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Cricket Quotations: A Collection of fine paintings and the best cricket quotes
A gift for all cricket addicts, a collection of the most stylish paintings and wise, witty and memorable quotations about the sport that has become a national institution.
"There is a widely held and quite erroneous belief that cricket is just another game."
- H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh
"There is a widely held and quite erroneous belief that cricket is just another game."
- H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh
64 pages, Hardcover
First published July 15, 1992
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February 7, 2021
The quotations from a variety of sources, both players and non-players, are accompanied in this lovely book by an excellent selection of artwork including paintings, cigarette cards, stamps and magazine covers, all of which make it an engaging read.
Edmund Blunden, author of a most readable cricket book entitled 'Cricket Country', has an extract from 'Pride of the Village' that states, 'Cricket to us was more than play. It was a worship to the summer sun.' Perfectly true but I do remember once playing a game in winter when I was around seven or eight years old. The reason I recall it is that a neighbour of ours, and we were using the gate post as a wicket and bowling from across the road, came by on his daily trip to the public house and he said, 'What are you doing, it's the football season.' To which I replied, 'No, we're down under in Australia!' That is how I can estimate the date for it must have been the time of the 1954/55 MCC trip to Australia.
Mary Russell Mitford in 'Our Village' wrote, 'Who would think that a little bit of leather, and two pieces of wood, had such a delightful and delighting power!' I presume the two pieces of wood were when there were only two stumps rather than today's three because surely she didn't mean two bats? Her statement resonates with me for I was always delighted to be playing cricket, but we sometimes didn't have pieces of wood for stumps, that was when we played often in the back entry (alleyway) and used a dustbin as the stumps! It was so much better than playing against a wall with chalked wickets because we could have a wicketkeeper, which was always extra fun - even if you had to throw a jacket down on the hard 'corky' ball if you were soft!
Runner Doug Ibbotson once made an amusing comment when he said, 'As harrowing occupations go, there can't be much to choose between the Australian cricket captaincy and social work on skid row.' He probably said this around the time that Don Bradman was involved with Australian cricket or possibly when he was captain ... I wonder what the Don would have thought of that comment?
The late Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, one-time England Ladies captain, has some witty comments and alongside a delightful painting of a girl cricket coming off the field after a good knock an being applauded by her school friends, one of them is, 'We have nothing against men cricketers. Some of them are quite nice people, even though they don't win as often as we do.' A touch of oneupmanship, sorry oneupladyship, about that comment, I feel. But, she may have been correct at the time she said it!
A great comment is by Sarah Bernhardt, on seeing a game of football, apparently she said, 'I do love cricket it is so very English.' She must never have played French Cricket! And I am afraid that I cannot agree with William Temple who commented, 'Personally I have always looked upon cricket as organised loafing.' All I will say to that is, please go out and field on a hot, sunny afternoon for 50 overs and then go in to bat later on and see if it is loafing then!!
I mentioned the artwork at the beginning of the review, well, it does complement the quotations perfectly.
Edmund Blunden, author of a most readable cricket book entitled 'Cricket Country', has an extract from 'Pride of the Village' that states, 'Cricket to us was more than play. It was a worship to the summer sun.' Perfectly true but I do remember once playing a game in winter when I was around seven or eight years old. The reason I recall it is that a neighbour of ours, and we were using the gate post as a wicket and bowling from across the road, came by on his daily trip to the public house and he said, 'What are you doing, it's the football season.' To which I replied, 'No, we're down under in Australia!' That is how I can estimate the date for it must have been the time of the 1954/55 MCC trip to Australia.
Mary Russell Mitford in 'Our Village' wrote, 'Who would think that a little bit of leather, and two pieces of wood, had such a delightful and delighting power!' I presume the two pieces of wood were when there were only two stumps rather than today's three because surely she didn't mean two bats? Her statement resonates with me for I was always delighted to be playing cricket, but we sometimes didn't have pieces of wood for stumps, that was when we played often in the back entry (alleyway) and used a dustbin as the stumps! It was so much better than playing against a wall with chalked wickets because we could have a wicketkeeper, which was always extra fun - even if you had to throw a jacket down on the hard 'corky' ball if you were soft!
Runner Doug Ibbotson once made an amusing comment when he said, 'As harrowing occupations go, there can't be much to choose between the Australian cricket captaincy and social work on skid row.' He probably said this around the time that Don Bradman was involved with Australian cricket or possibly when he was captain ... I wonder what the Don would have thought of that comment?
The late Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, one-time England Ladies captain, has some witty comments and alongside a delightful painting of a girl cricket coming off the field after a good knock an being applauded by her school friends, one of them is, 'We have nothing against men cricketers. Some of them are quite nice people, even though they don't win as often as we do.' A touch of oneupmanship, sorry oneupladyship, about that comment, I feel. But, she may have been correct at the time she said it!
A great comment is by Sarah Bernhardt, on seeing a game of football, apparently she said, 'I do love cricket it is so very English.' She must never have played French Cricket! And I am afraid that I cannot agree with William Temple who commented, 'Personally I have always looked upon cricket as organised loafing.' All I will say to that is, please go out and field on a hot, sunny afternoon for 50 overs and then go in to bat later on and see if it is loafing then!!
I mentioned the artwork at the beginning of the review, well, it does complement the quotations perfectly.
July 25, 2011
This is a charming little collection of quotes that any lover of cricket will want; as for anybody else, it's not worth the price.
July 4, 2019
Short, witty, concise and interesting!
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