“ 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 Actor
“ 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 Actor
“ Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket. Frank Woolley Cricket Player
“ Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own. G. H. Hardy Mathematician
“ If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. G. M. Trevelyan Historian