# Cricket (Steel, Lyttelton)/Index

INDEX.
Amateur, M. C. C. definition of an, 353
Australians, the, 192, 209, 226, 227, 260, 275, 278, 287; first matches with English teams in Australia, 314; first match in England, 315; character of Gregory's eleven, 315; stimulating effect of rivalry on English cricket, 316; doings of Murdoch's teams in 1880 and 1882, 316, 317; Murdoch's 1884 team, 318; visit of Scott's eleven in 1886, 319; batting averages compared with those of English cricketers, 320; Giffen, 322; bowling averages, 322; Spofforth's qualities, 322; reasons for the excellence of colonial bowling, 323; cup contests, 323; waning popularity of cricket in big colonial towns, 324
Bags, 398
Balls, 199, 398
Barre, tennis-player, 248
Base-ball, 2, 3, 157
Bats, 36, 41, 42, 395-398
Batsmen, past and present, amateur and professional:—
    Abel, 76, 90
    Absalom, C. A., 93
    Aislabie, 28
    Almond, H. H., 32
    Anderson, 365
    Ash, E. P., 40
    Aylward, 24, 384
    Bagge, T. E., 365
    Balfour, Leslie, 32
    Bannerman, Charles, 174, 314, 316-318, 320
    Barlow, R. G., 92, 320, 321, 368
    Barnes, 70, 87, 90, 215, 320, 321, 355, 368
    Bates, 53, 60, 216, 368
    Bathurst, Sir F., 359
    Beagley, 36, 356, 357
    Beauclerk, Lord F., 20, 23, 24, 36, 385
    Beldham, William, 20, 23-25, 35, 36, 384
    Bennett, 384
    Bentley, 36
    Bligh, Hon. Ivo, 32, 174, 243, 275, 324
    Bonnor, G. J., 76, 79, 88, 152, 317
    Bowley, 215
    Box, Tom, 77
    Briggs, 215
    Broadbridge, James, 36, 385
    Brown, Charley, 387
    Brown, G., 385
    Bruce, W., 319
    Bryan, 15
    Buchanan, 353
    Budd, 20, 36, 356, 385
    Buller, 37, 214
    Buller, C. F., 49
    Burbidge, 37 Burgoyne, 70
    Caesar, Julius, 37
    Caffyn, 37, ​
    Carpenter, 37, 39, 40, 55, 66, 363-365, 387
    Chalmers, 32
    Chatterton, 387
    Cheyne, Arthur, 32
    Cooper, 37
    Daft, Richard, 37, 38, 40, 69, 342, 355, 364, 365
    Dakin, 387
    Dalkeith, Lord, 297
    Dearman, James, 386
    Dickens, Major, 32
    Douglas, John, 297
    Drake, 364
    Emmett, 311
    Evans, A. H., 242
    Evans, E., 319
    Felix, 36, 37, 356, 359, 387
    Fennex, William, 25, 36, 384
    Flowers, 90, 368
    Forman, William, 299
    Freemantle, 21
    Fryer, F. E. R., 43
    Fuller Pilch, 17, 25, 26, 36, 43,49, 80, 160, 360, 362, 381, 386
    Giffen, 76, 152, 153, 209,322
    Glassford, 32
    Golden, 384
    Grace, K M., 51, 262, 263, 280
    Grace, G. F., 302
    Grace, W. G., 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 43, 44, 52, 55, 57, 59, 66-68, 75, 83, 87, 88, 92, 100, 104, 121, 152, 168, 187, 200, 214, 215, 256, 264, 265, 269, 280, 314-316, 320, 321, 325, 342, 353, 355, 360, 364, 366-369, 371, 387
    Green, C. E., 310
    Greenwood, Luke, 311
    Grey, Jack, 299
    Griffith, 37
    Grundy, 69, 362, 367
    Gunn, 61, 64, 65, 95, 215, 216, 288, 355
    Guy, Joseph, 37, 362
    Hall, Louis, 71,85, 149,217, 341
    Hankey, 37, 38, 356, 363, 364
    Harris, Lord, 214, 307, 320, 321
    Hay Brown, 32
    Haygarth, 364
    Hayward, 26, 37, 38, 40, 229, 363, 365, 387
    Hearne, George, 90
    Heame, Tom, 37, 69
    Henderson, E,, 22
    Hide, Jesse, 90
    Hills, Thomas, 386
    Hooker, W., 36
    Horan, 174, 316-318
    Hornby, A. N., 43, 187, 315, 391
    Howard, T. C, 385
    Humewood, 385
    Humphrey, Richard, 292
    Humphrey, Tom, 26, 37, 40
    Hunt, Thomas, 357
    Iddison, Roger, 256, 265, 311
    Jones, George, 76
    Jones, J. B., 277
    Jones, S. P., 317
    Jupp, 26
    Kempson, 356
    Key, K. J., 62, 66
    King, R. T., 277,279
    Lambert, W., 25, 36, 384, 385
    Lane, 364
    Lane, C. G., 37 ​
    Law, W. , 276, 277
    Lear, George, 17
    Leslie, C. F. H., 241, 242
    Lillywhite, James, 314
