Hampshire spinner.

I’m all right when his arm comes over, but I’m out of form by the time the bloody ball gets here”

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Arthur Wood the Yorkshire wicket keeper with a wicked sense of humour to Hedley Verity ( his teammate and one of the best spinners between the Wars.) after he was taken apart by by Jock Cameron of South Africa in a tour match.

“Go on Hedley, you’ve got him in two minds, he doesn’t know whether to hit you for four or six” 

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Dennis Lillee , stopping in his run up, to Mike Gatting.

“Hell, Gatt, move out the way, I can’t see the wickets” 

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Ian Botham on being asked about his family life and duties,

“I don’t ask Kathy to face Michael Holding. So I don’t see why I should be changing nappies.”

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