Cricket quotes or should I say silly points. Please share yours. They don’t have to be silly.
But my first one is a bit funny coming from Darren Gough.
"I’m not charging in bowling at 100mph but I am getting there "
Darren Gough
Another Darren but Lehman on Australia's plans against the Lankans in the semifinal.
"Our plan is to take early wickets"
Now, I wana know which team plans NOT to take early wickets?.
I dont have any so im comin up with my own
From Bangladeshi Pace Bowler Manjur-ul-Islam…
“My Man of the Match award should be shared with My skipper Khaled Mashud for taking a spectacular catch behind the wicket to dismiss Ricky Ponting”
"Poisoned by his mother? It is good, very good. It ranks up there with the one 'I got it from the toilet seat’” - World Anti-Doping Agency President Dick Pound after Shane Warne tested positive for drugs…with his old girl taking the blame.
“This is all nonsense, you can’t use your mom as an excuse, because she could have called the hotline, like so many parents of other elite athletes do” - Australian Medical Association chief Dr Kerry Phelps on the ‘blame the mum’ theory.
“My third and final World Cup begins for Australia today and I am desperate to make an impression…Can I say, for the record, that I am quite content with my natural appearance…Predictions can rebound in your face, but I genuinely think that when all our players are fit and available - which will happen at some stage - we are better than four years ago…Finishing as the leading wicket-taker would be a great way to go” - A few extracts from Warne’s column in the Times newspaper on February 11, the day he left South Africa in disgrace.
“Warne Looking To Go Out On A High” - Headline on the Sky Sports website three days previously.
“That is what you do when you have a shoulder injury - you try to recover” - Many thanks to Sky commentator Tony Greig for these profound words of wisdom .
“I think Hayden has set himself to go right through to the end of the innings” - Richie Benaud, during Australia’s match with Holland.
“And Hayden is caught” - Richie Benaud one ball later.
“He literally fell out of his pants [trousers]” - Description of Percy Sonn, the president o the United Cricket Board, at the game between India and Holland in Paarl, by racing driver Sarel van der Merwe.
“I am a person who likes my liquor. I was not confronted [at the match] and I don’t know what I was supposed to have done. If I used foul language, it was probably suitable to the circumstances” - Sonn.
“I have thought about the costs of making a stand and I think Christianity transcends everything else. Christians are called to speak out against evil, to speak out against things that are wrong and that are wicked. In the face of wickedness, my stand is simply that I am merely doing my duty as a Christian” - Zimbabwe’s Henry Olonga on you-should-know-what.
“India has to keep on its toes like a midget at a urinal” - Navjot Singh Sidhu on his country’s World Cup chances.
“Like a cow in the African jungles” - Kapil Dev on the India cricket team after their opening two matches.
“It’s pretty sad cars windows are broken, stones are thrown at players’ houses. Once we start winning things will be back to normal… this is the way things go back in India and we got to live with it." - Sourav Ganguly.
“There was one pull shot he had and I just mentioned to him ‘make sure you pick the right one to have a pull at’ and he had a go at me for not bowling at the stumps. I said, ‘why would I? You always smash me when I bowl straight’” - Glenn McGrath recounts his experiences with Sachin Tendulkar.
“Hitting a boundary off one of my idols is a moment I will always cherish, I will tell my children that I hit a boundary off the great bowler and they will also enjoy it” - Namibia may have been bowled out for 82 to suffer a 171-run defeat to Pakistan but Rudolph van Vuuren looks on the bright side after hitting Wasim to the boundary.
"It’s not often that you get a big hundred and end up losing” - Herschelle Gibbs explains why he knocked down the dressing room door following defeat to New Zealand.
“When Vaas got that hat-trick the match all changed” - Sri Lanka skipper Sanath Jayasuriya wins the award for ‘stating the bleeding obvious’ after Chaminda took a wicket with the first three balls of the match with Bangladesh.
“Having been taken apart by the British media for that 1996 World Cup opening ceremony, it was sweet to see the childish amateurish effort of the 1999 opening ceremony in England and here too, the hype surrounding the ceremony may have been the reason for the disappointment for the expectations were high” - Sunil Gavaskar proves that no only does he have a long memory but he remains as bitter as ever.
“I still can’t believe that we qualified. In Guyana, I had to go on five or six television programs just to let people know where Canada stood as a cricket nation because nobody could believe that Canada made the World Cup” - Canada’s Nicholas Degroot.
“I think they’re too good for us. But we back ourselves” - Holland’s wicketkeeper Jeroen Smits analyses his side’s chances of chasing 198 to beat Australia live on Sky during the mid-innings break.
“I firmly believe I have nothing to apologise for. At no stage did I swear at [Malcolm] Speed, at no stage was I rude. I let the head of the ICC know they had let us down.” - Nasser Hussain on the row that could see him resign as England captain.
“We still wouldn’t know if we hadn’t seen it on television” - Paul Collingwood on Nasser’s revelation that he could resign.
“He [Jonty Rhodes] is irreplaceable, so I’m not going to try. But he did give me some advice about fielding at backward point, though. He said ‘don’t field there’ - Graeme Smith, the replacement for Rhodes, ruled out for the rest of the tournament after breaking his hand while fielding against Kenya.
“We’ve had 30% more customers. We did record business on the 11 February, mainly from people who said they had come to see the cricket. I think the fans that come just want to discover what else this country has to offer them!” - Jo-Marie Nell, a manager of one of Cape Town’s major strip clubs, as quoted by the BBC.
“All the big games seem to be played away from Johannesburg, so our business has been suffering. But England and Pakistan will be playing here soon, and things should certainly start to brighten up then!” - ‘Cathy’, the manager of a Joburg brothel.
“Brow-beaten, publicly humiliated, assaulted and summarily ejected” - Spectator Arthur Williamson recounts his experience of attending the match between Australia and India during which he was thrown out for drinking a can of Coca-cola.
“Here we go. It’s not a bomb check, it’s the Coke police” - Unnamed spectator, as quoted by The Guardian, as he approached the metal detectors before entering the ground for a match.
“When we came here we knew the Test-playing nations would be a tough ask. But we didn’t expect to fold up like this” - Canada captain Joe Harris after being bowled-out for 36, the lowest one-day international score in history.
“It was a pretty good wicket” - Harris.
thnx for sharin umair:k:…