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Top Twenty Great Cricket Quotes-The Players Quotes

Updated on June 10, 2012

The Cricket Quotes

Cricket is thought as a very English game, but it's popularity is spreading and the England v Australia Ashes series is a great sporting event. Like all sports, cricket has its characters. So here are some of my favourite wise, and entertaining Quotes fromthe world of cricket.

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Top Cricket Quotes

I don't like defensive strokes .You can only get three out of them! W.G. Grace.

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

He who strokes the ball with loving caress a gentlemen, he who studies it with hawk eyes is a worried mam. He who blocks fast bowlers and blocks spinners is a wise man. Peter Roebuck.

My diet is still pizzas, chips, toasted cheese sandwiches & milkshakes. I have the occasional six-week burst where I stick to fruit & cereal: it  kills me. Shane Warne

They are a bunch of gin-Soaked old dodderers. Ian Botham on the England selectors.

Gatting would have enjoyed that lunch. And that one ,and that one over there..........Graham Gooch on Mike's physique.

You cannot smoke twenty a day and bowl fast. Phil Tufnell on why he became a slow left-arm bowler.

The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.Barry Richards.

We will make them grovel. Tony Greig. Before the test series against the West Indies in 1976. England  lost 3-0.

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope.
Andrew Flintoff

It's like climbing Mount Everest and puling a hamstring in the last stride .Matin Crowe on being dismissed for 299.

I can't bat, can't bowl and can't field these days. I've every chance of being picked for England. Ray East

Ian Botham couldn't bowl a hoop downhill. Fred Trueman

Captains started to realise that spin bowling didn't have to be defensive but they could actually be attacking bowling in both one-day and Test cricket. I like to think I played a part in getting spin bowling back into fashion again. Shane Warne.

I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out.I like to see blood on the pitch. Jeff Thompson.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.Sachin Tendulkar.

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away before you decide which way to jump. Geoff Boycott on fast bowling.

suppose I can gain some consolation from the fact that my name will be permanently in the record books.Malcolm Nash after being hit for six sixes in an over by Gary Sobers.

I'd rather face Dennis Lillee with a stick of Rhubarb! Ian Botham after appearing in court on assault charges.

When I win the toss on a good pitch, I bat. When I win the toss on a doubtful pitch I think about It a bit more then I bat.When I win the toss on a very bad pitc, I think about It a bit longer then I bat. W.G.Grace.

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