Cricket Historian Gifts

Cricketers

Imran Khan

"I don't care if it's more bouncy - it threatens the integrity of the game."

Remarkable run-ups 1890-1940

'Let's see. One dozen red wigglers, two dozen nightcrawlers,three dozen crickets. Want flies with that?'

Pirate captain: 'I'm so embarrassed! I walked around all day with my swash unbuckled!'

Golfers forming the raising the flag on Iwo Jima.

Before instant replay.

'The MCC celebrate a famous victory' group of dodgy looking old English men holding drinking glasses

End of football season - UK

Mudville

Ancient Roman Cheerleaders.

Cartoon on Sachin Tendulkar's comparison to Don Bradman

'Olympic stadium for sale available 2013.'

'Oh, for the good old peaceful test match.'

"No, the guy with the bat doesn't get to kill the guys with the mitts."

"We have half your money in bonds and annuities, the other half under an oak tree in the Caymans."

'That stranger's tellin' the truth, sheriff. Ol' Buford here done went into his windup first.'

Tour de Lance Over. Next year the To de France returns!

Footballers in the Middle Ages.

"Going cold turkey might be too much for him . . . Let him watch reruns of the 1977 centenary test in Melbourne until the lockdown is over!"

"There's another thing - d'you realise it's over forty-three years since I took my last wicket?"

Match-fixing (cricket)

'He's been this way since the Red Sox won the pennant!'

'Where's the evidence keeping us out?'

'Mogug is big and strong, and swings his club with power. I suggest we let him play rightfield and bat third.'

Spectators at a coliseum

"Three generations of football"

stonehenge bowling...

'I'm sure that last ball was lbw.'

World's Oldest Ball Boy.

'Just 3 problems with the England team - they can't bat, can't bowl and can't field!'

Diego Maradona, 1960-2020

John Wooden.

W. G. Grace