46 Inspiraing and Motivational Cricket Quotes from Super Stars

Cricket Quotes – Cricket, a game that has millions of followers and lovers from all over the globe. It is probably the second most famous sport in the entire world, while football is placed at the top of the list.

People love playing, watching, and feeling cricket at home, at the stadium, at offices, and any other place where they are gathered with some friends or family members. A team of eleven persons plays against a team of eleven persons.

46 Most Beautiful Cricket Quotes for Cricket Enthusiasts

“The slow-motion replay doesn’t show how fast the ball was really travelling.” ~ Richie Benaud
“I bowl so slowly that if I don’t like a ball I can run after it and bring it back” ~ James M. Barrie
“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
“It’s a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it’s when you discover that your wife left you in May.” ~ Denis Norden
“Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.” ~ Alec Douglas-Home
“I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth – certainly greater than sex, although sex isn’t too bad either.” ~ Harold Pinter
“That’s what cricket’s all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another” ~ Fred Trueman
“I can’t really say I’m batting badly. I’m not batting long enough to be batting badly” ~ Greg Chappell
“The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn’t fielding” ~ Ian Chappell
“A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.” ~ Neville Cardus
“The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.” ~ Navjot Singh Sidhu
“Shane Warne’s idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand” ~ Ian Healy
“The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.” ~ Richie Benaud
“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
“I’ve never got to the bottom of streaking” ~ Jonathan Agnew
“The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk” ~ John Arlott
“In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.” ~ Ian Peebles
“Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.” ~ Robert Mugabe
“Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.” ~ Sachin Tendulkar
“Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator” ~ John Arlott
“The first time you face up to a googly you’re going to be in trouble if you’ve never faced one before” ~ Trevor Bailey
“Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.” ~ David Acfield
“A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.” ~ Ranjitsinhji
“I’ll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don’t think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.” ~ Shane Warne
“Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.” ~ John Fowles
“Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline.” ~ Ian Peebles
“The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It’s long and square.” ~ Trevor Bailey
“A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick” ~ John Arlott
“There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa” ~ Trevor Bailey
“I don’t think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want” ~ Mike Gatting
“Cricket is a team game. If you want fame for yourself, go play an individual game.” – Gautam Gambhir
“The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.” – Mahendra Singh Dhoni
“A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.” – Richie Benaud
“It cricket requires one to assume such indecent postures.” – Oscar Wilde
“Cricket to us was more than play, It was a worship in the summer sun.” – Edmund Blunden
“Cricket is an international game which is played by a diverse range of cultures and communities. Respect for each other is a key component of the game and racist comments have no place in cricket.” – Malcolm Speed
“Cricket is an international game which is played by a diverse range of cultures and communities. Respect for each other is a key component of the game and racist comments have no place in cricket.” – Malcolm Speed
“Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.” – Ken Doyle
“A good cricketer never loses his nerve. He just bats on!” – Anthony T. Hincks
“In cricket, you have a sense of sport as it should be played by people who respect each other. They fought fiercely but they were friends.” – Peter Kellne
“Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches” – Paul Hogan
“One-day cricket is an exhibition. Test cricket is an examination.” – Henry Blofeld