Margaret Hughes: Cricket

Margaret Hughes was British actress. Explore interesting quotes on cricket.

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

John Arlott, review of The Long Hop; quoted in Times obituary http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article516103.ece <br class="br">About

“A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.”

Margaret Hughes

All On A Summer's Day (1953).

“As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?”

Margaret Hughes

The Long Hop (1955).

“The work of an enthusiast who has watched and enjoyed cricket with an eye for detail and for character, for adventure and the human reflection beyond the ropes. It will, I fancy, be read with the same pleasure as it was written.”

Margaret Hughes

John Arlott, review of All On A Summer's Day; quoted in Times obituary http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article516103.ece <br class="br">About