  PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF THE GAME OF CRICKET. CHAP II. THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF CRICKET. CHAP. III. THE HAMBLEDON CLUB AND THE OLD PLAYERS. CHAP. IV. CRICKET GENERALLY ESTABLISHED AS A NATIONAL GAME BY THE END OF THE LAST CENTURY. CHAP. V. THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF THE PRESENT CENTURY. CHAP. VI. A DARK CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF CRICKET. CHAP. VII. ??????????, OR THE SCIENCE AND ART OF BATTING. CHAP. VIII. HINTS AGAINST SLOW BOWLING. CHAP. IX. BOWLING. AN HOUR WITH "OLD CLARKE." CHAP. XI. CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. MISCELLANEOUS. Title: The Cricket Field Or, the History and Science of the Game of Cricket Author: James Pycroft Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by MWS |
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H. Adlard sc.
THE BOWLER.
William Clarke. The Slow Bowler & Sec’y to the All England Eleven.
London. Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans.
THE
CRICKET FIELD:
OR,
THE HISTORY AND THE SCIENCE
OF THE
GAME OF CRICKET.
BY
THE AUTHOR OF “THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC BATTING,”
“RECOLLECTIONS OF COLLEGE DAYS,”
ETC. ETC.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS
1854.
London:
A. and G. A. Spottiswoode,
New-street-Square.
DEDICATED
TO
J. A. B. MARSHALL, ESQ.,
AND THE
MEMBERS OF THE LANSDOWN CRICKET CLUB,
BY ONE OF THEIR OLDEST MEMBERS
AND SINCERE FRIEND,
THE AUTHOR.
