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

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

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

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

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

It is far more than a game, this cricket.

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.