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

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

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

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

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

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.

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