    Lillywhite, V., 362
    Lockyer, Tom, 365
    Lohmann, 90, 217, 368
    Long, R. P., 361
    Lubbock, 37
    Lucas, A. P., 68, 200
    Lucas, F. M., 183, 368
    Lyttelton, Alfred, 53, 94, 368
    Lyttelton, C. G. (now Lord), 37, 40, 66, 366
    Lyttelton, Hon. E., 193
    McDonnell, 76, 152, 209, 264, 265, 318, 319, 360
    Mcllwraith, J., 319
    McKenzie, Jack, 32
    Maitland, 37
    Makinson, 365, 366
    Marsden, 37
    Marshall, R, T., 297
    Marshall, Tom, 32
    Massie, H. H., 76, 152, 317, 318, 320
    Maul, H. C, 57
    Mitchell, R. A. PL, 37, 64, 66, 365
    Mortlock, 37
    Moses, 183
    Moule, W. H., 317
    Murdoch, W. L., 162, 174, 193, 316-318, 320
    Mynn, Alfred, 37, 359, 385, 387
    Newland, 15
    Norman, F. H., 37
    Osbaldeston, 36, 385, 387
    Page, H. v., 40
    Palmer, G. E., 317
    Parr, George, 37, 40, 64, 65, 67, 68, 229, 258, 314, 359, 360, 362-366, 368
    Patterson, 68, 368
    Pauncefote, B. , 57
    Peel, 60, 183, 368
    Penn, Frank, 46
    Pilling, 214, 215
    Pinder, George, 279, 311
    Read, J. M., 321
    Read, W. W., 40, 121, 215, 319, 320, 321
    Ridley, 214
    Robinson, Tom, 47, 384
    Rumney, 15
    Saunders, 36
    Scott, H. J. R, 167, 318, 319
    Scott, Hon. J. Maxwell, 32, 298
    Scott, Lord George, 32, 298
    Scotton, 71, 183, 385
    Searle, 36
    Selby, 355
    Sherman, 387
    Shrewsbury, Arthur, 55, 57, 61, 62, 71, 75, 78, 79, 80, 87, 214, 215, 320, 321, 325, 355, 371, 387
    Sinclair, 32
    Small, 396
    Small, John, 17
    Smart, Charles, 283
    Smith, 15
    Steel, A. G., 32, 57, 75, 78, 80, 87, 88, 320, 321, 371
    Steel, D. Q., 68
    Stephenson, 37, 314, 365, 366
    Stoddart, A. E., 371
    Studd, C. T., 320, 321
    Sueter, Tom, 17, 24
    Tarrant, 387 ​
    Taylor, C. G., 37, 359-361
    Thornton, C. I., 79
    Tinley, R. C, 387
    Townsend, Frank, 391
    Trumble J. W., 319
    Tufton, Hon. H. and T., 356
    Tylecote, E. F. S., 321
    Ulyett, 33, 88, 90, 152, 321, 368
    Wakley, Billy, 283
    Walker, John, 365
    Walker, Tom, 20, 21, 384
    Walker, V. E., 37
    Ward, 23, 26, 31, 36, 385
    Watson, Charles, 283
    Webbe, A. J., 40, 43, 215, 382, 410
    Wenman, E. G., 37
    White, 396
    Wisden, 387
    Woolton, 311, 367
    Wyer, Michael Russell, 298
    Yardley, W., 43, 57
    (See also under University Cricketers)
Batting, art of, 34; shape of bat, 35, 36; choice of bat, 41; rules for the guidance of batsmen, 41; position at wicket, 42-44, 46; Fuller Pilch as a model batsman, 36, 43; W, G. Grace's attitude, 44; manner of holding the bat, 45; playing fast bowling, 46; position of right foot, 46, 55, 58, 67; pulling a straight fast ball to leg, 47; correct pose of left shoulder and elbow, 48, 56, 73; what to do when the ball is well outside off stump, 48; forward play, 36, 48; how to meet shooters, 50; tactics when playing and unable to smother the ball at the pitch, 51; halfcock stroke, 52; back play, 39, 53; dealing with a very short ball, 56; easy wickets, 56; the hanging ball, 57; the yorker, 58, 133, 134; offensive tactics, 59; safety plajdng, 60; the cut, 40, 42, 61; weak-wristed players' cutting, 63; the leg-hit, 64; hit to square-leg, 39, 65; pushing, 66; the glide, 67; playing a ball on the legs that is not short enough to play back to or cannot be hit to square-leg, 68; the 'draw,' 69; snicking a ball off legstump, 69; forcing stroke off the legs, 70; off-drive to coverpoint and right hand of point, 70; off balls, 71; half-volley on off side, 73 the hard drive, 74; half-volley on on side, 74; play to fast bowling on soft tricky wickets, 75; hitting on difficult wickets, 76; play to slow bowling, 77; running out to drive, 78; dealing with balls that are well