Some of Yabba's best remembered insults include: • "I wish you were a statue and I were a pigeon." • Telling a fly-swatting English cricket captain,
Douglas Jardine, to "Leave those flies alone, they are your only friends here." • "Bowl the bastard a grand piano and see if he can play that instead!" • "Those are the only balls you've touched all day!" (To an English batsman adjusting his
box in between overs). • "Put a penny in him, George, he's stopped registering" (To umpire George Borwick who read
gas meters and emptied the cash boxes for a living, when
Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi was scoring slowly) • "Your length's lousy but you bowl a good width!" (To an opposition bowler) ==Notes==