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“My level of excitement is above cricket proportions”
“What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?”
“When he pursed his lips and dropped a hand into his coat pocket, the last thing Nur expected him to pull out was a cricket ball. "I'd hoped for a disruptor at least," she muttered reprovingly. The ...”
“The only good thing about that decision, Gatt, is that I'll get tea before you.”
“Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.”
“A man's attraction towards a woman is propelled by his innate feelings, while a woman is more sort of involved in a mental game, an impossible preposition of sorts, its like playing soccer in a cri...”
“Yuvraj Singh is one of the best batsmen to watch in world cricket when he's in form. He is ego personified. Yuvraj doesnt just hit the ball, he lets it rebound off his aura.”
“If you took everything Id ever found hot in a girl and piled them into a corner, youd get Cricket Hunt standing in a corner.”
“I followed suit, a little bit nervous, and very unaware of what I was supposed to do. I had that same sensation you get when you were new to a school and had no idea who anyone was in your lunch pe...”
“I started toward the barn and was grateful that the wind was still. About halfway up the drive, my heart began to beat an irregular rhythm as I caught sight of Cricket coming toward me. My breath c...”
“August said you row? she asked. Her voice spilled over me like warm syrup. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the drugging sensation then realized shed asked me a question.Yeah, I answered belatedly. Goo...”
“I made a deal with sharks. I don't swim near them and they don't play cricket.”
“The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.”
“Tendulkar's genius is of an order that the average player cannot comprehend. Dravid's greatness is not just comprehensible, it is reassuring”
“He(Rahul Dravid) is the intelligent man's guide to what a sportsman ought to be - modest, dependable, well-educated, with the gift of grace under pressure and a perspective that is adult. He is the...”
“And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of lif...”
“How did you know? That she wasn't the one for him?" Now he's staring at his hands, slowing rubbing them together. "They just didn't have that . . . natural magic. You know? It never seemed easy." M...”
“Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.”
“Cricket to us was more than play,It was a worship in the summer sun.”
“There's an old joke about a mother watching a column of soldiers pass by. Her son is in the ranks. All those men out of step, she says, except our Fred.”