outside the off stump, 80; playing lobs, 80; the pat, 81; how to meet fast or medium-pace balls on soft wickets, 83; running, 85; imitation of great players, 87; temperament, 88; nervousness, 89; rules of health, 90; sleep, 90; over-eating, 91; superstitions of players, 91; number of ways of getting out, 92, 93; fitting twice, 92; picking up the ball while ​in 'play,' 92; obstructing the field, 92; rule for playing off breaks of all paces, 121; timidity with balls on off side, 136; pokey batsman dealing with high-dropping full-pitch ball, 143; when the wicket is softened by an over-night rainfall, 146; mistakes made about the state of the wicket, 150; dealing with left-handed bowlers, 154; left-handed batsmen, 183; W. G. Grace's counsel on how to score, 300-313. (See in connection, under Bowling)
Betting, 105
Boots, 392
Border cricket, 294; character of wicket, 294; trop de zèle, 294; patriotic partiality of umpires, 295; playing for victory rather than cricket, 296; surroundings of grounds, 296; batting and bowling, 297; 'Les Enfants Perdus,' 297; 'Eccentric Flamingoes,' 297; T. R. Marshall, 297; pleasant reminiscences, 298
Bowlers, past and present, amateur and professional:—
    Absolom, 287
    Allan, 156, 157, 315, 323
    Appleby, 182
    Atkinson, 279
    Attewell, 48, 214, 215, 322, 323
    Barclay, 23, 24, 32
    Barker, Tom, 37
    Barlow, 75, 90, 153, 182
    Barnes, 59, 153, 214, 322, 355, 381
    Barrett, 322
    Bates, 77, 90, 209, 214, 355
    Bathurst, Sir F., 37, 361, 363, 368
    Bean, 354
    Beauclerk, Lord F., 356, 357, 384
    Beldham, 356, 385
    Bennett, George, 38, 78
    Bonnor, 176
    Bowley, 164, 213
    Box, Tom, 278
    Boyle, Cecil, 23
    Boyle, H. F., 315, 316, 317, 318, 322, 323
    Brand, 385
    Brett, Thomas, 17, 24
    Briggs, 90, 155, 156, 173, 213, 354, 355. 368
    Broadbridge, James, 21, 22, 35, 362
    Brown, 17, 354
    Brown, George, 362
    Browne, 23
    Buchanan, 38
    Buchanan, David, 136, 155
    Budd, 357
    Budd, E. H., 35
    Bunch, 185
    Butler, 165
    Buttress, 38, 78
    Caffyn, W., 354
    Caldecourt, 407
    Carpenter, 26
    Christopherson, 164, 165
    Clarke, William, 23, 37, 77, 80, 159-161, 359, 360, 362, 363, 387
    Cobbett, 37, 358, 387
    Cooper, W. H., 172
    Crossland, 164
    Dark, 407
    Dean, 363
    Dryden, Billy, 299
    Emmett, Tom, 90, 104, 138, ​170, 172, 182, 195, 277, 279, 310, 319, 322, 323, 359
    Evans, 76, 139, 165, 323, 368
    Felix, 362
    Fellowes, Harvey, 24, 361, 363
    Flowers, 77, 214
    Forbes, 176
    Ford, A. F. J., 241
    Francis, 165
    Freeman, 24, 165, 241, 279, 310
    Fuller Pilch, 358
    Furley, 387
    Game, 176, 277
    Garrett, T. W., 315-318, 322, 323
    Giffen, G., 171, 172, 317, 318, 322, 323
    Glassford, Clement, 299
    Grace, W. G., 157, 172, 173
    Greenwood, Luke, 367
    Hall, Harry, 25
    Hammond, 356
    Harris, David, 19, 21, 24, 355, 384
    Harrison, 164
    Hide, J., 354
    Hill, Allan, 164, 279, 355
    Hillyer, 37, 359, 362
    Hodswell, 16
    Hope Grant, 24
    Horan, 316
    Howard, T. C., 357
    Jackson, 24, 31, 35, 39, 165, 364, 365, 387
    Kempson, 363, 368
    Kendall, Tom, 156
    Knight, G., 21, 22
    Lambert, 17, 18, 23, 356
    Lang, R., 24, 270, 276
    Leslie, C. F. H., 174
    Lillywhite, John, 302, 364
    Lillywhite, W., 17, 20, 21, 35, 37, 43, 77, 357-360
    Lockwood, 355
    Lohmann, 59, 76, 214, 381
    Lumpy (Stevens), 12, 18, 24, 383
    Lyttelton, Hon. A., 319
    Mann, Noah, 18, 355
    Marcon, 24
    Marsden, T., 385, 386
    Marsham, C. D., 364, 365
    Martingell, 65, 116, 363
    Mathews, 357
    McDonnell, P. S., 317
    Mclntyre, Martin, 83
    Midwinter, 316, 318
    Miles, Farmer, 282
    Mills, 354
