
“Silence
And a deeper silence
When the crickets
Hesitate”
A collection of quotes on the topic of cricket, cricketer, game, gaming.
“Silence
And a deeper silence
When the crickets
Hesitate”
“Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.”
Source: Tale of Genji, The Tale of Genji, trans. Arthur Waley, Ch. 1
The Pleasures of Cricket (1989), Introduction
Peter Hain, Foreign Office Minister in Tony Blair's British government, The Observer, 1999
About
By Sachin Tendulkar.
Kumble Calls it a Day: Quotes... For and By Kumble...
From a public letter titled "Winter Practice", published in Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle, 10 July 1858.
Pop Chronicles: Show 27 - The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!: The U.S.A. is invaded by a wave of long-haired English rockers. Part 1 https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19782/m1/#track/4, 24 August 1964 http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pro202.html.
Quoted on The Guardian, "Joe Root leads the way as England record stunning World Twenty20 win" http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/mar/18/england-south-africa-world-twenty20-match-report, March 18, 2016.
“If I knew I was going to die today, I think I should still want to hear the cricket scores.”
Source: Quoted in The Joy of Cricket (ed. John Bright-Holmes, 1984)
Source: Hearing Voices - Volume 5: Collected Stories and Drawings
Source: Saving Francesca
“She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets! It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!”
Source: On the Banks of Plum Creek
After guiding India to the World T20 semifinals, quoted on sports.ndtv, "Virat Kohli Proves His Era Has Begun, After Guiding India Into World T20 Semifinals" http://sports.ndtv.com/icc-world-twenty20-2016/news/256920-virat-kohli-proves-his-era-has-begun-after-guiding-india-into-world-t20-semifinals, March 27, 2016.
Quoted in Kumble Calls It A day: Quotes... For and By Kumble..., 20 December 2013, Zee News India http://zeenews.india.com/kumble/story.aspx?aid=480775,
Said in relation to the proposal to ban firearms in the UK following the Dunblane shooting, as quoted in "48 of Prince Philip's greatest gaffes and funny moments" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/04/48-prince-philips-greatest-gaffes-funny-moments/, The Telegraph (2 August 2017)
1990s
A Brief History of Timewasting, Room 101, The News Quiz
In press conference announcing retirement from Test cricket, quoted in " After 16 yrs, Rahul Wall Dravid retires from intl cricket "in Indian Express (Indianexpress.com) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/after-16-yrs-rahul-wall-dravid-retires-from-intl-cricket/921750/0
Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief (2004)
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
“Cricket as a passion is distinctly contagious.”
England v Australia (1981)
Hansard, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 180 col. 464.
Personal statement in the House of Commons on his resignation, 13 November 1990.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
“Things never turn out in cricket as one expects.”
The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's (1887).
Willow the King (1899)
England v Sri Lanka, 2007-04-04, BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/6521515.stm,
Estranha gente, para quem é fora de dúvida que ninguém pode ser moral sem ler a Bíblia, ser forte sem jogar o críquete e ser gentleman sem ser inglês! E é isto que os torna detestados. Nunca se fundem, nunca se desinglesam.
"Os Ingleses no Egipto"; "The English in Egypt" pp. 159-60.
Cartas de Inglaterra (1879–82)
“Cricket to us, like you, was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun.”
Poem Pride of the Village (1925)
In dhoni's own words: it's always been about serving the country. https://www.scoopwhoop.com/sports/ms-dhoni/
F.S. Jackson, A Cricketing Biography (1989)
On Indian tennis player Sania Mirza's marriage to Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, as quoted in " Sania should not be allowed to play for India: Muthalik http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/sania-should-not-be-allowed-to-play-for-india-muthalik/article1-526359.aspx", Hindustan Times (2 April 2010)
2014, "Read full interview of Narendra Modi to Rajat Sharma", 2014
“Humbleness and effeminacy are not things that a great cricketer can afford to have.”
Cricket: Can it be Taught? (1926), ASIN: B000XTEYX2
When asked about his favourite memory of India, quoted on The Courier Mail, "The day 50 people laughed at Matthew Hayden" http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/hayden-joins-indian-team/news-story/a88c1a51e63ddd3d9731820f4dc74cf1, March 20, 2016.
By Krishnamachari Srikanth.
Kumble Calls it a Day: Quotes... For and By Kumble...
