John Arlott Quotations

Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes.

Villagers do not think village cricket is funny.

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

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.

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Australianism' means single-minded determination to win - to win within the laws but, if necessary, to the last limit within them. It means where the 'impossible' is within the realm of what the human body can do, there are Australians who believe that they can do it - and who have succeeded often enough to make us wonder if anything is impossible to them. It means they have never lost a match - particularly a Test match - until the last run is scored or their last wicket down.