The Cricket Field
by James Pycroft
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About this eBook
- Author
- Pycroft, James, 1813-1895
- Title
- The Cricket Field: Or, the History and Science of the Game of Cricket
- Credits
- E-text prepared by MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure
- Subject
- Cricket
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 52022
- Release Date
- May 7, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- 3.PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- 4.CONTENTS. — THE CRICKET FIELD.
- 5.CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF THE GAME OF CRICKET.
- 6.CHAP II. THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF CRICKET.
- 7.CHAP. III. THE HAMBLEDON CLUB AND THE OLD PLAYERS.
- 8.CHAP. IV. CRICKET GENERALLY ESTABLISHED AS A NATIONAL GAME BY THE END OF THE LAST CENTURY.
- 9.CHAP. V. THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF THE PRESENT CENTURY.
- 10.CHAP. VI. A DARK CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF CRICKET.
- 11.CHAP. VII. Βαττολογια, OR THE SCIENCE AND ART OF BATTING.
- 12.CHAP. VIII. HINTS AGAINST SLOW BOWLING.
- 13.CHAP. IX. BOWLING.—AN HOUR WITH “OLD CLARKE.”
- 14.CHAP. X. HINTS ON FIELDING.
- 15.CHAP. XI. CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.—MISCELLANEOUS.
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