In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously [on cricket]

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

My mother-in-law, she never watched cricket in her life and she's watching it. It's because we're good at it again. It's come back. Cricket's come back to England.

We think it's an important work showing some of the loopholes in the current wetlands law.

We think the rule of law should govern here. If there's a dispute, then let's sit down and work it out. But to say, 'we're just going to steal it in the middle of the night,' is not right.