19 Quotes by John Arlott

Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes.

Villagers do not think village cricket is funny.

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.