20 Hilarious one liners used by the Cricket commentators

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20 Hilarious one liners used by the Cricket commentators: Cricket commentary has become very popular these days and is an integral part of the game. Many famous cricketers after their retirement turn to this profession and gives it a touch of glamour and appeal with their voice. Their quick sense of humor is always great to listen, along with their amazing insight. Keeping the listeners entertained is a tough job and they are masters in it.

Here we bring to you the wittiest one-liners quoted by the commentators during various cricket matches. 20 Hilarious one liners used by the Cricket commentators:

1. Harsha Bhogle on Chris Gayle’s smashing innings during an IPL match: 

‘6 and 4 seem to have become the new binary code for this man’.

Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle. (© Getty Images)

2. In a match between India and Australia, Michel Clarke was caught at the slip off Kumble and he was waiting for third umpires’ decision when he was clearly out. Harsha said:

‘I think he is waiting for tomorrows newspapers to declare him out’.

Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle. (© Getty Images)

3. Once when Sachin and Dhoni were playing. Dhoni was hitting bowlers to all ends and then Sachin got the strike and caressed one for a boundary:

Harsha said, ‘We have a surgeon at one end and the butcher at the other’.

Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle. (© Getty Images)

4. Harsha on Glenn Maxwell’s incredible form:

‘He just loves to storm through, I guess if he had a car, he would probably start it in the 4th gear’.

Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle. (© Getty Images)

5. In a match Dravid and Ganguly panicked when running between the wickets and Ganguly sent him back from half pitch:

Siddhu: ‘Ganguly threw drowning Dravid, a rope with both loose ends.

Navjot Singh Sidhu
Navjot Singh Sidhu. (Photo Source: Rediff)

6. In the IPL match between Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders in 2013 Yusuf Pathan hit a powerful lofted shot straight down the ground off Karan Sharma. The umpire Asad Rauf was lucky to get out the way of the ball just in time:

Rameez Raja: ‘For a moment the umpire had his heart in his mouth, If he had not ducked in time he might have had the ball in his mouth too’.

Rameez Raja
Rameez Raja. ( Photo Source: Google)

7. Navjot Singh Siddhu on Ajit Agarkar:

‘If Ajit Agarkar is an all-rounder then I am Aishwarya Rai’.

Navjot Singh Sidhu
Navjot Singh Sidhu. (Photo Source: Rediff)

8. Geoffrey Boycott during the lunch show: 

Sachin may be a great batsman, but he has never been on the Lords honours boards!

Harsha Bhogle: ‘So whose loss is it more, Sachin’s or the honours boards’?

Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle. (© Getty Images)

9. Rajat Bhatia bowling gently. Harsha says:

‘Any bowler has 3 pace variations – fast, medium and slow. But Rajat Bhatia has – slow, slower and slowest’

Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle. (© Getty Images)

10. India’s 9th wicket fell, the No.11, Narendra Hirwani is walking out to bat. The commentator (Ian Chappell) asks Harsha whether Hirwani can bat. Harsha says:
‘If you make a team with all the No.11s of all the teams, Hirwani would still come at No.11 in the line up’.

Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle. (© Getty Images)

11. This was in a match between India and South Africa. Umpire Rudi Kuertzen caught on camera sporting a rare smile. Harsha commented:

‘Last time Rudi Kuerzten smiled there was peace in West Asia’.

Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle. (© Getty Images)

12. When Gambhir was dropped twice on consecutive deliveries, Harsha joked:

‘We should conduct a dream job in Australia & the winner will get to stand in the slip region’.

Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle. (© Getty Images)

13. Harsha: 

India doesn’t have a set fast bowling attack, (Describes each bowler)… Pravin Kumar has vanished…
Gavskar: Vanished or banished ??

Harsha:

‘If you’re from Bengal, both mean the same, actually he has vanished’.

Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle. (© Getty Images)

14. Navjyot Singh Siddhu commenting oh Rohan Gavaskar’s performance said:

‘Every thing coming out of cow is not milk my friend’

Navjot Singh Sidhu
Navjot Singh Sidhu. (Photo Source: Rediff)

15. Sidhu:

Pitches biwiyon ki tarah hoti hai..kab badal jaye, koi nahi bol sakta!

Translation: Pitches are like wives, nobody can predict when they are going to change!

Navjot Singh Sidhu
Navjot Singh Sidhu. (Photo Source: Rediff)

16. Simon Doull:

What was he thinking? What an awful shot he has played? This shows money doesn’t buy you brain.’. Referring to Jadeja being auctioned for $ 2 millions.

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17. Sehwag hits a boundary and Ravi Shastri remarks:

‘It’s gone to the boundary before you can say KULASEKARA’.

Ravi Shastri
Ravi Shastri. (© Getty Images)

18. During an India-WI test in the summer of 2011. Andre Russel had just dived to save a boundary.

Ian Bishop: Reminds you of a young Tony Cozier, this man.
Tony Cozier: You weren’t even a thought in your parents’ head when I did that.

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19. Michael Atherton: ‘It is England but India has more support in the stadium, and the pitch is completely assisting your spinners. Says a lot about our hospitality, right.’

Harsha Bhogle: Well.. we let you rule our nation for so many years. I believe that’s the least you can do for us.
Michael Atherton speechless!

Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle. (© Getty Images)

20. An Australian fielder drops a simple catch. To this, Harsha says: 

‘I tell you what, these are the most difficult catches to drop!!!’

Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle. (© Getty Images)

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