It is far more than a game, this cricket.

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

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 elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

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.

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