What Are The Butchers For?
And other splendid cricket quotations

What Are The Butchers For? is Wisden’s collection of the finest and most memorable cricket quotations. Compiled by Lawrence Booth, it features over 1,500 of the most memorable bons mots, aphorisms, witticisms, putdowns, hymns of praise, slices of cod philosophy and dollops of pomposity. This wide-ranging compilation taps into cricket’s richly quirky history while keeping pace with the fast-changing nature of the modern game.

Inside its 208 pages are gems from WG to KP, George Gunn to Graham Gooch, Groucho Marx to Rafa Benitez. If you intrigued by cricket’s connections with the theatre, animals, God or possibly sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, then this book is for you. From the sublime to the plainly ridiculous, “What Are The Butchers For?” touches on every aspect of the game – and plenty besides.

• Introduction by Lawrence Booth

• A few sample quotes from What Are The Butchers For?

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