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The closest thing I`ve got to baseball is playing rounders at school or my brothers using me as a cricket stump and throwing cricket balls at me!

- Rachel Griffiths

(13th over: Australia 28-1 (Hayden 6, Ponting 1) Harmison continues to probe outside off-stump at around 85mph, Hayden continues to leave.) In my capacity as a professional Software Engineer, I can confirm that constantly refreshing a webpage doesn`t hurt your computer, ... That said, if it drastically affects network bandwidth and it`s tracked back to your PC your IT administrator might get a bit narked.

- Stephen Smith

I reckon he`s fantastic. The only thing he needs to do is learn to bowl good length. He`s not bowling his yorker enough. The way I understand is that they`re being coached to concentrate on the top of the off stump.

- Brett Lee

Words are not enough. It is time for rich-country governments to stump up or shut up.

- Mark Curtis

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

- Murray Walker

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

- Ahmed Bedier

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

- Alexei Pushkov

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you`re bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven`t a chance.

- William S. Gilbert