Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
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.
It is far more than a game, this cricket.
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.