Top 63 Quotes About Cricket Game

#1. It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.

Melina Marchetta

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#2. 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

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#3. Indians are great lovers of cricket, they have always been that as far as I can remember - great followers of the game and have knowledge about the game.

Garfield Sobers

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#4. Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

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#5. The assumption now is that the interests of the brand and of the game overlap to the degree that cricket need hardly be mentioned.

Gideon Haigh

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#6. Cricket is full of theorists who can ruin your game in no time.

Ian Botham

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#7. In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Virat Kohli

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#8. Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

Henry Chadwick

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#9. No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.

Gideon Haigh

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#10. In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.

Ian Peebles

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#11. Trying to understand God's will for anything without reading the Bible is like jumping into the middle of a cricket match without knowing any of the rules and never having watched a game.

Vance C. Kessler

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#12. British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

Andre Maurois

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#13. Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

Neville Cardus

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#14. In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless ... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

Neville Cardus

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#15. I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.

Glenn Turner

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#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

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#17. The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

Stephen Leacock

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#18. But eventually it is a game of cricket.

Sachin Tendulkar

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#19. After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

Bill Bryson

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#20. Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

G.H. Hardy

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#21. The rise and fall of Srinivasan, 70, will perhaps be remembered as cricket's most compelling narrative over a decade when the game transformed from a serious sport that generated bountiful revenues to a Twenty20 circus that made more money than anyone could ever imagine.

Anonymous

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#22. Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

George Mikes

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#23. Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them.

Richard Lloyd Parry

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#24. 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

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#25. Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.

Craig Brown

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#26. I put my heart, soul and tears into the game and this is what I get. I don't know what to do. My wife can't sleep at night. I hold my daughter all night. I am ashamed I played cricket.

Kapil Dev

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#27. The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

Douglas Adams

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#28. I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.

Kapil Dev

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#29. He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.

Greg Chappell

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#30. The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my career I was privileged to give the public my interpretation of its character in the same way that a pianist might interpret the works of Beethoven.

Donald Bradman

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#31. My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

Sachin Tendulkar

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#32. To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

Shane Warne

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#33. Golf is a game to be played between cricket and death.

Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie

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#34. Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

Neville Cardus

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#35. As a test cricket lover, and as a cricket lover, I like all forms of the game.

Cyrus Broacha

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#36. Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

Paul Hogan

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#37. 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

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#38. There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

Rahul Dravid

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#39. One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

Matthew Hayden

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#40. They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.

George Mikes

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#41. It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh. We came here without some key players but I must say our young players showed a lot of characters in the series which will help Sri Lanka cricket in the future.

Mahela Jayawardene

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#42. Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development

Donald Bradman

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#43. Wretched game, cricket, keeping romantic youths out in the sun when they should be indoors, applying balm to the foreheads of feverish young maidens.

Ruskin Bond

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#44. For the Indians, cricket is not a game, it's a religion.

Jeffrey Archer

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#45. Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

Steve Waugh

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#46. Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game.

Anne, Queen Of Great Britain

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#47. Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.

Gagan Narang

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#48. Bond went back to room 325 and poured himself two fingers of bourbon from his bottle and switched on the television while he waited for Delmont. He watched a game of baseball uncomprehendingly - the Senators versus the Royals - thinking that it made cricket seem exciting.

William Boyd

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#49. I wrote 'The Match,' my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction.

Romesh Gunesekera

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#50. 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.

John Arlott

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#51. He looked at me with a smile that I still remember and ran a finger along his impeccably trimmed mustache. Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It's a gentleman's game. Don't you ever forget that.

Ken Doyle

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#52. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

Thierry Henry

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#53. Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

Sachin Tendulkar

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#54. Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

George Orwell

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#55. Cricket has become more popular, not me ... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'

Kapil Dev

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#56. He played the long game as if he was playing the short game, looking to entertain the crowd and paying absolutely no heed to the calibre of the attack, the state of the pitch or even the situation of the match.

David Mutton

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#57. Cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing.

Tommy Docherty

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#58. Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

Harold Larwood

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#59. I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

Bill Bryson

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#60. But cricket was no mere game. Cricket was important. [S]he could never help reading about cricket. [S]he read the scores in the stop press first, then how it was a hot day; then about a murder case.

Virginia Woolf

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#61. Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

Imran Khan

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#62. It is far more than a game, this cricket.

Neville Cardus

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#63. In sport, there is always room for improvement. Whenever I see my innings against the West Indies or Australia, I think, 'Maybe, I could have done this better or should have changed that.' See, cricket is a skill game, and one can always improve upon the impact one has on an innings.

Yuvraj Singh

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