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“I see a tough time for our cricket. Senior players will establish records and go home, but our cricket will struggle. Young players aren't playing with the freedom that they should enjoy. The selectors and the cricket board should take responsibility for that.”

Should Home Young Enjoy Responsibility Struggle Records Player Tough Boards Senior Cricket Taking Responsibility Tough Times Sri Lanka

Author:Arjuna Ranatunga

“Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.”

Source: The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs

“Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night”

Night Sound Bird Rose Leafs Cricket Frogs Ponds Swamps Puddles Gators

Author:Robert R. McCammon

“I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.”

Sound Musician Bird Accomplished Los Angeles Cricket Frogs Owl Canyons Faux Rustic Critters

Author:Cliff Martinez

“It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.”

Ifs Cities Civilization Creatures Bird Silent Forests Cricket Lit Restless Corpses Tombs Meadows Graveyard Eerie Birdsong

Book:The New Hunger (The Warm Bodies Series): The Prequel to Warm Bodies

Source: The New Hunger (The Warm Bodies Series): The Prequel to Warm Bodies

“It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.”

People Play Used Hurt Tests Technique Cricket Temperament Hurt Me

Author:Gautam Gambhir

“There is so much uncertainty in cricket. One day you can get a hundred, the next day you can be dismissed for a zero. It makes you become practical about things. Teaches you to accept both success and failure. I think I have learnt a lot about life from cricket.”

Thinking Next Accepting Teach One Day Hundred Practicals Uncertainty Zero Next Day Cricket Success And Failure

Author:Mahela Jayawardene

“India Are Playing Very Good Cricket Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.”

India Very Good Cricket Dhoni Ms Dhoni

Author:Brian Lara

“The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.”

World Sometimes Social Justice Responsibility Social Justice Social Responsibility Cricket Cant Howl

Author:Dean Koontz

“I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.”

Trying Sports Failure Perseverance Cricket Not Giving Up

Author:Rahul Dravid

“Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.”

People Lucky Various Enormous Cricket Publicity

Author:Rahul Dravid

“Ladies playing cricket? Absurd. Just like a man trying to knit”

Men Trying Absurd Cricket Playing Cricket

Author:Len Hutton

“Dhoni has been an outstanding captain. His record as captain is simply terrific. He has done wonders to Indian cricket.”

Has Beens Done Wonder Records Indian Captains Cricket Terrific Outstanding Dhoni

Author:Sourav Ganguly

“Village cricket spread fast through the land.”

Land Spread Village Cricket Playing Cricket

Author:G. M. Trevelyan

“If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.”

Ifs Has Beens Capable Cricket Peasants Playing Cricket

Book:English Social History

Source: English Social History

“When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads, Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds, Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death, Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons. Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice, Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves: Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus, While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff, And sweat with an Imagination's weight.”

“Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.”

Mind Winning Loses Cities Support Team Football Division Supporter Cricket Arsenal Football Team Norwich

Author:Stephen Fry

“I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.”

Helping India Cricket Tournaments Charitable Cricketers Dhoni Singh

Author:Mahendra Singh Dhoni

“I don't like discussing cricket off the field.”

Fields Cricket Discussing

Author:Mahendra Singh Dhoni

“Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.”

Two India Two Things Cricket

Author:Preity Zinta

“I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.”

I Can Done Careers Moved Guarantees Cricket Bollywood

Author:Preity Zinta

“They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.”

Earth Funny America Games Language Strong Humorous Baseball Accents Cricket National Language

Book:How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained

Source: How to scrape skies: the United States explored, rediscovered and explained

“The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.”

Long Circles Squares Cricket Port Olympic Games Oval Cricket Funny

Author:Trevor Bailey

“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.”

People Half Morning Saws Work Out Cricket

Author:Ian Botham

“I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.”

Kind Guy Sports Involved Cricket Athletics Rugby

Author:Jai Courtney

“Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.”

Endless Cricket Grind

Author:Ted Dexter

“In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.”

Song Nature Silence Sweet Solitude Bird Woods Noise Charm Bees Cricket

Book:The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems

Source: The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems

“I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized.”

Thinking Knows Kids Grew Grew Up Cricket Australian

Author:Rachel Griffiths

“When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.”

Today Focus Talent Months Periods Down And Series International Strikes Broads Pool Cricket

Author:Sunil Gavaskar