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.

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

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.

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

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.