The Isle of Man cricket team is the team that represents the Crown dependency of the Isle of Man in international cricket matches. They became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council in 2004.
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“She carries in the dishes,
And lays them in a row.
To an isle in the water
With her would I go.”
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The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
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