--- title: "26 Cricket Match Quotes by 25 authors" description: "Browse 26 Cricket Match quotes by 25 authors. Discover the best Cricket Match sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/gautam-gambhir-3774_always_i-have-always-maintained-that-bowlers-wi_247141.png" --- > [I have always maintained that bowlers win you a cricket match whatever the format.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautam-gambhir/i-have-always-maintained-that-bowlers-win-you-a-cricket-match/) [Gautam Gambhir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautam-gambhir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/gautam-gambhir-3774_always_i-have-always-maintained-that-bowlers-wi_247141.png) > [He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aneurin-bevan/he-brings-to-the-fierce-struggle-of-politics-the-tepid-enthusiasm-of/) [Aneurin Bevan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aneurin-bevan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91c/aneurin-bevan-11144_afternoon_he-brings-to-the-fierce-struggle-of-poli_2741036.jpg) > [You don't come to a cricket ground to draw a cricket match.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ravi-shastri/you-don-t-come-to-a-cricket-ground-to-draw-a-cricket-match/) [Ravi Shastri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ravi-shastri/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ea/ravi-shastri-4954_come_you-don-t-come-to-a-cricket-ground-to-dr_2279443.png) > [Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-pinter/drama-happens-in-big-cricket-matches-but-also-in-small-cricket-matches/) [Harold Pinter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-pinter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c71/harold-pinter-3125_big_drama-happens-in-big-cricket-matches-but_804099.png) > [The Teacher asked all the students in a class to write an essay on a cricket match. All were busy writing except…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/troublemaker/the-teacher-asked-all-the-students-in-a-class-to-write-an-essay-on-a/) [Troublemaker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/troublemaker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/troublemaker-13460_funny-jokes_the-teacher-asked-all-the-students-in-a_1036369.jpg) > ['LIFE'is like a 'CRICKET' match know it. 'HITTING'century is 'SUCCESS' do it. 'YORKER' is a problem 'FACE' it. 'BOUNCER' is failure 'LEAVE'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shivanand-desai/life-is-like-a-cricket-match-know-it-hitting-century-is-success-do-it/) [Shivanand Desai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shivanand-desai/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/shivanand-desai-88338_cricket_life-is-like-a-cricket-match-know-it-hit_736687.jpg) > [I've been lucky, my wife's been amazing. Any time we've had cricket matches she sends me to the spare room to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jos-buttler/i-ve-been-lucky-my-wife-s-been-amazing-any-time-we-ve-had-cricket/) [Jos Buttler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jos-buttler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/352/jos-buttler-8973_amazing_i-ve-been-lucky-my-wife-s-been-amazing-a_1583235.jpg) > [I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/i-suppose-i-m-a-cultural-anglican-and-i-see-evensong-in-a-country/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea7/richard-dawkins-115_anglican_i-suppose-i-m-a-cultural-anglican-and-i_785824.jpg) > [“... I since cricket match do long to talk with one of my arms around you, then place both arms round you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster-2/i-since-cricket-match-do-long-to-talk-with-one-of-my-arms-around-you/) [E.M. Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/832/e-m-forster-2-1148_gay_i-since-cricket-match-do-long-to-talk-wi_1532807.jpg) > [I'd love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-boycott/i-d-love-to-see-pitches-start-very-dry-all-over-the-world-which-is/) [Geoffrey Boycott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-boycott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b4/geoffrey-boycott-19649_cricket_i-d-love-to-see-pitches-start-very-dry-a_1506235.jpg) > [My grandmother was whip smart as well as an incredible athlete. She played tennis in her sari, cheered on the Indian team…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pramila-jayapal/my-grandmother-was-whip-smart-as-well-as-an-incredible-athlete-she/) [Pramila Jayapal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pramila-jayapal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df1/pramila-jayapal-5245_cricket_my-grandmother-was-whip-smart-as-well-as_1774244.jpg) > [“I love Canada. I miss the heat of India, the food, the house lizards on the walls, the musicals on the silver…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/i-love-canada-i-miss-the-heat-of-india-the-food-the-house-lizards-on/) [Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6a/yann-martel-395_bad-hair_i-love-canada-i-miss-the-heat-of-india-t_3162604.jpg) > [When you are watching a cricket match, and a side is 140 for 5 and another 100 plus to get in trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ravi-shastri/when-you-are-watching-a-cricket-match-and-a-side-is-140-for-5-and/) [Ravi Shastri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ravi-shastri/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c15/ravi-shastri-4954_cricket_when-you-are-watching-a-cricket-match-an_642785.png) > [Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.’ This sort of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graeme-simsion/professor-tillman-most-of-us-here-are-not-scientists-so-you-may-need/) [Graeme Simsion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graeme-simsion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec8/graeme-simsion-3122_annoying_professor-tillman-most-of-us-here-are-no_411118.jpg) > [“For a boy who went out to it from the dulness of some country rectory, from a neighbourhood where a flower show…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saki/for-a-boy-who-went-out-to-it-from-the-dulness-of-some-country-rectory/) [Saki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70c/saki-19236_change_for-a-boy-who-went-out-to-it-from-the-du_419703.jpg) > [When a fan buys a ticket for a cricket match or a movie, he is not worried about the colour, creed, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ajith-kumar/when-a-fan-buys-a-ticket-for-a-cricket-match-or-a-movie-he-is-not/) [Ajith Kumar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ajith-kumar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/384/ajith-kumar-17363_cricket_when-a-fan-buys-a-ticket-for-a-cricket-m_2601353.jpg) > [One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-jackman/one-afternoon-when-i-was-9-my-dad-told-me-i-d-be-skipping-school-the/) [Hugh Jackman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-jackman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e3/hugh-jackman-1847_afternoon_one-afternoon-when-i-was-9-my-dad-told-m_3101748.jpg) > [When I was a child, I got an opportunity to see all the big players in a cricket match. I was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harshvardhan-rane/when-i-was-a-child-i-got-an-opportunity-to-see-all-the-big-players-in/) [Harshvardhan Rane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harshvardhan-rane/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2a/harshvardhan-rane-7027_children_when-i-was-a-child-i-got-an-opportunity_2367736.jpg) > [Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/cheat-good-heavens-this-is-an-amateur-cricket-match-amongst-leading/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c31/stephen-fry-573_artistic_cheat-good-heavens-this-is-an-amateur-cr_824363.jpg) > [“No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself against whatever comes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-hartley/no-i-thought-growing-more-rebellious-life-has-its-own-laws-and-it-is/) [L.P. Hartley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-hartley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/662/l-p-hartley-22537_god_no-i-thought-growing-more-rebellious-lif_1971225.jpg) > [“The industrial towns were far away, a smudge of smoke and misery hidden by the curve of the earth's surface. Down here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-industrial-towns-were-far-away-a-smudge-of-smoke-and-misery/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d98/george-orwell-57_far-away_the-industrial-towns-were-far-away-a-smu_2636489.jpg) > [“Even annoyed, as she was now, she vibrated the kind of barely restrained energy that made every part of him spark to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-kauffman/even-annoyed-as-she-was-now-she-vibrated-the-kind-of-barely/) [Donna Kauffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-kauffman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e41/donna-kauffman-2275_life_even-annoyed-as-she-was-now-she-vibrated_749420.jpg) > [“At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-m-w-wemyss/at-all-times-and-in-all-places-in-season-and-out-of-season-time-is/) [G.M.W. Wemyss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-m-w-wemyss/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51e/g-m-w-wemyss-29518_angling_at-all-times-and-in-all-places-in-season_503406.jpg) > [“Standing on the pavement was a big fat man whom Dixon recognized as his barber. Dixon felt a deep respect for this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kingsley-amis/standing-on-the-pavement-was-a-big-fat-man-whom-dixon-recognized-as/) [Kingsley Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kingsley-amis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfc/kingsley-amis-5258_cricket_standing-on-the-pavement-was-a-big-fat-m_2026943.png) > [“What adventure do you wish to go on next?" he asked, his voice low and intimate. And now she just wanted to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/megan-frampton/what-adventure-do-you-wish-to-go-on-next-he-asked-his-voice-low-and/) [Megan Frampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/megan-frampton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86b/megan-frampton-22380_adventure_what-adventure-do-you-wish-to-go-on-next_44575.jpg) > [“The only way to show your true feelings was through your behaviour and this – like a five-day Test cricket match –…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-p-fergusson/the-only-way-to-show-your-true-feelings-was-through-your-behaviour/) [L.P. Fergusson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-p-fergusson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8c/l-p-fergusson-99180_habits_the-only-way-to-show-your-true-feelings_1796567.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cricket-match/#itemlist", "name": "Cricket Match Quotes", "numberOfItems": 26, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have always maintained that bowlers win you a cricket match whatever the format.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gautam Gambhir" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautam-gambhir/i-have-always-maintained-that-bowlers-win-you-a-cricket-match/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/gautam-gambhir-3774_always_i-have-always-maintained-that-bowlers-wi_247141.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/gautam-gambhir-3774_always_i-have-always-maintained-that-bowlers-wi_247141.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/gautam-gambhir-3774_always_i-have-always-maintained-that-bowlers-wi_247141.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I have always maintained that bowlers win you a cricket match whatever the format.” — Gautam Gambhir", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aneurin Bevan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aneurin-bevan/he-brings-to-the-fierce-struggle-of-politics-the-tepid-enthusiasm-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91c/aneurin-bevan-11144_afternoon_he-brings-to-the-fierce-struggle-of-poli_2741036.