e two - an ability to sight the ball early and then to catch it, whether it comes from a delivery, a hit, or a throw-in.
Alan Knott
Book: Stumpers's View
Charisma seems to me a limited asset to a captain.
Mike Brearley
Book: The Art of Captaincy
All cricketers are cricketers, none the less so for not being 'first-class, which is no more than a statistical distinction.
John Arlott
Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.
Sir Donald Bradman
Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline.
I. A. R. Peebles
Frequently the assertion is made that wicket keepers are born and not made. Yet anyone with average ball sense can make a fair job of it if he is prepared to work hard.
Alan Knott
Book: Stumpers's View
Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in -- luck plays an important part.
W.G. Grace
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
Sir Neville Cardus
The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.
W. G. Grace
No professional drunkard has ever made a great professional cricketer, nor ever will.
Quid
Book: Jerks in from Short Leg
Don't practise on opponent's ground before match begins. This can only give them confidence.
Sir J. M. Barrie
Book: Allahakbarries C.C
Coaching which is good, simply sharpens up a player, as wide travel and experience will.
A.E. Knight
Book: The Complete Cricketer
Coaching is often very necessary, but great care mjust be taken not to curb a young player's natural shots, which are often his chief scoring strokes.
Leslie Ames
Book: Close of Play
I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.
W.G. Grace
Book: Cricket
In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
I.A.R. Peebles
Book: Talking of Cricket
Of the many facets presented by the game of cricket, most men will agree that batting is the one most distinctly enjoyable and instinctinvely delightful.
A.E. Knight
Book: The Complete Cricketer
It is as well for us to remember when we are watching the best batsmen that, however easy it may all look, they do not achieve their success without toil and sweat, and that there are times even with the greatest when they must seem to themselves, as we humble performers so frequently seem to ourselves, to be batting with a broomstick, with a barn door for a wicket.
E.W. Swanton
Book: Denis Compton: A Cricket Sketch
Alan Knott
Book: Stumpers's View
Charisma seems to me a limited asset to a captain.
Mike Brearley
Book: The Art of Captaincy
All cricketers are cricketers, none the less so for not being 'first-class, which is no more than a statistical distinction.
John Arlott
Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.
Sir Donald Bradman
Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline.
I. A. R. Peebles
Frequently the assertion is made that wicket keepers are born and not made. Yet anyone with average ball sense can make a fair job of it if he is prepared to work hard.
Alan Knott
Book: Stumpers's View
Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in -- luck plays an important part.
W.G. Grace
A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.
Sir Neville Cardus
The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.
W. G. Grace
No professional drunkard has ever made a great professional cricketer, nor ever will.
Quid
Book: Jerks in from Short Leg
Don't practise on opponent's ground before match begins. This can only give them confidence.
Sir J. M. Barrie
Book: Allahakbarries C.C
Coaching which is good, simply sharpens up a player, as wide travel and experience will.
A.E. Knight
Book: The Complete Cricketer
Coaching is often very necessary, but great care mjust be taken not to curb a young player's natural shots, which are often his chief scoring strokes.
Leslie Ames
Book: Close of Play
I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.
W.G. Grace
Book: Cricket
In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
I.A.R. Peebles
Book: Talking of Cricket
Of the many facets presented by the game of cricket, most men will agree that batting is the one most distinctly enjoyable and instinctinvely delightful.
A.E. Knight
Book: The Complete Cricketer
It is as well for us to remember when we are watching the best batsmen that, however easy it may all look, they do not achieve their success without toil and sweat, and that there are times even with the greatest when they must seem to themselves, as we humble performers so frequently seem to ourselves, to be batting with a broomstick, with a barn door for a wicket.
E.W. Swanton
Book: Denis Compton: A Cricket Sketch
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