Template:Hoffnung on cricket

HOFFNUNG: I enjoy watching sports occasionally, you know.
RICHARDSON: What sports do you, ah — ?
HOFFNUNG: Yes! I like that sport where a lot of people are asleep on a lawn, you know, and they sit around in deck chairs. And there are some people in the middle of the lawn, and they do something. There’s a chap with a barber’s coat on.
RICHARDSON: You consider that — sport?
HOFFNUNG: Yes, Oh, yes! And then it starts raining, you know, and they all wake up, then somebody says, “well played, sir” —
RICHARDSON: Oh! I see! You are talking about this game of cricket!
HOFFNUNG: Cricket! Cricket! That’s right, yes, I like cricket! Yes, I enjoy that, I really do.

— Charles Richardson interviews Gerard Hoffnung, BBC, 1951