The cricket-field. By J. Pycroft1862 |
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Amy Herbert Artillery Ground Author of Amy bail batsman Beagley beat Beauclerk Beldham bowler's hand Caldecourt catch Clarke Club-ball crease Dartford Brent David Harris delivery E. H. Budd Eleven England fast bowling Fennex field fieldsman fingers first-rate forward play full bat Fuller Pilch game of Cricket gentlemen ground habit half-volley Hambledon Club Hampshire hitter inches judge Kent Lambert leg-balls leg-hitting leg-stump length balls Lillywhite long hop long-stop Lord Frederick Lord Frederick Beauclerk Lord's match never Noah Mann Nottingham Off-hits Old Nyren old players once pace Parr Pilch pitch play back play forward practise quick right foot rise runner score shooter side sight slow ball slow bowling spin stand stop straight bat straight play stump style Surrey throw Tom Walker twist umpire underhand bowling Walker Ward White Conduit Fields wicket wicket-keeper Wisden wrist Wykehamist yards
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Page 46 - I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a schoolboy : an expedition against bargemen, or a match at cricket, may be very pretty things to recollect ; but, thank my stars, I can remember things that are very near as pretty.
Page 3 - Will you not, when you have me, throw stocks at my head, and cry, ' Would my eyes had been beaten out of my head with a cricket-ball the day before I saw thee...
Page 77 - He would bring it from under his arm by a twist, and nearly as high as his arm-pit, and with this action push it, as it were, from him. How it was that the balls acquired the velocity they did by this mode of delivery, I never could comprehend.
Page 10 - ... they sometimes ride out on horseback, and hunt with the Lord Mayor's pack of dogs, when the common hunt goes out. The lower classes divert themselves at football, wrestling, cudgels, ninepins, shovelboard,* cricket...
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Page 77 - mode of delivering the ball was very singular. He would bring it from under the arm by a twist, and nearly as high as his armpit, and with this action push it, as it were, from him.
Page 7 - Bowling. —At Marebone and Putney he may see several persons of quality bowling two or three times a week all the summer...