Sport

Cricket

Cricket ?, I thought it was an English food
Alex Metreveli 1967

A cricketer - a creature very nearly as stupid as a dog
Bernard Levin 1965

The synthetic indignation of certain English cricketers over alleged Pakisani ball tampering - the unedifying in pursuit of the unbeatable
Patrick Collins 1992

Sunday League Cricket - multi coloured pyjamas, two tone umpires and white balls with black seams. There is nothing like traditional English sport
David Hunn 1992

The fixture list could not indeed have been drawn up with a typewriter. But thats only because monkeys are too clever to devise a programme which makes English cricketers play as much, rather than play as well as possible... No self respecting dog would dine on the uncoordinated mess that English professional cricket has become
Scyld Berry