    Morley, Fred., 83, 84, 170, 207, 264, 315, 322, 355, 368
    Mynn, Alfred, 22-24, 26, 37, 277, 278, 357, 358, 360-363, 383, 386
    Nyren, Richard, 17
    Osbaldeston, 23, 385
    Palmer, 76, 124, 156, 168, 172, 260, 278, 318, 322, 323, 325
    Payne, 364
    Peate, 38, 75, 77, 78, 83, 151, 153, 155, 172, 278, 319, 322, 368
    Peel, 77
    Rougher, 215
    Powys, 24, 165, 270
    Redgate, 37, 277, 358
    Ridley, A. W., 160, 272, 276, 277, 315, 401
    Rotherham, 164, 168, 368, 406 ​
    Saunders, 21
    Searle, 21
    Shaw, Alfred, 38, 78, 83, 84, 125, 151, 192, 207, 214, 291, 310, 315, 322, 323, 361, 367
    Shaw, J. C, 156, 291, 302, 323, 355, 358
    Shrewsbury, 273
    Silcock, 116
    Slim, 31
    Southerton, 83, 278
    Spofforth, 23, 100, 124, 125, 137, 138, 152, 153, 166, 168, 171, 193, 243, 260, 270, 278, 279, 311, 315-318, 322, 323, 325, 369, 406
    Steel, 368
    Stephenson, 364
    Stratford, 172
    Tarrant, 47, 57, 165, 365, 366, 387
    Taylor, 363
    Thewlis, 355
    Thornton, C. I., 185
    Tinley, 31, 160
    Toppin, 164
    Tylecote, 174
    Ulyett, 164, 213, 279, 368, 406
    Vigne, 357
    Walker, 353
    Walker, Tom, 19, 22, 24, 35, 356
    Walker, V. E., 160, 401
    Watson, 77, 368
    Wenman, 358, 362
    Wheeler, 354
    Whitby, 164
    Willes, 19, 21, 22, 98
    Willsher, 23, 364-366, 387
    Wisden, 362, 364
    Wootton, 213, 310
    Wright, W, 354
    Yonge, George, 361
    (See also under University Cricketers)
Bowling, art of, 96; present contrasted with past, 97; falling off in amateur, 99; at the public schools, 99, 100; the professional bowler, 101-106, 354; object of the bowler, 106; the four motions of the ball and their intention, 107; the spin from right to left, or leg-break, 108-116; placing fieldsmen for leg-break balls, III; rotary motion of ball from left to right, or off break, 117; what becomes of likely balls if not well played, 118; break-back, 119, 121, 142; fast off break, 120; playing off breaks, 121; upward vertical spin, 122; downward vertical spin, 122; combinations of spin, 123; change of pace, 123-126; high delivery, 126; advantages of slow delivery, 126-130; two exceptions to putting on slows, 128; yorkers, 132, 168; leg half-volleys, 135; good-length ball outside off stump, 135; bowling player off his legs, 137; from different distances, 138; choice of ends, by the slow bowler, 139; taking advantage of peculiarities of time and ground, 140; avoidance of singularity of dress or manner, 141; changing from over to round the wicket, 141; varieties of full-pitch, ​142; high-dropping full-pitch, 142; ordinary slow full-pitch, 144; medium-paced full-pitch, 144; how to turn different states of the ground to advantage, 146; long-hops, 149, 150; sodden wickets, 149; the 'cutting through' state, 151; the drying state, 151; hard and crumbled wicket, 153; left-handed bowlers, 153-157; balls curling or twisting in the air, 157, 158; underhand slows, 158; lobs, 160, 211; fast bowling, 161-166; the off break, 166; long run up the wicket before delivery, 166; practising before beginning, 167; straight delivery, 167; value of long-stops, 168; leg-stump bowling, 169; bowling over and round the wicket, 169; getting leg bias on a ball, 170; attitude in delivery, 170-172; 'every cricketer should bowl,' 174; throwing, 175-178; position of the field for fast bowling, 179-182; dealing with left-handed batsmen, 182; shooters, 184; fast under-arm bowling, 185; sneaks, 185; rules for bowlers in the field, 185-190; obedience to captain, 186; quick return of bowler to wicket, 187; appeals to umpires, 187; shoes to be worn, 188; cutting up the wicket, 188; rules for beginners, 189; training young cricketers, 377. (See in connection, under Batting.)
