Kindle Notes & Highlights
Ring Lardner himself, at the start of his wonderful short story of sport and journalism ‘Harmony’:
Frenchman Cesar de Saussure who wrote home after witnessing a match in 1728: ‘They go into a large open field, and knock a small ball about with a piece of wood. I will not attempt to describe this game to you, it is too complicated.’
Cricket!
Rev James Pycroft in The Cricket
multiplied,
Find the number of ODI 75-79 & 79-83
Seldom has a single match had such reverberations as India’s upset of the West Indies in the final of the 1983
as John Lord puts it in The Maharajahs.
Lippman once said: ‘When all think alike, none are
Buying memoirs by a modern sportsman is like making a donation to their testimonial fund and being given a free book as a receipt, not so much to read, but to symbolise your allegiance.
There is the amused self-mockery, the precise observation, the authenticating detail: he offers a date, the number of boys and the appearance of his interlocutor, whose age is cautiously approximated.
India was a growth economy: it inhaled cricket and exhaled money.
Rhodes likes to quote Colin Bland, who once philosophised that good fielders were ‘part of the attack’.
In Adam Gilchrist’s words: ‘Few things lift a fielding team like a direct-hit run-out or even just a good throw that hits the stumps.
