The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
Neville Cardus quote His immense power is lightened by a rhythm which has in it as little obvious propulsion as a movement of music by Mozart.
Neville Cardus quote We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville Cardus quote 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 quote In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously [on cricket]
Neville Cardus quote The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.
Neville Cardus quote A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.
Neville Cardus quote He orchestrated the folk music of cricket [W G Grace]
Neville Cardus quote Biography
British journalist and writer