PLAYER QUOTES
No
motorways or mobile phones. No video replays. No marketing managers.
Sit
back and enjoy the memories of the old players –
memories
of a time when cricket was still the people’s summer game.
It was born in me to play cricket. The days were never long enough.
Arthur
Milton
Can you imagine going by train from Taunton? We spent about four hundred
hours each summer at Bristol Temple Meads, waiting for connections.
Ken
Biddulph
We had to stay in two hotels. There wasn’t anywhere big enough in the town.
Merv
Winfield
Vic Munden was allocated the job of bringing some six inch nails
to make sure we’d got enough pegs.
Maurice
Hallam
You came in on the first day. You took your tie off, you put it on the peg, and
there was this glorious uncertainty of not knowing what was going to happen.
Malcolm
Heath
“Get padded up, you’re in.” “No, I’ve been in, skipper.”
It was that kind of comedy.
Tom
Cartwright
Les was the greatest. I could take a chair, sit down by the sight screen
and watch him bowl all day.
Bomber
Wells
I didn’t envisage having to bat again, but that’s the game, isn’t it?
That’s what makes it so compelling.
Terry
Spencer
There were three to win off four balls.
Why on earth did he keep trying to hit sixes?
Dickie
Dodds
Cricket is a lifetime’s job. You’ve got to eat, drink and play it.
Dennis
Brookes
He used to phone Jim Laker at The Oval and say, ‘I’ve lost my mechanics, Jim,
I can’t bowl,’ and Jim would say, ‘What do you expect me to do, Roly?
I can’t see what you’re doing wrong from a hundred miles away.’
Martin
Horton
You didn’t always think so then, but it was the most wonderful time.
Bryan Stott