John Arlott quotes:

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

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.

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

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

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

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