Possible Clues:

• One may make too much of having had too much of course, by the sound of it
• Took too much of the sound of it, of course
• Sounds as if more than eight was too much to have eaten, by the sound of it
• Place too much importance on bowlers' speed
• Attach too much importance to speed of deliveries
• Attach too much importance to first four characters in 6 down in front of judge
• Think too much of Romeo, who got stuffed outside
• Make too high an estimate of
• Make too much of charge on six deliveries?
• Make too much of frequency of deliveries