Crossing the Line Quotes

“counter to the game’s insularity; the subsequent reform became, I suspect, the basis for reaction against any sense of cricket’s distinctiveness and institutional significance, an indifference to its past, a neglect of its spirit, and a desperation to bring it into conformity with other sports”
― Gideon Haigh, Crossing the Line: How Australian Cricket Lost Its Way

“Yet I cannot deny that the big cricket I am engaged in watching and writing about feels less precious, less special, less representative and less part of civic life than it used to; more the property of a commercial and bureaucratic elite puffed up with its own importance.”
― Gideon Haigh, Crossing the Line: How Australian Cricket Lost Its Way