Talk:Cricket

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

• For six days, thou shall push up and down the line, but on the seventh day thou shall swipe.
  • Doug Padgett, 1969

• When you win the toss – bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague – then bat.
  • Attributed to W. G. Grace.

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

• Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.
  • Douglas Jardine, captain of England, 1931-34. Jardine was quoting a phrase that had previously been used by a New Zealander; as he said during that filmed sequence of the speech

Cricket is just baseball on valium. Robin Williams

• Cricket is just baseball on valium.
  • Robin Williams

• "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?"
  • Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1996) Amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting.