The Cricket Field: Or, the History and Science of the Game of Cricket

The amusing part is, that this cry of “What rubbish!” has been going on for years, and still the same error prevails. Experience is not like anything hereditary: the generations...

Every player is conscious of one particular length that puzzles him,--of one point between himself and the bowler, in which he would rather that the ball should not pitch. “Ther...

Commence, as always, from _fig. 1._; stand close up to your wicket; weight on pivot-foot; balance-foot ready to come over as required. This is the only position from which you c...

Twelve of the principal wicket-keepers of the last fifty years were all efficient Batsmen; namely, Hammond, Searle, Box, Wenman, Dorrington, C. Brown, Chatterton, Lockyer, with...

6. Besides trying every variety of length, vary your pace to deceive the batsman in timing his play; and practise the same action so as not to betray the change of pace. Also, t...

Peter Heward, an excellent wicket-keeper of Leicester,--of the same day as Henry Davis, one of the finest and most graceful hitters ever seen, as Dakin, or any midland player wi...

1. Singles lost from hits about 10 2. Ones instead of twos, by not making the former run quickly and turning for a second, but over-running ground and stopping ” 4 3. Runs that...

In those days, foot races were very common. Lord Frederick and Mr. Budd were first-rate runners, and bets were freely laid. So, one day, old Fennex laid a trap for the gentlemen...

Cricket, we have shown, was originally classed among the games of the lower orders; so we find the yeomen infinitely superior to the gentlemen even before cricket had become by...

“I told you, sir,” said Beldham, “that in my early days all bowling was what we called fast, or at least a moderate pace. The first lobbing slow bowler I ever saw was Tom Walker...

“This is a game for three players at least, who are furnished with clubs. They cut out two holes, each about a foot in diameter and seven inches in depth, and twenty-six feet ap...

Swaffham, in Norfolk, is now mentioned for the first time. But Norfolk lies out of the usual road, and is a county which, as Mr. Dickens said of Golden Square, before it was the...

Conceit in a cricketer, as in other things, is a bar to all improvement--the vain-glorious is always thinking of the lookers-on, instead of the game, and generally is condemned...

Now for Generalship: A manager had better not be a bowler, least of all a slow bowler, for he wants some impartial observer to tell him when to go on and when to change,--a mode...

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