The Cricket of Able, Hirst and Shrewsbury

About this eBook

Editor

Miles, Eustace, 1868-1948

Title

The Cricket of Abel, Hirst, and Shrewsbury

Credits

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure

Subject

Cricket

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 58702

Release Date

January 15, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Cricket of Abel, Hirst, and Shrewsbury
2. 2.EDITORS’ PREFACE.
3. 3.POSTSCRIPTS.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. — THE CRICKET OF ABEL, HIRST AND SHREWSBURY.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. BATTING AND RUNNING. — I.—INTRODUCTORY. — 2.—THE ALPHABET OF SAFE BATTING. — SOME SAMPLE EXERCISES. — PRACTICE OUTSIDE THE NETS. — NET-PRACTICE. — GAMES. — WAITING FOR THE BALL. — BACK-PLAY; THE GLIDE; THE HALF-COCK. — FORWARD-PLAY AND SAFE DRIVING. — THE PULL AND HIGH DRIVE. — CUTTING. — LEAVING BALLS ALONE. — MOVING OUT. — RUNNING. — GENERAL HINTS.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. BOWLING. — INTRODUCTORY. — ORDER OF LEARNING. — THE ACTION OF BOWLING — DIRECTION. — LENGTH AND HEIGHT. — PACE. — BREAK, SPIN, CURL, ETC. — GENERAL HINTS.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. FIELDING AND THROWING-IN.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. NOTES ON WICKET-KEEPING, CAPTAINING, IMPLEMENTS. — NOTES ON WICKET-KEEPING. — NOTES ON CAPTAINING, ESPECIALLY AT SCHOOLS. — NOTES ON IMPLEMENTS.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. THE IMPORTANCE OF ALL-ROUNDNESS IN CRICKET.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. FAULTS IN PLAY AND PRACTICE.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. GENERAL TRAINING FOR CRICKET.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. SPECIAL EXERCISES AND NOTES ON PRACTICE. — THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF EXERCISES — GENERAL HINTS ON THE EXERCISES AND ON PRACTICE. — ACTUAL EXERCISES,
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. FALLACIES OF THEORISTS AND OTHERS.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. MERITS OF CRICKET.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. SUGGESTED REFORMS.
17. 17.APPENDICES — APPENDIX I. THE EDITOR’S DEFENCE OF THIS SYSTEM FOR BEGINNERS AND OTHERS. — APPENDIX II. LAWS OF THE GAME. — ONE DAY MATCHES. — SINGLE WICKET. — INSTRUCTIONS TO UMPIRES. — FITNESS OF GROUND. — FITNESS OF LIGHT FOR PLAY. — CODE OF SIGNALLING. — Passed by M.C.C. Committee, June 16th, 1902. — RULES OF COUNTY CRICKET. — COUNTY CLASSIFICATION. — CLASSIFICATION OF COUNTIES. — THE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP.

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