The Final Test (1953)

Ray Jackson: Reggie Palmer

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• Reggie Palmer : I'm afraid I don't awfully like cricket.

  Alexander Whitehead : Don't you really? I have heard of such people.

• Reggie Palmer : Whatever you think about the game, it does resolve itself into banging a bit of red leather about a field with a piece of wood.

• Alexander Whitehead : Why don't you like cricket?

  Reggie Palmer : Well the fact of the matter is I find it so frightfully dull.

  Alexander Whitehead : Frightfully dull? Well of course it's frightfully dull - that's the whole point. Any game can be exciting - football, dirt-track racing, roulette. The measure of the vast superiority of cricket over any other game is that it steadfastly refuses to cater to this boorish craving for excitement.