"'This is the stupidest place I have ever visited,' she said. 'I shall never come here again.' The tall man looked at …"

"Now the Englishmen suddenly came to life. Four runs later Harvey received a beast of a ball from Tyson which spat up …"

"As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, fi…"

"I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus."

"Very few reporters in Fleet Street can write on the game with as much observation, sense of scene and character, and …"

"The work of an enthusiast who has watched and enjoyed cricket with an eye for detail and for character, for adventure…"

"The Australia of her book is not merely a setting for cricket but a place of interest, of fun and of new impressions"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."