England Cricket Quotes

#1. I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

Jeffrey Archer

#2. I love England and I love cricket.

Kevin Pietersen

#3. The last positive thing England did for cricket was to invent it.

Ian Chappell

#4. We are such sticklers for tradition in insisting on an amateur captain, regardless of the question of whether he can pull his weight as a player. The time is coming when we will have to change our views [...] when there will be no amateurs of sufficient ability to put into an England side.

John Berry Hobbs

#5. There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.

Michael Clarke

#6. I left home and tried to live the life of a hermit, but I was still fighting myself. I went to England and worked as a chainman on the road. It was better therapy than the shrinks. Building a two-mile road gave me internal peace.

Brian Strang

#7. Pray God that no professional will ever captain England.

Martin Hawke

#8. England are playing fantastic cricket at the moment, they have a great team and I know all the Aussies are looking forward to getting over there. We'll be doing everything in our power to get over there and win every game if possible.

Michael Clarke

#9. Her favourite summer memories were not of events themselves, of picnics, sea bathing, tennis afternoons and cricket matches, but of watching Hugh and Daniel enjoying them and locking into memory the delight in their faces and their open laughter.

Helen Simonson

#10. Rob Green needed to get the long barrier out, didn't he?

James Anderson

#11. During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were talented players, tactically they were a bit naive when compared to those who played full-time on the English circuit. You might find this arrogant, but that was the reality then.

Glenn Turner

#12. Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

Donald Bradman

#13. Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal.

R.C. Robertson-Glasgow

#14. Yardy doing a good job out there - 1-14 off his five overs so far - but Bangla are letting this drift. The bowling is there to attack, but they're as passive as sleeping sloths at the mo.

Tom Fordyce

#15. The only good thing about that decision, Gatt, is that I'll get tea before you.

Graham Gooch

#16. I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well,

Kapil Dev

#17. Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.

Andy Pick

#18. You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

Ian Botham

#19. My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

Desmond Llewelyn

#20. He has played some outstanding innings in the past, and I've got no [sic] confidence whatsoever that he'll come back and play very well in the near future.

Andrew Strauss

#21. We're not going to get carried away. Well, we are going to for the next couple of days!

Paul Collingwood

#22. The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.

Lawrence Booth

#23. English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Agnes Repplier

#24. England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

Robert Benchley

#25. The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding

Ian Chappell

#26. Pakistan would be confident after their series win over England. The series will be a very close and good contest and if all the players play to their potential we're in for some wonderful cricket.

Greg Chappell

#27. I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

Ian Botham