THE LEG-BREAK DIAGRAM 110 POSITION OF FIELD IF BOWLING ON LEG } 111 SIDE } THE LEG-BREAK _From a photograph_ 113 LIKELY BALLS; AND WHAT MAY BECOME } 114 OF THEM IF NOT CORRECTLY PLAYED } THE OFF BREAK _From a photograph_ 116 ‘OFF BREAKS’ 117 SLOW BALL 123 FAST BALL 123 A HOT RETURN _From a photograph_ 127 A POKEY BATSMAN DEALING WITH A } _From a photograph_ 139 HIGH-DROPPING FULL-PITCH } LOW DELIVERY ″ 167 DOUBTFUL DELIVERY ″ 174 THE FIELD FOR A FAST RIGHT-ARM } 176 BOWLER } THE FIELD FOR A FAST LEFT-ARM BOWLER 177 GOING IN _Lucien Davis_ 187 ETON _v._ HARROW ″ 208 AT WICKET AFTER BOWLING _From a photograph_ 214 ‘GUARD, PLEASE, UMPIRE’ _Lucien Davis_ 217 A CLEAR CASE _From a photograph_ 224 ‘YOU MUST GO, JACK’ ″ 229 STUMPED _Lucien Davis_ 243 ‘SAVING THE FOUR’ ″ 245 BACKING UP ″ 247 ‘OVERTAKING AND PICKING UP’ _From a photograph_ 249 THE RIGHT WAY TO CATCH ″ 250 THE WRONG WAY TO CATCH ″ 251 WICKET-KEEPER--SHERWIN IN POSITION ″ 252 WICKET-KEEPER--ANOTHER POSITION ″ 254 HIT TO SQUARE-LEG _Lucien Davis_ 256 POINT _From a photograph_ 261 SHORT-SLIP ″ 264 THE WRONG POSITION FOR STOPPING THE } ″ 273 BALL } AN ANXIOUS MOMENT _Lucien Davis_ 279 A SIX-YEAR OLD _From a photograph_ 375 DRAWING AWAY FROM THE WICKET _Lucien Davis_ 379 [Illustration: A YOUNG CRICKETER (_From a Picture ascribed to Gainsborough belonging to the M.C.C._)] CRICKET. CHAPTER I. THE HISTORY OF CRICKET. (BY ANDREW LANG.) _Archæology of the Game._