The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

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

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

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

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