Nature . still looking at the spot where the ball was when itwas struck. The whole series of photographs provesthat all great batsmen follow the ball with their everight up to the moment of striking. It is this whichgives precision, just as in golf. Ranjitsinhji is figured in twentv photographs, andit is in the comparison of these with the attitudes ofother cricketers that the limitations of the method of November 23, 1905] NA TURE instantaneous photography appear. Except in a fewlasts there is no appreciable difference between hisattitudes and those of others; the characteristic styleof Ranji
Nature . still looking at the spot where the ball was when itwas struck. The whole series of photographs provesthat all great batsmen follow the ball with their everight up to the moment of striking. It is this whichgives precision, just as in golf. Ranjitsinhji is figured in twentv photographs, andit is in the comparison of these with the attitudes ofother cricketers that the limitations of the method of November 23, 1905] NA TURE instantaneous photography appear. Except in a fewlasts there is no appreciable difference between hisattitudes and those of others; the characteristic styleof Ranjitsinhji depends upon the rapidity of thesuccessive movements which go to make the completestroke, and this is necessarily lost in the momentarypicture. One verv characteristic poise of body isgiven in the eighteenth of the series of pictures ofthe Indian cricketer. Here we have the finish of thewill known leg-glance. To quote from Mr. Frys. description :— the unique part of the stroke is thefoot work . . the left foot is moved across right infront of the wicket, passing immediately across theright. The body from the hips upwards is twistedround towards the leg-side. The bat, at the instantit meets the ball, is perfectly upright just in front ofthe left knee. Playing this stroke in this way wouldbe impossible for anyone less supple and less quickthan Ranjitsinhji. This is not the place for discussing in any detail NO. 1882. VOL. 73] the many different kinds of strokes recognised incricket, though a good deal might be spoken regard-ing the dynamical principles underlying some of themethods indicated. For example, the lowering of thegrip of the right hand in defensive strokes, as whenthe player plays back, is the obvious way of gettinga more powerful couple to act on the bat and preventit being rotated by the impulse of the ball. Theplaver probably does not think of it in that way, butby experience he has found it to be
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