Cricketing

But in an era in which cricketers make absurd claims (Monty Panesar is the best left-arm spinner in English cricketing history according to Kevin Pietersen) Frindall's sense of perspective is more vital than ever. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Brian Lara has often been described as a cricketing genius. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This fresh minty morning, with its lackadaisical "cricketing," counterbalances so much caffeine, suggesting a new rhythm. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I asked him if he was sure it wasn't "cricketing" state of health. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

The new product will include in-depth sports news, reviews, interviews, polls, betting odds, extended horse racing coverage, plus columns by expert commentators such as cricketing great Neil McKenzie and former Bok coach Jake White. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After all what enhances the appreciation of the great game of cricket more than that newly introduced "break activity" when a pretty lass is culled from the crowd, based on her "cricketing" acumen, as part of the competition wherein a cricket-loving member of the audience will get a chance to be in a Bollywood item number. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Under the test, which was introduced by the Howard government, prospective Australian citizens are quizzed on numerous topics relating to Australian culture such as cricketing great Don Bradman, legendary racehorse Phar Lap and Simpson's donkey. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But for the Indian cricketing authorities to then fail to exploit that potential by failing to get tickets to fans is unpardonable, particularly because it happened for such ludicrous reasons: the wrong people have been distributing the tickets, too many have been given away for free, and no one thought through what impact that tiny supply might have on demand. ❋ Richard Lord (2011)

If India's cricketing authorities keep treating them like this, sooner or later their patience is going to run out. ❋ Richard Lord (2011)

The acid test in the battle for global cricketing supremacy, then, will come in a year's time when England returns to play Tests, their favorite format, in India, their least favorite place to play them. ❋ Richard Lord (2011)

There are certain vital tipping points in the history of cricketing nations. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the studio David Gower, Mike Atherton and Ian Botham lurked around an unusually small cardboard coffee table looking oddly bleached-out, a sense of ghostliness accentuated by the ever-present World Cup logo with its backdrop of faceless, baying cartoon figures set against a glaring firestorm of a sky, like a Soviet-era depiction of some future cricketing apocalypse. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In view of this it is obvious something should be done to shorten play and to make the game more attractive for the cricketing public. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Our grandfather, Tom Compson Trumble (1898 – 1970), known to the Peter Trumbles as “Pa,” and to the Colin Trumbles as “Cum-pa,” was the youngest of the six children of John William Trumble, the cricketing legend and solicitor of note, and his wife Susan (née Davies). ❋ Unknown (2009)

But for the dwindling number of Australians who still make an issue of that, it must be even more irritating to discover that his first cricketing experiences came in the early 1980s in Caulfield, a suburb of Melbourne where, according to Wisden, his father, who works in insurance, had taken the family "in search of a less politically charged environment". ❋ Unknown (2011)

England's Twenty20 innovation was instead the strangling wide full toss, no doubt still being mimicked in the world's cricketing favelas by joyful barefoot boys dreaming of the perfect slower ball bouncer. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Did you see the girl in [mythology] [class]? she was cricketing the entire class period. [i wonder] what she was thinking about. ❋ Bam 9 (2010)

I almost [lost] my [senses] when he [started] cricketing! ❋ Kit79 (2010)

dude 1: My wife [cheated on] me with like six other men. :( dude 2: That's [just not] [cricket man]! :S ❋ Bad Wolf Chesslover (2007)

"I asked him where things stand on [the contract]. All I heard was.... ([crickets])." "She promised to give me a [progress report] last week. Since then --- *crickets* " ❋ WmB (2013)

Not those [Aussie] [cunts] again! ❋ Michael Atherton (2003)

[Crickets] [chrip] all day , as soon you walk by them . they seem to shut up. Sometime [crickets] need to be ignore because they need attention In case you dont know what it mean, you a [hating ass bitch] ❋ Shaneika Marie (2020)

❋ Anonymous (2003)

So they had a strip of ground about twelve feet wide and [forty] long - one [wicket] was a trash can, the other was a chair. Jivaji gets the ball and wings it at the wicket, blowing the trash can to [tiny little] bits. Cricket: a serious game. ❋ Chester Bogus (2007)

[I asked] [Sharon] why she was late for work, all I got was crickets, [ugh]! ❋ Peavette (2015)

[Fancy] [a game] of cricket? ❋ Serminigo (2006)