Cricket Quotes

Cricket! Often called the second religion of the Sub-continent, people who know and follow cricket are well aware of the fact that cricket is a craze, it is interesting, you can forget everything else while watching a close cricket match. Here are some quotable quotes on cricket. And even if you are unaware of cricket rules, conventions and history, I am sure you will still enjoy what is said in these quotes.

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A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
Richie Benaud

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
Murray Walker

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game.
Queen Anne

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
Robin Williams

It has been said of the unseen army of the dead, on their everlasting march, that when they are passing a rural cricket ground, the Englishmen fall out of the ranks for a moment to lean over a gate and smile.

Sir James Matthew Barrie

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
George Mikes

Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan

A cricketer’s life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.
W.G. Grace