Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.
It is far more than a game, this cricket. - Neville Cardus
It is far more than a game, this cricket.
- 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
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.
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…
Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them. - 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. - 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.
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.
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.
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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