RMS Strathaird - Notable Passengers - Australian Cricket Team

Famous quotes containing the words australian, cricket and/or team:

“Each Australian is a Ulysses.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)

“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“I doubt if men ever made a trade of heroism. In the days of Achilles, even, they delighted in big barns, and perchance in pressed hay, and he who possessed the most valuable team was the best fellow.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)