wicket quotes

'Cricket,'said Raffles,'like everything else, is a good enough sport until you discover a better. As a source of excitement it isn't in it with other things you wot of Bunny, and theinvoluntarycomparison becomes a bore. What's the satisfaction of taking a man's wicket when you want his spoons?' 414

- E(rnest) W(illiam) Hornung
  The Amateur Cracksman.

Then ye returned to your trinkets; then ye contented your souls With the flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The Islanders'.

Wake! for the Ruddy Ball has taken flight That scatters the slow Wicket of the Night; And the swift Batsman of the Dawn has driven Against the Star-spiked Rails a fiery smite. See Fitzgerald 324:82.

- Francis Thompson
'Wake! for the Ruddy Ball hasTaken Flight', parody of Edward Fitzgerald, quoted in J C Squire Apes and Parrots (1929).

The really great batsmen fall into two categories.One comes to the wicket saying to the bowlers 'I am going to slaughter you'. The other comes to the wicket saying 'You can't get me out'.

- Ben Travers
94 Declared Cricket Reminiscences.