John Arlott Quotes

#1. We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

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#2. Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.

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#4. Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.

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#5. It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

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#6. The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

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#7. Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

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#8. Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

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#9. A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

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#10. The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

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#11. Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

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

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