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A good collection of ‘Cricket Jokes’… Hope they make you smile too:)
Robin Williams says “Cricket is basically baseball on valium.” And I already think baseball is too slow.
Okay, and the real joke is that I thought this was about those little black hoppy bugs that make such wonderful mood music at night 😮
I’ve got to start thinking more globally!
Jeff Thomson once said that the aim of a bowler when bowling a bouncer was to hurt the batsman.
“Truthfully, I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. It doesn’t worry me in the least to see a batsman hurt, rolling around screaming, blood on the pitch. I like to see blood on the pitch.”
That quote created a huge controversy then, and understandably so. I doubt that Thommo meant it, though. I think it would take just one incident like this for even the most ruthless fast bowler to stop wanting to hurt a batsman. You can have all the protective gear in the world, but a hard leather ball at 100mph can still cause unbelievable damage.
While searching for that quote by Thomson, I came across this funny (?) story about his bowling partner, the equally ferocious Dennis Lillee
“There is a famous story of Lillee delivering a swinging yorker into the pads of an opening batsman and yelling an appeal. The batsman was plumb and the umpire gave him out. Lillee was surprised when the player didn’t move but stood, propped on his bat, at the crease. “Owzat,” yelled Dennis again. “That’s out,” shouted the umpire. Still the batsman didn’t move. ”That’s out, you Pommie *******,” said Dennis. ”Now bugger off.” Whereupon the batsman said: “I’d love to, Dennis, but I can’t. You see, I think you’ve broken my bloody leg.” And he had.”
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