Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

This touring exhibition will enable many more Australian cricket lovers, right across the country, to see the urn and learn more about its long and fascinating history.

One-day cricket is an exhibition. Test cricket is an examination.

Those who run cricket in this country, especially at the domestic level, are for the most part a self-serving, pusillanimous and self-important bunch of myopic dinosaurs unable to take any but the shortest-term view of everything.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.