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.
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