#cricket

At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and England; past and present inter-penetrate. The best days an angler spends upon his river – the river which is Heraclitus’ river, which is never the same as the angler is never the same, yet is the same always – are those he recollects in tranquillity, as wintry weather lashes the land without, and he, snug and warm, ties new patterns of dry-fly, and remembers the leaf-dapple upon clear water and the play of light and the eternal dance of ranunculus in the chalk-stream. A cricket match between two riotously inexpert village Second XIs is no less an instance of timeless, of time caught in ritual within an emerald Arcadia, than is a Test at Lord’s, and we who love the greatest of games know that we do indeed catch a fleeting glimpse of a spectral twelfth man on every pitch, for in each re-enactment of the mystery there is the cumulation of all that has gone before and shall come after. Et ego in Arcadia. ↗

— G.M.W. Wemyss

#arcadia #country-life #countryside #cricket #flyfishing

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#buildings #cricket #earth #flat #ground

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one. ↗

— Harold Larwood

#bowled #bowling #cricket #dark #down

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#amateur #british #brought #certainly #cricket

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin. ↗

— Desmond Llewelyn

#almost #anybody #australia #back #bin

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#aspect #cricket #family #i #i think

Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer. ↗

— Tony Greig

#different #different things #ever #how #i

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches. ↗

— Paul Hogan

#always #beginning #bit #cricket #drink

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#always #being #cricket #different #enter

But eventually it is a game of cricket. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#eventually #game