15 Jun 2010: Quote of the day: 15/06/2010
“I think England have a good chance of retaining the Ashes” – Sachin Tendulkar. Thank, you sir. Come again any time.
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12 Jun 2010: Quote of the day: 12/06/2010
“Blame is the comfort of the weak. Change is the name of a warrior, so we must be willing to make that change that would make a difference and not keep blaming each other” – This, from Trinidad and Tobago PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar telling West Indian cricketers to end their feud with the sport’s administrators, is the best cricketing quote we’ve heard in a very long time.
27 May 2010: Quote of the day: 27/05/2010
“Things turned ugly. The sides have a bit of a past” – a spectator describes the punch-up between the Third XIs of Oswestry CC and Whitchurch CC that resulted in an alleged headbutt from an umpire and a considerable presence from Her Majesty’s Constabulary.
20 May 2010: Quote of the day: 20/05/2010
“Not one ball. I don’t watch Twenty20. It is dumbing-down cricket. They should find another name for it” – West Indian great Michael Holding has not drunk the World Cup Kool-Aid any more than Geoff Boycott has.
17 May 2010: Quote of the day: 17/05/2010
“Just goes to show that if you watch England for long enough, eventually something good happens” – a laconic commenter on The Old Batsman’s blog.
11 May 2010: Quote of the day: 11/05/2010
“Mann tracht und Gott lacht” (Man plans and God laughs) – Betfair Blog’s Frank Gregan applies an old Yiddish saying to the Duckworth Lewis Method.
6 May 2010: Quote of the day: 6/05/2010
“If there was one defining image of the match it was surely the cutaway to the bikini-clad dancer whose job it is to wiggle and shake in celebration of each boundary. She was sat on the boundary rope hugging her knees and staring out into the middle like a pensioner in the passenger seat of a Vauxhall Cavalier looking out over the Bournemouth sea front” – The Guardian’s Andy Bull reports from the Caribbean.
3 May 2010: Quote of the day: 3/05/2010
“The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day” – We wonder if American novellist Michael Chabon might possibly enjoy cricket?
2 May 2010: Quote of the day: 2/05/2010
“We are so bound together that no man can labour for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe” – Jerome K Jerome was not talking about cricket when he wrote this sentence in his essay collection Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. But it is so beautifully apposite.
27 Apr 2010: Quote of the day: 27/04/2010
“Many reporters see it as part of their job to put words into their interviewee’s mouth. And if it is a good line, everyone is happy. The player’s image as a wise-cracking, one-liner spewing old pro is enhanced; or if he is one of those shy and retiring types who have shot their bolt after a preliminary “Huh”, then the reporter can bask in the glow that comes from getting his subject to say something articulate. And readers are happy they have a good read” – Suresh Menon of Dreamcricket ponders, very appositely for The Nurdler, the origins of the cricketing quote.