Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!

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

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

There's something about blue eyes.

The kind of blue that startles you every time they're lifted in your direction. The kind of blue that makes you ache for them to look at you again. Not the blue green or blue gray, the blue that's just blue.

Cricket has those eyes.

It's probably the most nerve-racking end to a test match I've played in ... (maybe) any game of cricket I've ever played - tied World Cup semi-finals included.

I'm baffled by the international standard of cricket