Status Updates From "W.G." Cricketing Reminisce...

'I watch this game, my boy.'

'In the arrangement of the field, the bowler, if he has a mind of his own, and any judgment at all, will be allowed to place his fieldsmen as he chooses.'

'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.'

'It is an acknowledged fact that two or three men almost invariably do everything in most matches.'

'It ought, in my opinion, to be the desire of every cricketer to play the game in a chivalrous spirit, irrespective of the consequence.'

'The batting of the teams we met in Canada did not attain a high standard—they seemed incapable of facing our bowlers, and fell victims to easy balls, which ought to have been severely punished—but nothing else could perhaps be expected. It must be said, however, that we met some excellent bowling, and that the fielding of the Canadians was very creditable.'

'I take up my pen with reluctance, for writing is not a recreation I care for. Nature, training, temperament, and predilection combine to make me prefer the open air, and even now I would sooner enter on a long day's leather-hunting than write a single chapter of reminiscences. But the chapters must be written. I have promised, and must fulfil that promise.'