England Lions Cricket Team
The England Lions (formerly England A) cricket team is England and Wales's "second-tier", below the full England cricket team. It is largely intended as a way for promising young cricketers to gain experience of playing international cricket.
Read more about England Lions Cricket Team: England B and England A, England Lions, Recent Call-ups, Season-by-season Results Summary
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“What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)
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—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“Once a word is spoken, a team of four horse cannot retake it.”
—Chinese proverb.