“The slow-motion replay doesn’t show how fast the ball was really travelling.”
– Richie Benaud

“I can’t really say I’m batting badly. I’m not batting long enough to be batting badly”
– Greg Chappell

“A very small crowd here today. I can count the people on one hand. Can’t be more than 30”
– Michael Abrahamson

“Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished”
– John Arlott

“Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain”
– Alec Douglas-Home

“That’s what cricket’s all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another”
– Fred Trueman

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

“The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk”
– John Arlott