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I'm crap at talking to girls. I really need them to come and chat to me, but I'm learning a lot from the England guys. [on the benefits of playing cricket]
View quotes by James Anderson

The people of London have turned out for us and it shows how much cricket and the Ashes mean to them - it's fantastic [on the victory parade 2005]
View quotes by Andrew Flintoff

This has been a difficult decision but I want to play at the highest level for as long as I can [on retiring from one day cricket for England - a devastating loss, not]
View quotes by Steve Harmison

The game of cricket is no joke
To us who neither drink or smoke
Games are won and runs are made
By girls who stick to lemonade.
View quotes by Nat Gubbins

He still took an interest in the game [cricket] when he was at Belvedere, and eagerly studied the feats of Ranji and Fry, Trumper and Spofforth [on James]
View quotes by Stanislaus Joyce

Bigger the cricket here: yet some who tried
In vain to earn a colour while at Eton
Have found a place upon an England side
Which can't be beaten.
View quotes by E W Hornung

It's fair to say there's probably a group of us considering where we're at and what further part cricket's got to play in our lives but not to the point where it's a real sit-down decision-making time
View quotes by Adam Gilchrist

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match
View quotes by Aneurin Bevan

I thought the boys played brilliant cricket today [on hitting 91 not out off 65 balls to sink the Aussies, 2005 one day series]
View quotes by Kevin Pietersen

Sometimes, people think it's like polo, played on horseback, and I remember one guy thought it was a game involving insects. [on explaining cricket to Americans!]
View quotes by Clayton Lambert

At the camp the whole squad reaffirmed their commitment to the Spirit of Cricket and I'm disappointed that I fell short of the standards I expect of myself and my team-mates
View quotes by Ricky Ponting

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.
View quotes by George Orwell

Sunday league cricket: multi-coloured pyjamas, two tone umpires, and white balls with black seams. There is nothing like traditional English sport.
View quotes by David Hunn

Those who run cricket in this country, especially at the domestic level, are for the most part a self-serving, pusillanimous and self-important bunch of myopic dinosaurs unable to take any but the shortest-term view of everything.
View quotes by Henry Blofeld

It might be a move in six months. But I'll make up my mind. I'll have a look at where I've been and where I want to go and I'll continue in that way. [replying to calls for him to resign as Coach of English cricket. It's not his fault the players were rubbish against Aussie in 2006!]
View quotes by Duncan Fletcher

We (the ICC) take a zero tolerance approach to doping in cricket. We are a signatory to the World Anti Doping Agency code
View quotes by Malcolm Speed

My successes in the Army are owing in great measure to the manly sports of Great Britain, and one sport above all - cricket.
View quotes by Arthur Wellesley Wellington

I am surprised but in the end it's his decision and it gives an opportunity for others to play for Pakistan. [on Afridi pulling out Pakistan test cricket squad]
View quotes by Bob Woolmer

Regardless of the outcome of the games, it is my view this is a magnificent spectacle for anyone who has any interest in the game of cricket. [on money spinning world XI games]
View quotes by Justin Langer

Gary Sobers was unsurpassed as an all-rounder, he always played cricket the way the Gods intended - absolutely straight, absolutely hard, but never with malice.
View quotes by Trevor Bailey

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