“Cricket is an ancient pastime; it ripened sweetly, it has endured noblt.”

Bat and Ball (1935), opening words.

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British writer 1893–1974

Lionel Tennyson

Sticky Wickets (1950), ASIN: B0000CHN1L

“If one-day cricket was pyjama cricket, then Twenty20 is underwear cricket.”

Navjot Singh Sidhu (1963) Indian cricketer and politician

On Twenty20 cricket, in "If one-dayer is pyjama cricket, Twenty20 is underwear cricket" in Daily News and Analysis (17 July 2006) http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report-if-one-dayer-is-pyjama-cricket-twenty20-is-underwear-cricket-1042298.

“In summertime village cricket is a delight to everyone. Nearly every village has its own cricket field where the young men play and the old men watch. In the village of Lintz in the County of Durham they have their own ground, where they have played these last 70 years. They tend it well. The wicket area is well rolled and mown. The outfield is kept short. It has a good clubhouse for the players and seats for the onlookers. The village team plays there on Saturdays and Sundays. They belong to a league, competing with the neighbouring villages. On other evenings they practice while the light lasts. Yet now after these 70 years a judge of the High Court has ordered that they must not play anymore. He has issued an injunction to stop them. He has done it at the instance of a newcomer who is no lover of cricket. This newcomer has built, or has had built for him, a house on the edge of the cricket ground which four years ago was a field where cattle grazed. The animals did not mind the cricket, but now this adjoining field has been turned into a housing estate. The newcomer bought one of the houses on the edge of the cricket field. No doubt the open space was a selling point. Now he complains that when a batsman hits a six the ball has been known to land in his garden or on or near his house. His wife has got so upset about it that they always go out at weekends. They do not go into the garden when cricket is being played. They say that this is intolerable. So they asked the judge to stop the cricket being played. And the judge, much against his will, has felt that he must order the cricket to be stopped: with the consequence, I suppose, that the Lintz Cricket Club will disappear. The cricket ground will be turned to some other use. I expect for houses or a factory. The young men will turn to other things instead of cricket. The whole village will be much poorer. And all this because of a newcomer who has just bought a house there next to the cricket ground.”

Alfred Denning, Baron Denning (1899–1999) British judge

Miller v. Jackson [1977] QB 966 at 976.
Judgments

“Cricket can be a bridge and a glue… Cricket for peace is my mission.”

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924–1988) 6th President of Pakistan

Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992)
Source: Dictionary of Quotations, Chambers: Edinburgh, U.K, 2005, p. 937

“One-day cricket has debased the currency, both of great finishes and of adjectives to describe them.”

Matthew Engel (1951) English writer and editor

The Guardian Book of Cricket (1986)

“Smut is a target for reconstructed cricketing accidents -- he is the Cricket Saint Sebastian.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

Fear of Drowning By Numbers

“Cricket at the highest level has never been simply a demonstration of sporting excellence; it has always been about winning and losing.”

James Coldham (1924–1987)

F.S. Jackson, A Cricketing Biography (1989)

“They've started this filthy floodlit cricket with cricketers wearing tin hats and advertisements for contraceptives on their boots.”

Alan Ayckbourn Intimate Exchanges

A Gardener in Love, Intimate Exchanges (1982).

“There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.”

Rahul Dravid (1973) Indian cricketer

“Long ago I discovered that there was more to life than cricket, and more to cricket than runs and wickets.”

David Foot (1929) Canadian economist

Cricket's Unholy Trinity (1985)

“Cricket is an ancient pastime; it ripened sweetly, it has endured noblt.”

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