Buccleuch, Duke of, 294
Bunyan, John, playing at cat, 4
Caps, 390
Captains, 191; few good, and those amateurs, 191, 192; difficulties of professional, 192; captaincy of the Australians, 193; qualifications for, 193; nervous order, 193; apathetic kind, 194; bowling enthusiasts, 194; duties of, 195; choice of team, 195, 209; putting the other side in first, 196; order of sending men into bat, 199-201; counsel and encouragement to players, 202; decision on men getting out on purpose, 202; M. C. C. recommendation on declaring innings at an end, 205; economising time, 205; educational hints to men, 206; correcting slovenly dress, 206; duties in the field, 206; placing bowlers, 207; placing field, 208; duties of captains of University and Public Schools teams, 209; management of school elevens, 211; enforcing practice, 212; what to drink, 212; an illustrative case in selection of team, 213-217; cheerfulness and watchfulness, 217
Cat-and-dog, 4, 5
Clothing, 389-393
Clubs:—All England Eleven, 360; Drumpellier, 32; Eccentric Flamingoes, 297; Free Foresters, 31; Hambledon, 10, 19, 21, 31, 355, 383; I. Z., 31; Melbourne, 314; ​Old Grange, 32; Richmond 125 Vine (Sevenoaks), 115 West of Scotland, 32; White Conduit, 27
Country cricket, 282; description of a rustic match in 1830, 282; dress of that period, 282; cricketing paraphernalia of the time, 283; a common warlike wind-up of the match, 284; village cricket nowadays, 284; training of village lads, 285; single wicket, 286; practice before a match, 286; sixpence on the wicket, 287; the thing to 'burn' into a young player's mind, 287; getting and saving runs, 287; management and finance, 288; subscriptions, 288; professional trainers, 286, 288; playing against strong in preference to weak teams, 289; educating the rougher element in good manners, 289; introduction of the school element, 290; a captain's reward, 290; début of Richard Humphrey, 291; expenses, 292; country umpires, 292
Cricket, history of, 1; archæology of the game, 1; Strutt on stool-ball, 3; cat-and-dog, 4; derivation of the word 'cricket,' 5; 'Miss Wicket,' 7, 11; in Queen Elizabeth's time, 7, 8; costume of cricketers in 1791, 10; the ball in 1770, 11; curved bats, 11, 24; earliest laws, 12; Mr. Love's poetical effusion, 15; A ghost at a cricket match, 15, note; Hambledon; the centre of cricket, 17; Nyren's Cricketer's Guide, 16, et seq.; Lumpy and Noah Mann, 18; David Harris, 19; William Lillywhite, 21, 22; Beldham, 25; rise of the Marylebone C C, 27; M. C C laws, 28; origin of Lord's, 27, 28; epochs in the history of the game, 31; Scotch cricket, 32; the whole art of batting, 24, 34-95; Fuller Pilch, 36, 43; W. G. Grace as a batsman, 37, 44, et seq.; C G. Lyttelton, Humphrey, and Ash, 40; Robert Carpenter, 55; scientific bowling, 21, 22, 23, 96-19C; superstitions among cricketers, 91; Willes' introduction of roundarm bowling, 98; concerning professionals, 97-106; danger of game drifting into a mere monetary speculation, 106; Spofforth, 124, 137, 322, et seq.; A. Shaw, 125; Tom Emmett, 138; Peate, 135; David Buchanan, 155; Briggs, 155; Mr. R, A. Proctor on bowling, 158; W. G. Grace as a bowler, 173; anecdote respecting W. G. Grace and Briggs, 173; bowling in Australia, 178; the genius who had discovered how to bowl shooters, 184; 'Pavilion' criticism, 202; M.C.C on declaring innings at an end, 205; Morley's geographical attainments, 207; captains and their functions, 191-217; a pattern eleven, 213-217; umpires and their duties, 218-246; a primitive match in Hampshire, 230; the umpire ​who 'dussn't give him out,' 233; the art of fielding, 247281; country cricket, 282293; description of a rustic match in 1830, 282-284; reminiscences of Border cricket, 294-299; W. G. Grace on 'How to score,' 300-313; the Australians and their doings, 311-325; early matches of English with Australian teams, 314, 315; reason alleged for excellence of Australian bowling, 323; anecdote of a famous fieldsman, 325; the University cricket match, 326-352; Bishop Wordsworth's account of the first Inter-University match, 328-331; the famous two-run success of Cambridge University in 1870, 337; the celebrated six-run victory of Oxford in 1875, 343; decadence of the Universities in bowling, 349; encounters of the Gentlemen and Players, 353-369; Alfred Mynn, 358; the art of training young cricketers, 370-380; single wicket, 381-388; advice on outfit, 389-399; suggested reforms in the game, 400-412 Cricket-grounds, Australian, 323
