Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.
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. - Neville Cardus
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.
- Neville Cardus
It is far more than a game, this cricket. - Neville Cardus
It is far more than a game, this cricket.
Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lova… - Neville Cardus
Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lova…
A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness. - Neville Cardus
A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. - Neville Cardus
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.
Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them. - Neville Cardus
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself. - Neville Cardus
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
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 … - Neville Cardus
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 …
Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'. - Neville Cardus
Like the British constitution, cricket was not made: it has 'grown'.
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