Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.