The cricket-bat and how to use it, by an old cricketer1861 |
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ADMIRAL ROUS ancient game arm bowling bails ball is pitched barristers bat held bat upright batsman batsman's wicket bounds bowler's hands bowler's wicket bowling stump bowling-crease call No Ball catapulta catch club-ball CORNHILL CRICKET-BAT cricket-field cricket-match crosses the play danger deliver the ball delivery double wicket duty fast bowling Felix field fieldsmen game of cricket ground Hambledon Club hit the wicket hits the ball hold the bat Horse Racing inches jerk KENT Laws of Cricket leaping ball LEG BEFORE WICKET leg hit length ball little wide long hops LONG-FIELD manly mid-wicket miss the ball never Newmarket Nyren says opposite wicket PATERNOSTER ROW pitch the ball players popping-crease position practice round-arm bowling rule score SCORING-SHEET short-slip side skill slow bowling stand stop the ball straight balls striker style of bowling swift bowling throwing the ball Treatise twenty-two wicket-keeper Wide Ball YOUNG BOWLERS young cricketer
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Page 23 - TWAS in the prime of summer time, An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school : There were some that ran and some that leapt, Like troutlets in a pool. Away they sped with gamesome minds, And souls untouched by sin; To a level mead they came, and there They drave the wickets in : Pleasantly shone the setting sun Over the...
Page 76 - Crease must be in a line with the stumps; six feet eight inches in length; the Stumps in the centre, with a return crease at each end towards the Bowler, at right angles. 5. The Popping Crease must be four feet from the wicket, and parallel to it; unlimited in length, but not shorter than the Bowling Crease.
Page 80 - After the ball shall have been finally settled in the wicketkeeper's or bowler's hand, it shall be considered dead; but when the Bowler is about to deliver the ball, if the Striker at his wicket go outside the popping crease before such actual delivery, the said Bowler may put him out, unless (with reference to the 21st law) his bat in hand, or some part of his person, be within the popping crease.
Page 79 - Or, if in striking, or at any other time while the ball shall be in play, both his feet shall be over the popping crease, and his wicket put down, except his bat be grounded within it. 18. Or, if in striking at the ball he hit down his wicket.
Page 54 - Ye fieldsmen, look sharp, lest your pains ye beguile, Move close, like an army, in rank and in file; When the ball is returned, back it sure, for I trow Whole states have been ruined by one over-throw.
Page 95 - When the striker shall hit the ball, one of his feet must be on the ground, and behind the popping crease, otherwise the umpire shall call
Page 36 - The ball must be bowled. If thrown or jerked, or if the Bowler in the actual delivery of the ball, or in the action immediately preceding the delivery, shall raise his hand or arm above his shoulder, the Umpire shall call
Page 79 - Or, if in running the wicket be struck down by a throw, or by the hand or arm (with ball in hand), before his bat (in hand) or some part of his person be grounded over the popping crease.
Page 78 - no ball" or a "wide ball," the striker shall be allowed as many runs as he can get, and he shall not be put out except by running out. In the event of no run being obtained by any other means, then one run shall be added to the score of " no balls" or "wide balls," as the case may be. All runs obtained for "wide balls