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Cricket

Chapter 4: ILLUSTRATIONS.
By A. G. Steel
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A comprehensive handbook that pairs a historical survey of the game with detailed, practical instruction: chapters outline its development and then provide technical guidance on batting, bowling, fielding, captaincy, and umpiring, plus methods for scoring and training young players. It surveys different competitive contexts — county and border matches, university fixtures, single-wicket contests, the Gentlemen and Players divide, and touring Australian sides — and offers tactical discussion, organizational advice for captains and officials, and illustrative plates and photographs to clarify technique and practice.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

(Engraved by J. D. Cooper and R. B. Lodge, after Drawings by Lucien Davis, and Photographs by G. Mitchell, Martin & Tyler, and Medrington & Co.)

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.

  ARTIST  
Caught and Bowled Lucien Davis Frontispiece
A Young Cricketer From a picture ascribed to Gainsborough, belonging to the M.C.C. To face p. 1
Cricket After Hayman’s picture, belonging to M.C.C. ″ 12
Royal Academy Club in Marylebone Fields  ″ ″ ″ 28
Caught at the Wicket Lucien Davis ″ 68
Run Out  ″ ″ 198
A. E. Stoddart From a photograph ″ 212
Country Cricket (Mitcham) Lucien Davis ″ 280
M.C.C. and Ground v. Australians, Lord’s, May 22, 1884  ″ ″ 308
The Critics  ″ ″ 324
The Interval  ″ ″ 348
Kennington Oval, 1854   ″ 366
Our National Game Lucien Davis ″ 376

ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT.

  ARTIST PAGE
Vignette on Title-page Lucien Davis  
‘Miss Wicket’ From an old print, 1770 7
The Champion Lucien Davis 34
W. G. Grace ready to receive the ball  ″ 44
Forward Play From a photograph 50
‘Half-cock,’ or over the crease play  ″ 52
‘Back-play’ to a bumping ball  ″ 55
Gunn Cutting  ″ 59
Shrewsbury Cutting  ″ 60
Old-fashioned Sweep to Leg (Gunn)  ″ 62
Square-leg Hit (W. G. Grace)  ″ 64
‘The Glide’ (W. G. Grace)  ″ 66
Forcing Stroke off the legs  ″ 68
Off Drive  ″ 70
Running out to Drive (Shrewsbury)  ″ 77
Gunn playing Forward  ″ 93
‘The Demon Bowler’ Lucien Davis 94
The Leg-break Diagram   110
Position of Field if Bowling on Leg side   111
The Leg-break From a photograph 113
Likely Balls; and what may become of them if not correctly played   114
The Off Break From a photograph 116
‘Off Breaks’   117
Slow Ball   123
Fast Ball   123
A Hot Return From a photograph 127
A Pokey Batsman dealing with a high-dropping full-pitch  ″ 139
Low Delivery  ″ 167
Doubtful Delivery  ″ 174
The Field for a Fast Right-arm Bowler   176
The Field for a Fast Left-arm Bowler   177
Going in Lucien Davis 187
Eton v. Harrow  ″ 208
At Wicket after Bowling From a photograph 214
‘Guard, please, Umpire’ Lucien Davis 217
A Clear Case From a photograph 224
‘You must go, Jack’  ″ 229
Stumped Lucien Davis 243
‘Saving the Four’  ″ 245
Backing up  ″ 247
‘Overtaking and Picking up’ From a photograph 249
The Right Way to Catch  ″ 250
The Wrong Way to Catch  ″ 251
Wicket-keeper—Sherwin in position  ″ 252
Wicket-keeper—another position  ″ 254
Hit to Square-leg Lucien Davis 256
Point From a photograph 261
Short-slip  ″ 264
The Wrong Position for Stopping the Ball  ″ 273
An Anxious Moment Lucien Davis 279
A Six-year Old From a photograph 375
Drawing away from the Wicket Lucien Davis 379