John Arlott
John Arlott
Leslie Thomas John Arlott OBEwas an English journalist, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special. He was also a poet and wine connoisseur. With his poetic phraseology, he became an iconic cricket commentator noted for his "wonderful gift for evoking cricketing moments" by the BBC...
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Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.
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Villagers do not think village cricket is funny.
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Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes.
umpires dresses tasks
It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.
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Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator
men he-man impulse
Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.
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We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.
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The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk
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Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.
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A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick
technique nests umbrella
The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.
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Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.
lonely team games
Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.
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