equatorRecently I was sent a copy of Lawrence Booth’s new book.
It is just a tiny little thing, resplendent looking in Wisden yellow.
The book is not Lawrence’s prose, but instead a collection of cricket quotes from around the world over the years.
I must admit that I am a bit of a sucker for cricket quotes, there have been times when I have spent hours going through the online quote section at cricinfo looking for gems.
This book now allows me to do this offline, and brings me beauties from the games past as well.
Plus I get the odd pithy remark from Lawrence underneath, nice work.
There is even a quote from Dirty Dirk Nannes saying arse. I prefer ass, but this is Lawrence’s book, so his rules.
Being that I like Lawrence and Quotes I am biased towards this book from the start, but if anyone else likes cricket quotes, there is just no reason not to buy the bugger.
It should also be noted that the patron saint of cricket with balls is mentioned, so how could I not like a book that quotes, and bags, Neil Harvey.
Just to prove I am not talking shit, here is 3 quotes i have taken from random page selections.
“Mummy, He doesn’t look like a murderer” Harold Larwood over hearing a young boy.
“Well, I open for Somerset so I might as well go in first.” Harold Gimblett to fellow mental patients waiting for electroconvulsive therapy.
“Nothing bad can happen to us if we’re in Indian on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it” Hashim Amla
So buy the book, you know your coffee table wants it.
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You are so right – my coffee table is gagging for that and so is my blog. Have just added it to my amazon christmas/birthday/wedding anniversaty wishlist. I’m bound to get it.
thanks for that.
Here’s a quote for you Jrod
Asked if White should fill the vacancy left by Ponting as skipper of Australia’s T20 side, McGain said: “Absolutely. No question at all.
“It would be a great selection for the future. He has got great leadership qualities so I would absolutely endorse that,” McGain said.
and…
“His record is second to none. It’s comparable to the world’s best in Twenty20 cricket,” McGain said of Hodge.
“There’s no better opening bat than he. He has proven to be the best opening bat in Australian domestic cricket.
“It’s a different game and the experience lies with the domestic players who have been doing it for a number of years.
“So it (including Hodge) would make a bit more sense from the Australian selectors going into that West Indies series.”
I guess McGain is giving up on ever playing for Australia again if he is pushing Hodge to the Australian selectors.
Park – “There’s no better opening bat than he.”
This is why McGain won’t ever get picked for Australia again. Forget the mauling he got against the saffers, there is not a chance in hell that Australian selectors would pick a bloke who speaks with correct grammer. Maybe if he put “and that” at the end of the sentence, or if him randomly threw in the word cunt, but otherwise … he’s cactus.
You prefer ‘ass’ to ‘arse’? What? Ploise explayne…
I hope it’s because of the accent I assume Dirty Dirk has and not a final nail in the coffin of local culture due to the overwhelming saccharine shinyness that is the main feature of the apparent total American cultural hegemony over the great southern land in this sad century.
OK, as a strayun living in pommieland maybe I’m biased but the seppo use of ‘ass’ where ‘arse’ is the right word clearly shows the inability of 300 million people to get the point of anything with any subtlety – including cricket, for that matter. It is good to call someone an ‘ass’ – the horse donkey mutant. It is also good to call someone an ‘arse’ – the thing that pads your spine when you sit. In fact arse is usually more offensive and having this gradation of meaning gives us all extra nuance with which to abuse someone.
By the way, and as a lone voice in the wilderness apparently, I quite like one day cricket. It’s 20 Twenty (Twenty 20, 20/20, twentytwenty) that I find dull. I’m happy that Indian people seem to enjoy their IPL (although I wonder at the truth of it) but it seems that just as the game starts to get going it’s over. Good for TV, bad for wasting a day (or a week for test but no-one seems to dislike test cricket in the ‘blogsphere -uggh to that term – or sporting press).
DLF Maximum to the max!
Johnny Twoshoes, I like ass better because I had a teacher once tell me ass was a spelling mistake, that teacher was an asshole, so I have used ass ever since.
Fair enuf. There’s a string of asshole teachers who have damaged me for life, also.