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.

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.

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

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

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

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

It is far more than a game, this cricket.