Dex, 1
Dorset, Duke of, 383
Dress, 206, 282, 389-393
Drink, 212
Fielding, 247; a safe field, 248; directions for, 248; backing up, 249; throwing, 250; deep field, or country catching, 252; wicket-keeping, 253257; long-leg, 258; mid-off and mid-on, 259; cover-point, 261; point, 262-264; short-slip, 265; third man, 267; short-leg, 268; long, stop, 269-272; bad, indifferent, and specious fielding, 273, 274; famous fielders, 274-278; celebrated wicket-keepers, 278, 279; young cricketers, 379
Fieldsmen:—
    Barlow, 174, 216
    Bell, F., 280
    Bickley, John, 280
    Boyle, H. F., 208, 260
    Briggs, 325
    Bury, W., 276, 280
    Carpenter, 229, 262, 280
    Dench, 362
    Diver, A., 270, 280
    Flowers, 216
    Garratt, 279
    Giffen, G., 322
    Grace, Dr. E. M., 262, 263, 280
    Grace, W. G., 264, 265, 280
    Gunn, 248, 280, 287
    Hartopp, E. S. E., 280
    Hildyard, 280
    Hodgson, 31
    King, R. T., 277, 279
    Lang, R., 276, 280
    Law, W., 261
    Lubbock, A., 280
    Lyttellon, Hon. C. G., 276
    Mansfield, Hon. J. W., 280
    Marshall, H. M., 270, 276, 280
    Mortlock, W., 280
    Pickering, W., 277, ​
    Pilch, W., 280
    Read, Maurice, 248
    Read, W. W., 209
    Royle, 249, 277, 280, 325
    Shaw, J. C, 269
    Smith, John, 64, 280
    Stoddart, 248
    Studd, G. B., 249, 280
    Taylor, Josiah, 283
    Thewlis, J., 280
    Tinley, R. C.,280
    Tobin, F., 270
    Ulyett, 215, 216
    Walker, V. E., 280
    Wright, F. W., 280
    Wright, V. E,, 280
Gentlemen and Players, 353; definition of amateur and professional, 353; Mr. W. G. Grace's share in the matches, 354, 366, 367; supremacy of professionals as bowlers, 354; congestion of professional skill in certain districts, 355; amateurs, 355; the first match, 356; details of matches played, 357-368; Alfred Mynn, 358; the Bam Door Match or Ward's Folly, 358; William Lillywhite, 359, 361; William Clarke, 360; the year 1846, 360; C. G. Taylor, 360; Fuller Pilch, 362; victories of the Players from 1853 to 1865, 363; in 1857, 364; victories of the Gentlemen from 1866 to 1879, 367; a tie, 368; the future, 369
Gloves, 393
Gregory's Australian team, 315, 316
Grounds:—Bramall Lane, Sheffield, 273, 401; Brunswick, Hove, Brighton, 302; Bullingdon Green, 326; Cowley Marsh, 326; Fenner's, 336; Lascelles Hall, 355; Lord's, 260, 24, 27, 28, 38, 55, 68, 77, 92, 94, 192, 193, 197, 210, 218, 219, 229, 237, 275, 276, 292, 297, 310, 311, 315, 319, 320, 326-328, 330, 356, 364-367, 405; Magdalen, Oxford, 326; Old Trafford, 401; Oval, 31, 66, 76, 192, 219, 229, 237, 264, 275, 319, 320, 327, 364-368, 405
Hambledon, the home of cricket, 17
Hawick, cricket at, 294, 297
Health, 90
Hockey, 2
Jackets, 391
Jerseys, 391
Kent, cricketing in, in 1830, 282
'Laws of Cricket' revised at the 'Star and Garter' by a committee of noblemen and gentlemen, &c., 219
Lord, Thomas, founder of Lord's cricket-ground, 27
Mann, Sir Horace, 384
Marylebone Cricket Club, the parliament of cricket, 27; ​presidents and secretaries, 28; abolition of rule forbidding ground to be rolled except before each innings, 146; on throwing, 177, 178; on in side being empowered to declare innings at an end, 205, 412; on definition of amateur, 353; on leg before wicket, 408; on increase of balls in an over, 412
