Cricket is a batsman's game.

-Benaud, Richie (Richard)
Way of Cricket.

Thereisprobablyagreater premiumontemperamentfor a batsman than for any player in any branch of sport.

-Bradman, Sir Don(ald George)
  The Art of Cricket.

The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey.

-Johnston, Brian
  Radio commentary, during a Test match between England and the West Indies.

If the wild bowler thinks he bowls Or if the batsman thinks he's bowled, They know not, poor misguided souls, They too shall perish unconsoled. I am the batsman and the bat, I am the bowler and the ball, The umpire, the pavilion cat, The roller, pitch, and stumps and all. See Emerson 313:39.

-Lang, Andrew
'Brahma'. Quoted by Alan Richardson in a letter to The Times, 18 May,1963.

It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, Though my own red roses there may blow; It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, Though the red roses crest the caps, I know. For the field is full of shades as I near theshadowy coast, And a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost, And I look through my tears on a soundless-clapping host As the run-stealers flicker to and fro, To and fro:ö O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago!

-Thompson, Francis
  'At Lord's', poem dedicated to friends to explain why he could not attend a match at Lord's at their invitation for fear of the sadness it would cause him, remembering the long-dead friends who had played there (for Lancashire) back in1878.

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.

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