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We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
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.
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.
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.