Cricket Quotes

"Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented to give themselves some conception of eternity." - Lord Mancroft.

"We've got football, baseball, basketball. You got cricket - baseball on valium." - Robin Williams.

"The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey." - BBC commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins during Test West Indies v England 1980-81.

"The only change England would propose might be to replace Derek Pringle, who remains troubled by no balls." - The Times.

"Welcome to Leicester, where the captain Ray Illingworth has just relieved himself at the Pavillion End." - Brian Johnston, BBC Radio.

Quotes taken from the book Howzat! printed by Chameleon.