. "", cricketing reminiscences and personal recollections. third man and long leg will teachyoungsters how to allow for this mysterous twistand to field the ball properly. In my own ex-perience I have noticed cricketers who ought tobe at home anywhere in the field blundering out-rageously in attempting to field at third man andlong leg. I have seen them run straight to meet aball, which immediately hit the ground, twistedsharply away from them so that they have not eventouched it, let alone stopped it. The extent towhich a fieldsman may be deceived by one of thesecurling balls can be forci
. "", cricketing reminiscences and personal recollections. third man and long leg will teachyoungsters how to allow for this mysterous twistand to field the ball properly. In my own ex-perience I have noticed cricketers who ought tobe at home anywhere in the field blundering out-rageously in attempting to field at third man andlong leg. I have seen them run straight to meet aball, which immediately hit the ground, twistedsharply away from them so that they have not eventouched it, let alone stopped it. The extent towhich a fieldsman may be deceived by one of thesecurling balls can be forcibly illustrated by thesimple statement that I have seen a man prepareto field a ball with his right hand which, in theend, he only just stopped with his left. For thisreason long leg and third man are two of the mostarduous positions in the field, and should only beoccupied by reliable fieldsmen whose judgment issufficiently sound to enable them to stop the ball,whether it deviates merely a few inches, or, as itdoes on some occasions, twists a yard or PHOTO ByJ LORD HAWKF. ThAWKINS. BRIGHTON.
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