World Record Holders
The Cricket Club held the world record for the world's longest cricket marathon. Previously 26 hours and 13 minutes and held by a French team, the record was broken by over an hour on 24 and 25 June 2006. Cornwall Cricket Club, Auckland, New Zealand now hold the record at 100 hours.
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—R.C. Sherriff (1896–1975)
“One foot in each great ocean
Is a record stride or stretch.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep, for the dead I loved so well,
For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and
lands—and this for his dear sake,
Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul,
There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.”
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