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• Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a…
• 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
• Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator
• 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…
• 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.
• Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.
• Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

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