Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English athlete Harold Larwood.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Harold Larwood, MBE was a professional cricketer for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team between 1924 and 1938. A right-arm fast bowler who combined unusual speed with great accuracy, he was considered by many commentators to be the finest and the fastest fast bowler of his generation and one of the fastest bowlers of all time. He was the main exponent of the bowling style known as "bodyline", the use of which during the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) tour of Australia in 1932–33 caused a furore that brought about a premature and acrimonious end to his international career.
I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.
In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.
Cricket was my reason for living.
Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf