This was a duty, an obligation, the right thing to do.

Perhaps nothing summed him up better than the last of the several pieces he wrote for Wisden: a tribute to his friend and hero Keith Miller in 2005. the editor muttered apologetically about the feebleness of the fee.  No, he said, he didn't want a fee. This was a duty, an obligation, the right thing to do.

'Obituaries: Benaud, Richard', L. Booth (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2016), 195

I am a sucker for these moments. For a variety of reasons, there are lots in Wisden 2016. I liked this one best.

This was touching, but not a policy found in most textbooks on sporting governance

Tendulkar's 200th test should have been in Cape Town, but politics and money put paid to that: the BCCI wanted to bloody the nose of CSA chief executive Haroon Lorgat, and there were broadcasters to sate. Besides, Tino Best and Darren Sammy were less likely than Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel to embarrass an ageing superstar. Most conveniently, perhaps, the setting allowed Tendulkar's mother to watch him play for the first time. This was touching, but not a policy found in most textbooks on sporting governance.

L. Booth, 'Notes by the Editor', id. (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2014), 22

English cricket contained no more than half a dozen left wingers

Some of the reaction to the prison sentences handed out to Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamar recalled John Arlott's suspicion that English cricket contained no more than half a dozen left wingers.

L. Booth, 'Notes by the editor', id. (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2012), 21