Quotes by John Arlott

“Villagers do not think village cricket is funny.”

“Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life.”

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

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

“Politics governs everything we do - the games we play, the way we play them, who we play.”