To the Wicket (1946)
Part I, Chapter 5, Mechanistic Modelling, p. 108
The Death of Economics (1994)
Linda Live, 1993
Stand-up
Quoted on The Daily Telegraph (July 30, 2015), "Matthew Hayden fears Australian team culture could be affected by dropping of Brad Haddin" http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/cricket/matthew-hayden-fears-australian-team-culture-could-be-affected-by-dropping-of-brad-haddin/news-story/08a3e9ac471abf5418d8dd3a34deff82
“What I really hate about cricket is, it's such a damned good game.”
Another Country (1982)
India became a sporting nation in the last decade: Kumble
“Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.”
Source: Translations, The Tale of Genji (1925–1933), Ch. 1: 'Kiritsubo'
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
By Arjuna Ranatunga in "Kumble Calls it a Day: Quotes... For and By Kumble..."
The Guardian, 10 June 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,1793019,00.html
Guardian columns, Big Brother
India became a sporting nation in the last decade: Kumble
By Kapil Dev.
Kumble Calls it a Day: Quotes... For and By Kumble...
Cricket's Unholy Trinity (1985)
The Demon Bowler (1979)
Quoted in S. Dinakar, " I have learnt a lot about life from cricket http://www.hinduonnet.com/tss/tss2438/24380360.htm," Sport Star, vol. 24, no. 38 (2001-09-22).
Quote
A Chinaman in My Bath
Good Days (1934)
Jayawardene on English cricketer Joe Root, quoted on ESPNCRICINFO, "Jayawardene praise for 'special' England batting performance" http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-world-twenty20-2016/content/story/985807.html, March 19, 2016.
Quote
Quoted on Sports.ndtv.com (December 5, 2015), "Matthew Hayden Lashes Out at Ravi Shastri, Says He has Right to Speak on Game's Betterment" http://sports.ndtv.com/india-vs-south-africa-2015-16/news/252607-matthew-hayden-lashes-out-at-ravi-shastri-says-he-has-right-to-speak-on-game-s-betterment
Kaneria pledging his loyalty to Pakistan while rejecting a claim from an English-newspaper that he was interested in switching nationalities from Pakistani to English to further his career. 1 http://kaneria.bigstarcricket.com/bs/players/kaneria/article_4165.shtml
On Twenty20 cricket, in "Twenty20 game is 'underwear' cricket: Sidhu" in Daily News and Analysis (17 July 2006).
http://www.movietome.com/people/86509/daniel-radcliffe/trivia.html
By Allan Border.
Kumble Calls it a Day: Quotes... For and By Kumble...
“The coolest man in world cricket, MS Dhoni delivers when it matters the most.”
Michael Vaughn https://www.scoopwhoop.com/sports/dhoni-quotes/#.ttnzmcqgv
V.F.D.
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (2002)
Cricket on the Brain (1970)
By Ravi Shastri.
Kumble Calls it a Day: Quotes... For and By Kumble...
“If I can do something for the game and the young cricketers through the ICL, I will not budge”
Quoted in "Profile: Kapil Dev".
But his shoes were far too tight.
Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arly http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/pw/arly.html, st. 7 (1895).
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
“I tend to believe that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth.”
Pinter on Pinter in The Observer (1980)
Wicketkeeper-batsman Tim Ludeman of the Adelaide Strikers, The Advertiser (January 19, 2016), "Adelaide Strikers may roll the dice on star import Mahela Jayawardene" http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/cricket/adelaide-strikers-may-roll-the-dice-on-star-import-mahela-jayawardene/news-story/120958219581e550e2750ca5e45bc479
About
Steve Smith after scoring 23rd test century. https://www.cricket.com.au/news/steve-smith-century-australia-england-ashes-mcg-boxing-day-video-highlights-bradman-ponting/2017-12-30%3fmode=amp, 30 December, 2017.
By Ricky Ponting.
Kumble Calls it a Day: Quotes... For and By Kumble...
Interview with Indian Express http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/i-always-say-i-am-the-best-harbhajan-singh/, January 25, 2016.
Cricket on the Brain (1970)
India became a sporting nation in the last decade: Kumble
Miller v. Jackson [1977] QB 966 at 976.
Judgments
His Views on One day cricket.
Beating Pakistan, Kapil Dev's fondest 1992 World Cup memory