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FORWARD CUT.
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distinguish another off-hit, is a hit made by Butler, Guy, Dakin, Parr, and indeed especially by the Nottingham men, who, Clarke thinks, "hit all round them" better than men of any other county (see fig. 3.). The figures being foreshortened as seen by the bowler, the artist unwillingly sacrifices effect to show the correct

Fig. 3.

position of the feet. This hit may be made from balls too wide and too low for the backward cut.