Matches:—Australians v. Cambridge University, 315, 316, 317; v. Derbyshire, 316; v. England, 173, 198, 264, 273, 316, 317, 319, 320; v. Gentlemen of England, 172, 315317; v. Gloucestershire, 315, 316; v. Lancashire, 317; v. Leicestershire, 315; v. M.C.C. 315; v. Middlesex, 315; v. Nottingham, 315, 316, 317; v. Oxford University, 317; v. Players, 315-317; v. Surrey, 315; v. Sussex, 315; v. Yorkshire, 76, 315-317. Cambridge v. Oxford, 139, 198, 277, 326, 349; Eton v. Harrow, 330; Gentlemen v. Players, 38, 41, 89, 101, 102, 192, 275, 302, 315, 327, 351, 353-369. Gloucestershire v. Kent, 309; v. Notts, 307; v. Surrey, 88, 308; v. Yorkshire, 307. Hambledon v. England, 384; Hampshire v. England, 384; Kent v. All England, 17; v. Hambledon, 383, 384; v. Hants, 384; v. Sussex, 78. London v. Notts, 291; M.C.C. v. Cambridge University, 88, 94; v. Hertfordshire, 28; v. Kent, 307; v. Oxford University, 89; v. Yorkshire, 310. North v. South, 38, 92; Notts v. Lancashire, 39; v. Yorkshire, 64. Surrey v. Cambridge University, 93; v. England, 384; v. Kent, 43. Sussex v. Kent, 278; Winchester v. Harrow, 28; Yorkshire v. Notts, 39
Murdoch's teams of Australian cricketers, 316-318
Nervousness, 89
Nottinghamshire bowlers, 354
Outfit, 388; shirts, 388; trousers, 389; caps, 390; jackets and jerseys, 391; socks, 392; boots and shoes, 392; pads, 392; gloves, 393; bats, 395-398; balls, 398; bags, 398
Over-eating, 91
Pads, 392
Pallamajo, 1
Professionals as a class, 101, 104, 105; prospects of, in their career, 102-104; definition of, 353
Public schools and colleges, bowling at the, 97, 99, 100; captains, 209, 211; elevens, 211; Charterhouse, 328, 351; Cheltenham, 351; Clifton, 351; Eton, 9, 328, 330, 336, 350; Harrow, 328, 350; Marlborough, 350; Rugby, 155, 350; Shrewsbury, 10; Tonbridge, 321; Uppingham, 168, 351; ​Westminster, 351; Winchester, 328, 350; Wykeham, 328, 329,351
Reforms in cricket suggested, 400; grounds, 400; evils of big scoring, 401; economy of time, 403, 404; keeping spectators out of ring when innings is over, 405; boundaries, 404; rabbit nets, 405; round-arm bowling, 406; checking big run-getting, 407; leg before wicket, 407-410; umpires, 409; bowlers, 411; declaring innings at an end, 412; increase in the number of balls in an over, 412
Regimen, 212
Rounder, 1, 2
Rustic match, a, in 1830, 282
Scores, how to make good, 300; diet, sleep, and exercise, 300; early training, 301; practice on ground previous to match, 301; testing pads, gloves, and shoes, 302; punctuality at wicket, 303; taking guard, 303; observation of position of field, 303; beginning of innings, 304; avoidance of sharp runs, 304; running out big hits, 305; playing balls too quickly, 305; dealing with thirst, 305; modesty in the hour of victory, 306; differing orders of wickets, 306; a fast, dry, and true wicket, 306; a fast, good, wet wicket, 308; a slow, good, dry wicket, 308; a bumpy wicket, 309; a drying, sticky wicket, 311; dealing with straight balls, 311; divers valuable hints, 311, 312; playing against odds, 312
Scotch cricket, 32, 198, 232
Scott's Australian eleven, 319
Shirts, 388
Shoes, 188, 243, 392
Single wicket, 286, 381; rules, 382; annals of the game, 383-387
Sleep, 90
Smoking, 212
Snob cricket, 1
Socks, 392
Spikes, 188
Stool ball, 1-4
Stump-cricket, 1
Subscriptions, 288
Superstition among players, 91
Sutton-in-Ashfield, the nursery of bowlers, 355
Sweaters, 391
Temperament, 89
Throwing, 175
Training young cricketers, art of, 370; beginning early, 370; evils of over-coaching, 371, 375; learning to bat, 372377; duties of the coach, 375; teaching to bowl, 377-380; fielding, 379
Trousers, 389
Umpires, 218; none in early days of cricket, 218; scoring by the 'nolcher,' 218; rules for, in the 'Laws of Cricket,' ​219; former custom of each side providing its own, 219; present mode of nominating, 220; source from whence drawn, 220; difficulties of, 220; deciding on question of bat or hand touching ball, 220; finality of decisions, 222; in cases of l. b. w., 224, 409; recalcitrant Australians, 227; mutinous bowlers, 228; club cricket disputes, 228; at rustic matches, 229-233; folly of giving reasons for decisions, 233; qualifications for, 234; indispensableness of good sight and hearing, 235; quickness in deciding, 235; powers of concentration, 235; duties of, 236; ground measuring and placing of stumps, 236; settlement of boundaries, 237; punctuality, 237; position at wicket, 237; crying 'no ball,' 238; wide ball, 239; precedence of appeal to, at bowler's end, 240; bump balls, 241; stumping, 242; fair and unfair play, 243; at striker's end, 243; use of common sense, 246; country specimens, 292
Umpires:—Barker, Tom, 292; Bayley, John, 292; Caldecourt, 292, 407, 408, 411; Dark, 407, 408, 411; Good, 292; Ost, 283
