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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.

[i]

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.

“Gaudet … aprici gramine campi.”
“Pila velox,
Molliter austerum studio fallente laborem.”—Hor.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS
1854.

[ii]

“’Twas in the prime of summer time,
An evening calm and cool,
And five and twenty happy boys
Came bounding out of school.
Away they sped with gamesome minds
And souls untouched with sin;
To a level mead they came, and there
They drove the wickets in.”
Hood.

London:
A. and G. A. Spottiswoode,
New-street-Square.

[iii]

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.

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[v]

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

This Edition is greatly improved by variousadditions and corrections, for which we gratefullyacknowledge our obligations to the Rev. R. T.King and Mr. A. Haygarth, as also

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