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

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

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

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

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.

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

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