Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes read more

Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German read more

When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war.

Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!

Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!

It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures

It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be read more

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than read more

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game