20 Hilarious one liners used by the Cricket commentators

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’.

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’.

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’.

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 4^th gear’.

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.

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’.

7. Navjot Singh Siddhu on Ajit Agarkar:

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

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’?

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’

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’.

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’.

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’.

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’.

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

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

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!

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.

17. Sehwag hits a boundary and Ravi Shastri remarks:

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

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.

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!

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

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