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THE CRICKET FIELD.
eleven, he will, if worth anything, make a study of running, and avoid so unpleasant a reflection for the future. Fancy such a mem. as this:—"Pilch run out because Rash hesitated," or "Rash run out because when the hitter called he was not backing up."
These and many other ideas on this most essential, yet most neglected, part of the game, I shall endeavour to illustrate by the following computation of runs which might have been added to an innings of 100.
Suppose, therefore, 100 runs scored; 90 by hits, 4 by wide balls, and 6 by byes and leg byes—the loss is commonly as follows:—
| 1. | Singles lost from hits | about 10 |
| 2. | Ones instead of twos, by not making the former run quickly and turning for a second, but over-running ground and stopping | " 4 |
| 3. | Runs that might have been stolen from balls dropped and slovenly handled | " 3 |
| 4. | Loss from fieldsmen standing where they please, and covering more ground than they dare do with sharp runners | " 5 |
| 5. | Loss from not having those misses which result from hurrying the field | " 4 |
| 6. | Loss from bowlers not being ruffled, as they would be if feeling the runs should be stopped | " 7 |
| 7. | Extra loss from byes not run (with the least "slobbering" the runners may cross—though Dean is cunning) | " 6 |
