His immense power is lightened by a rhythm which has in it as little obvious propulsion as a movement of music by Mozart. |
In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously [on cricket] |
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader. |
The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses. |
The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality. |
There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. |
We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination. |