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Updated: June 22, 2025
The umpire must take especial care to call "no ball" instantly upon delivery "wide ball" as soon as it shall have passed the batsman, and not, as a confused umpire once called, "No ball wide out."
"Well bowled!" said Raffles with less reserve. Another delivery was merely ignored, both at the wicket and at my side, and then came a high full-pitch to leg which the batsman hit hard but very late. It was a hit that might have smashed the pavilion palings.
"A very pretty ball," said my fellow batsman at the other wicket "A d d pretty ball," I reiterated sotto voce, as I beat a retreat towards the flag in the corner of the field, which served as a pavilion. "For," said he, "I 'ate that drabby-handed business; it looks so awkid. Muddling work, I calls it." But I am anticipating.
There is a certain type of school batsman who considers that to force the game means to swipe blindly at every ball on the chance of taking it half-volley. This policy sometimes leads to a boundary or two, as it did on this occasion, but it means that wickets will fall, as also happened now. Seventy-four for three became eighty-six for five. Burgess began to look happier.
Porson's bowling as from that at the other end; for the master did not wish to discourage them, and for a few overs after each batsman came to the wicket aimed well off it so as to give them a chance of scoring. The last wicket fell for the respectable score of fifty-four. The junior eleven then went in, the master not going in until the last. Only twenty runs had been made when he took the bat.
This time Amber did not even inquire what it indicated she was almost content to take it as an endorsement of Walter Bassett's epigrams. But Lord Woodham eagerly improved the situation. "A fine stroke that," he said, "but a batsman outside a team doesn't play the game." "It will be a good time for the country, Lord Woodham," Mr.
"If the batsman talks again he will be ordered off the grounds," declared Umpire Tozier sternly. But Dick felt the sting of his opponent's taunt and longed to be even. Greg signaled for a drop ball -a difficult one for a schoolboy to throw. It was the first time in the game that Greg had asked for this. Dick "made up" the ball with extra care, then let it go.
Mr Smith, who always went in last for his side, and who so far had not received a single ball during the week, was down the pavilion steps and half-way to the wicket before the retiring batsman had taken half a dozen steps. 'Last over, said the wicket-keeper to Mike. 'Any idea how many you've got? You must be near your century, I should think. 'Ninety-eight, said Mike.
We have only to stand "mid-off" or "point" on a cold day at the beginning of May whilst a hard-hitting batsman, well set on a true wicket, is driving or cutting ball after ball against our hands and shins, to realise what a capital school for courage the game is!
After that he must have a knowledge of curves and know how by causing the ball to spin in a certain way to cause it to change its course and thus to deceive the batsman. The art of curving a ball was discovered in 1867. Before that time all that a pitcher needed was a straight, swift delivery. The three general classes of curved balls used to-day are the out-curve, the in-curve, and the drop.
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