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"... your batsmen may be jokers and your fielders clown, and your captain can be any and everyone, but your fast bowlers are diamonds and forever responsible for glory."

Billy likes to tell people that the good thing about being old is that you don’t have to worry about dying young.

"Think before you drink."

"If she gives me heart, I'll break it. My lie is too great to build a love upon."

"Everyone's honest till they're caught in a lie."

"It's not victory that makes a man. It's his defeats."

"If I drink, Overlook wins. Even though it burned to the ground when the boiler exploded, it wins. If I don't drink, I go crazy."

"Your mind was a blackboard. Booze was the eraser."

"A curse of birth, I suppose. I am a product of my upbringing. I cheer for the underdog." Although a hyperbole, he is quite similar to me.

"If you're not vomiting during the workout, you are not trying."

"Now, each surface was given the barber's equivalent of a No. 1, including scalp massages with stiff brooms, before mowers embarked on final cut-throat shaves." Wow!

"Cricket mimics life, possibly more so than any other sport."

No better time than this to start reading the cricket Bhagwad Gita

Wild West at its very best!

"India very rarely lose a Test series at home, possibly because they have such exceptionally constructive working relationships with the groundsmen at their home venues." Such double standards AB... As if the Kingsmead pitch is always dry and dusty for us!

"Respect is only ever earned by being a fighter."

"Since childhood, loneliness had been her closest companion."

Nostalgia at its very best!

"If the words can't create a prophetic tunnel connecting them to the reader, then the whole thing no longer functions as a poem. " Slowly... slowly... I am becoming a huge fan of Murakami.

It's as Tolstoy said: happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

"When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in."

"I stared at my thickening beard stubble. My eyes looked haunted. I was stranger to myself." Quite relatable.

The protagonist has gone crazy.

Action does not stop at all.

"Kumble extracted more from himself more than what he did from pitches."

"Life moves on. We cannot force those who follow to remember us."

Talking about unreal expectations - 'Sehwag, bat two days to save this Test!' , 'Manmohan Singh, erect statutes of yourself in every city!' , 'Fardeen Khan, act!' Hilarious!

"Cricket is our punching bag and our calming pillow."

"What is cricket about? Warney and me screaming at each other like two drunks, or quietly learning from a guy like Rahul Dravid?"

"If you can wear (Michael) Vaughan down you really must be doing something wrong." Dear Peter Moore - what had you done!