Neville Cardus Quotes

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

It is far more than a game, this cricket.

Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.