# Cricket (Steel, Lyttelton)

The Badminton Library OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES EDITED BY
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT, K.G. ASSISTED BY ALFRED E. T. WATSON
CRICKET
PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON
CAUGHT AND BOWLED
CRICKET
BY
A. G. STEEL
AND THE
HON. R. H. LYTTELTON
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY
A. LANG, W. G. GRACE, R. A. H. MITCHELL, AND F. GALE
WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS AFTER LUCIEN DAVIS
AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1888
All rights reserved
DEDICATION
TO
H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES.
Badminton: June, 1888.
Having received permission to dedicate these volumes, the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, I do so feeling that I am dedicating them to one of the best and keenest sportsmen of our time. I can say, from personal observation, that there is no man who can extricate himself from a bustling and pushing crowd of horsemen, when a fox breaks covert, more dexterously and quickly than His Royal Highness; and that when hounds run hard over a big country, no man can take a line of his own and live with them better. Also, when the wind has been blowing hard, often have I seen His Royal Highness knocking over driven grouse and partridges and high-rocketing pheasants in first-rate ​workmanlike style. He is held to be a good yachtsman, and as Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron is looked up to by those who love that pleasant and exhilarating pastime. His encouragement of racing is well known, and his attendance at the University, Public School, and other important Matches testifies to his being, like most English gentlemen, fond of all manly sports. I consider it a great privilege to be allowed to dedicate these volumes to so eminent a sportsman as His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and I do so with sincere feelings of respect and esteem and loyal devotion.
BEAUFORT.
PREFACE.
A few lines only are necessary to explain the object with which these volumes are put forth. There is no modern encyclopædia to which the inexperienced man, who seeks guidance in the practice of the various British Sports and Pastimes, can turn for information. Some books there are on Hunting, some on Racing, some on Lawn Tennis, some on Fishing, and so on; but one Library, or succession of volumes, which treats of the Sports and Pastimes indulged in by Englishmen—and women—is wanting. The Badminton Library is offered to supply the want. Of the imperfections which must be found in the execution of such a design we are conscious. Experts often differ. But this we may say, that those who are seeking for knowledge on any of the subjects dealt with will find the results of many years' experience written by men who are in every case adepts at the Sport or Pastime of which they write. It is to ​point the way to success to those who are ignorant of the sciences they aspire to master, and who have no friend to help or coach them, that these volumes are written.
To those who have worked hard to place simply and clearly before the reader that which he will find within, the best thanks of the Editor are due. That it has been no slight labour to supervise all that has been written he must acknowledge; but it has been a labour of love, and very much lightened by the courtesy of the Publisher, by the unflinching, indefatigable assistance of the SubEditor, and by the intelligent and able arrangement of each subject by the various writers, who are so thoroughly masters of the subjects of which they treat. The reward we all hope to reap is that our work may prove useful to this and future generations.
THE EDITOR.
CONTENTS.
       By Andrew Lang.
       By the Hon. R. H. Lyttelton.
       By A. G. Steel.
       By A. G. Steel.
       By A. G. Steel.
       By the Hon. R. H. Lyttelton.
       By F. Gale.
       By Andrew Lang.
       By W. G. Grace.
       By A. G. Steel. ​
       By the Hon. R. H. Lyttelton.
       By the Hon. R. H. Lyttelton.
       By R. A. H. Mitchell.
       By the Hon. R. H. Lyttelton.
       By W. G. Grace.
       By the Hon. R. H. Lyttelton.
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 | After Hayman's picture, belonging to M.C.C. | 28 |
| Caught at the Wicket | Lucien Davis | 70 |
| Run Out | Lucien Davis | 202 |
| Country Cricket (Mitcham) | Lucien Davis | 282 |
| M.C.C. and Ground v. Australians, Lord's, May 22, 1884 | Lucien Davis | 310 |
| The Critics | Lucien Davis | 324 |
| The Interval | Lucien Davis | 344 |
| Our National Game | Lucien Davis | 372 ​ |
| WOODCUTS IN TEXT. ||
| 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 | Lucien Davis | 44 |
| Forward Play | From a photograph | 50 |
| 'Half-cock,' or over the crease play | From a photograph | 52 |
| 'Back-play' to a bumping ball | From a photograph | 54 |
| Gunn Cutting | From a photograph | 61 |
| Shrewsbury Cutting | From a photograph | 62 |
| Old-fashioned Sweep to Leg (Gunn) | From a photograph | 64 |
| Square-leg Hit (W. G. Grace | From a photograph | 66 |
| 'The Glide' (W. G. Grace) | From a photograph | 68 |
| Forcing Stroke off the legs | From a photograph | 70 |
| Off Drive | From a photograph | 72 |
| Running out to Drive (Shrewsbury) | From a photograph | 79 |
| Gun playing Forward | From a photograph | 95 |
| 'The Demon Bowler' | Lucien Davis | 96 |
| The leg-break Diagram | | 114 |
| Position of Field if Bowling on Leg side | | 115 |
| The Leg-break | From a photograph | 117 |
| Likely Balls; and what may become of them if not correctly played | | 118 |
| The Off Break | From a photograph | 120 |
| 'Off Breaks' | | 121 |
| Slow Ball | | 127 |
| Fast Ball | | 127 |
| A Hot Return | From a photograph | 131 ​ |
| A Pokey Batsman dealing with a high-dropping full pitch | From a photograph | 143 |
| Low Delivery | From a photograph | 171 |
| Doubtful Delivery | From a photograph | 178 |
| The Field for a fast Right-arm Bowler | | 180 |
| The Field for a fast Left-arm Bowler | | 181 |
| Going in | Lucien Davis | 191 |
| Eton v Harrow | Lucien Davis | 210 |
| At wicket after Bowling | From a photograph | 216 |
| 'Guard, please, Umpire' | Lucien Davis | 218 |
| A Clear Case | From a photograph | 225 |
| 'You must go, Jack' | From a photograph | 231 |
| Stumped | Lucien Davis | 245 |
| 'Saving the Four' | Lucien Davis | 247 |
| Backing up | Lucien Davis | 249 |
| 'Overtaking and Picking up' | From a photograph | 251 |
| The Right way to Catch | From a photograph | 252 |
| The Wrong way to catch | From a photograph | 253 |
| Wicket-keeper—Sherwin in position | From a photograph | 254 |
| Wicket-keeper—Another position | From a photograph | 256 |
| Hit to Square-Leg | Lucien Davis | 258 |
| Point | From a photograph | 263 |
| Short-slip | From a photograph | 266 |
| The Wrong Position for Stopping the Ball | From a photograph | 275 |
| An Anxious Moment | Lucien Davis | 281 |
| A Six-year old | From a photograph | 370 |
| Drawing away from the Wicket | Lucien Davis | 374 |
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