Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.
It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.
A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
As Far As One-Day Cricket Is Concerned, Dhoni Is One Of The Greatest Captains Of All Times
I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test
My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.
A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.
I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized.
We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.
I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.
During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.
Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
Cricket was my reason for living.
I do love cricket - it's so very English.
What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.
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