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• Cricket can be a bridge and a glue… Cricket for peace is my mission.

  Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

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• To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

  Mary Russell Mitford

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• Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

  Neville Cardus

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• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  Vikas Swarup

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• Personally, I have always looked upon cricket as organized loafing.

  William Temple

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• In India, kids need someone to look up to. They’ve got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.

  Ian Rush

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• One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I’d be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun – especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

  Hugh Jackman

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• I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.

  Usain Bolt

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• Cricket to us was more than play, it was a worship in the summer sun.

  Edmund Blunden

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• 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.

  Paul Hogan

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• Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

  George Mikes

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• Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

  Frank Woolley

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• I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

  Rachel Griffiths

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• Cricket the world over, I don’t think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.

  Tony Greig

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• Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.

  Ted Dexter

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

  Ted Dexter

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• A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

  Richie Benaud

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• Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

  Steve Waugh

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• Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

  Robin Williams

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• I’ve been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

  Garth Brooks

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  Tags in Self, Cricket, Practice