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91c/aneurin-bevan-11144_afternoon_he-brings-to-the-fierce-struggle-of-poli_2741036.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91c/aneurin-bevan-11144_afternoon_he-brings-to-the-fierce-struggle-of-poli_2741036.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket…” — Aneurin Bevan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You don't come to a cricket ground to draw a cricket match.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ravi Shastri" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ravi-shastri/you-don-t-come-to-a-cricket-ground-to-draw-a-cricket-match/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ea/ravi-shastri-4954_come_you-don-t-come-to-a-cricket-ground-to-dr_2279443.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ea/ravi-shastri-4954_come_you-don-t-come-to-a-cricket-ground-to-dr_2279443.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ea/ravi-shastri-4954_come_you-don-t-come-to-a-cricket-ground-to-dr_2279443.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You don't come to a cricket ground to draw a cricket match.” — Ravi Shastri", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Drama happens in big cricket matches. 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Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.’ This sort of thing is incredibly annoying. 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Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.’ This…” — Graeme Simsion", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“For a boy who went out to it from the dulness of some country rectory, from a neighbourhood where a flower show and a cricket match formed the social landmarks of the year, the feeling of exile might not be very crushing, might indeed be lost in the sense of change and adventure.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Saki" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saki/for-a-boy-who-went-out-to-it-from-the-dulness-of-some-country-rectory/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70c/saki-19236_change_for-a-boy-who-went-out-to-it-from-the-du_419703.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70c/saki-19236_change_for-a-boy-who-went-out-to-it-from-the-du_419703.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70c/saki-19236_change_for-a-boy-who-went-out-to-it-from-the-du_419703.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For a boy who went out to it from the dulness of some country rectory, from a neighbourhood where a flower…” — Saki", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When a fan buys a ticket for a cricket match or a movie, he is not worried about the colour, creed, or religion of the person sitting next to him. 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Some parts more enthusiastically than others. He shifted his weight and sidestepped slightly in an effort to keep that reality as unnoticeable as possible. He’d become a master of that particular skill during the last few months she’d been on the station. He needn’t have worried. She didn’t so much as glance at him. Her irritation was focused solely on her big brother. “Did you really just perp walk Cooper down the harbor?” Logan’s eyebrows lifted along with his hands, which he held up at his sides, palms out. “Hold up, I didn’t--” “Save it,” Kerry said. She turned to Cooper. “I apologize. He forgets I’m an adult woman who can handle her own affairs.” She glared at her brother during that last part. “She’s right, you know.” This came from a little spitfire brunette who, given Kerry’s descriptions of her family, must be the middle McCrae sister, Fiona. Fists planted on her hips, managing to somehow look down her cute little nose at her much taller and much bigger brother, she added, “We’re trying to plan my wedding and grill her about Mr. Hot and Aussie here. I’d think by now you’d know that we’ve got this covered.” She made a brief gesture to the other women standing alongside her. “If we thought he was a danger to society, we would have called.” Cooper watched the ricocheting dialogue like a spectator at a cricket match, unable to squelch a grin. It was like watching his own sister, all grown up and in triplicate. As Kerry and Fiona closed in on a somehow now hapless-looking lumberjack of a police chief, Cooper stepped forward and stuck out his hand toward the taller, willowy young woman who stood just behind Fiona. Where Kerry was Amazonian and Fiona a little firebrand, their oldest sister was the epitome of cool, calm, and collected. “Hannah Blue, I presume? I’m Cooper Jax. 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The best days an angler spends upon his river – the river which is Heraclitus’ river, which is never the same as the angler is never the same, yet is the same always – are those he recollects in tranquillity, as wintry weather lashes the land without, and he, snug and warm, ties new patterns of dry-fly, and remembers the leaf-dapple upon clear water and the play of light and the eternal dance of ranunculus in the chalk-stream. A cricket match between two riotously inexpert village Second XIs is no less an instance of timeless, of time caught in ritual within an emerald Arcadia, than is a Test at Lord’s, and we who love the greatest of games know that we do indeed catch a fleeting glimpse of a spectral twelfth man on every pitch, for in each re-enactment of the mystery there is the cumulation of all that has gone before and shall come after. Et ego in Arcadia.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "G.M.W. 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She'd also heard them admire the fact that she wasn't as hideous as her dowry could allow her to be. But she had never heard that kind of frank, unadulterated admiration. \"A gambling den, then. What about more cricket matches? Or are those too tame for her ladyship?\" he teased. The image of him shirtless, his muscles shifting in the sun, made her all squirmy again. \"More cricket matches too, please,\" she said in a breathy voice. 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