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

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

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

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

- Neville Cardus

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

- 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 …

- Neville Cardus