Universities, bowling at the, 97, loi; captains, 209, 211, 212; teams, 276
University cricketers (see also under Batsmen and Bowlers):
    Absalom, 342
    Anson, T. A., 332
    Baily, 336
    Balfour, R. D., 332
    Barnard, 328, 330
    Bastard, 332
    Bayley, 329
    Belcher, 337, 341, 342
    Blacker, 344, 346
    Blore, E. W., 334
    Booth, 349
    Bourne, 337, 340, 341
    Briggs, 343, 345
    Buckland, 332, 344. 345
    Bullock, 332
    Butler, 335, 337, 340, 341
    Campbell, 344
    Case, 350
    Cobden, 335, 337, 340-343
    Cochrane, 332
    Curteb, 349
    Dale, 337, 338, 343
    Evans, A. H., 332
    Fawcett, E, B., 335
    Fellowes, E. L., 332
    Fellowes, W., 333
    Fiennes, W., 333
    Ford, A. F. J., 332
    Forster, 332
    Fortescue, 339, 343
    Fowler, 349
    Francis, 337, 339, 343, 350
    Freeman, George, 348
    Fryer, 335, 339
    Game, 343, 345, 348
    Greenfield, 346
    Hamilton, 346
    Hill, F. H., 339-342
    Jenner, Herbert, 329
    Kelcey, 344, 345
    Kempson, 351
    Kenney, E. M., 332, 334, 350, 351
    Key, 333, 351
    Lane, C. G., 336, ​
    Lang, R., 332, 333, 334, 343, 344, 346, 347, 348, 351
    Leslie, 327, 350
    Longman, G. H., 336, 337, 344, 346
    Lucas, 346, 351
    Lyttelton, 346, 347
    Lyttelton, A., 351
    Lyttelton, Hon. C. C. (now Lord), 333, 335, 336, 351
    Macan, 346-348
    Maitland, W. F., 332
    Makinson, J, 327, 333, 334, 351
    Manning, Henry (Cardinal), 328
    Marsham, C. D., 326, 327, 333-334, 340, 342, 351
    Mills, W., 332
    Mitchell, 333, 334, 349, 351
    Money, 335, 337
    Morton, P. H., 332
    O'Brien, 327
    Nepean, 332
    Onslow, D. R., 335
    Ottaway, 337-340, 343, 348, 351
    Patterson, 343-345, 347
    Pauncefote, 337, 339, 342, 343, 350, 351
    Payne, A., 333
    Peake, 332
    Pelham, Hoa F. G., 332, 349
    Plowden, H. M., 332, 333, 335, 351
    Powys, W. N., 332, 337
    Pulman, 344, 345, 348
    Raynor, 336
    Ridding, A., 326
    Ridding, C. H., 326
    Ridley, A. W., 336, 343-347, 349, 351
    Rock, C. W., 331, 332
    Royle, 344-347
    St. Andrews, Bishop of, 328
    Salter, H. W., 332, 333, 335
    Sayres, 334
    Scott, Lord George, 333, 335, 337
    Sharpe, 343-346
    Sims, 347-349
    Smith, 348
    Smith, A. F., 337
    Smith, C. A., 332
    St. Croix, W. de, 332
    Stedman, 335
    Steel, A. G., 331, 332, 334, 351
    Stewart, 341, 342
    Studd, C. T., 331, 332, 351
    Tabor, 336
    Thornton, 335
    Tobin, 335
    Townshend, 339, 343
    Traill, W. F., 332, 351
    Tuck, G. H., 332
    Tylecote, 337, 339, 343, 345
    Voules, S. C, 332
    Walker, J., 335
    Walker, R. D., 326, 327, 336
    Ward, 339
    Ward, Rev. A. R., 342-344
    Ward, Harrison, 337
    Webbe, 343, 344, 347
    Whitby, 332
    Wills, T. W., 327
    Wright, 333
    Yardley, 332-335, 337, 338, 343, 350, 351
    Yonge, G. E., 334
University cricket-match, the, 326; rules of qualification to play in, 326; advantage of playing on own ground, 327; Bishop Wordsworth's account ​of the first inter-University match, 328-331; results of matches, 331; indifferent bowling, 331; individual scores, 332, 333; celebrated bowlers, 334, 335; Mr. S. E. Butler's great bowling feat, 335; batting failures, 336; vicissitudes of the contests, 336; description of the two-run success of Cambridge, 337-343; details of the six-run victory of Oxford, 343-349; standing of the public schools in regard to University elevens, 350; all-round players, 351 Wicket-keeper, duties of, 211, 221, 222, 253-257
Wicket-keepers:—
    Anson, T. A., 277, 278
    Blackham, J. M., 270, 278, 279, 317
    Box, Tom, 278
    Bush, 278
    Jarvis, 279
    Jenner, Herbert, 278
    Leatham, 278
    Lockyer, 278
    Lyttelton, Alfred, 242, 278
    Mortlock, 270
    Newton, 278
    Nicholson, W., 278
    Pilling, 214, 215, 278
    Pinder, George, 278, 279, 310
    Plumb, 278
    Pooley, 278
    Ridding, W., 278
    Sherwin, 214, 255, 278
    Tylecote, E. F. S., 278
    Tylecote, H. G., 276
    Wenman, E. G., 278
Yorkers, derivation of name, 133
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