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jmsf nf guarding liis wicket), or for handling the 

 hull while in pluv, unions rri|urstrd to ilo so ly the 

 o|i|inMtr vii|r. It is tli duty of tin- fieldsmen ti 

 save as many runs an potwible, and to do t hi- they 

 -.In HI lil not only \\.-HI-II every ball that is bowled, 

 but they should endeavour, if possible, to anticipate 



Long Ltg 



Long Slip 



Hint Man 



Short Slip 



Wicket Kieptf 



JL 



Batimaa 



Umplrt 



Oovtf Point 



Hid On 



Off 



Bowlei 



O Batman 

 O Umplrt 



Long Field 







The Cricket Field for Fast Bowling. 



where the batsman intends to hit the ball. The 

 positions of the fieldsmen vary with the bowling, 

 but for fast bowling may be given as wicket- 

 keeper, point, cover-point, short-slip, long-slip, 

 third man, long-field, mid-on, mid-off, long-leg, 

 bowler. The bowler as a rule takes slip at the 

 end he bowls from, for the simple reason that little 

 running about is required of him. For point 

 and cover-point great smartness is necessary, and 

 both long-slip and long-leg are places which are 

 not easy to fill satisfactorily ; while the long-fields 

 should be good at throwing, and able to judge a 

 catch well. It is necessary to have two umpires 

 and a scorer. 



See C. Box, The English Oaine of Cricket (1877), and 

 Chronicles of Cricket (1888); Lillywhite's Cricket Scores 

 ami Biographies (1862) ; Daft's Kings of Cricket (1893); 

 books on the game by Gale (1888), Bligh (1889), W. G. 

 Grace (1891), and Nyren (1893); the 'Badminton' 

 manual, by Steel, Lyttleton, and others (1889); and 

 The Jubilee Book of Cricket, by the 'Black Prince of 

 Cricketers,' Prince Ranjitsinbji (1897). 



Cricket (Gryllus), a genus of orthopterous 

 insects akin to grasshoppers. Long feelers, a 

 rasping organ on the wing-covers of the males, 

 wings closely folded lengthwise, but often along 

 with the wing-covers degenerate, great powers of 

 leaping, and a retiring, more or less subterranean 

 Iniliit of life, are some of the more important char- 

 acteristics of the family (Gryllidre) of which the 

 cricket is a type. The females are fertilised by 

 means of peculiar spermatophores, and as in allied 

 Orthoptera there is no marked metamorphosis in 

 the lire-history. In the genus Gryllus the head Is 

 blunt, the antennre are long and thin, the wings 

 are always present, the hind-legs are very broad and 



strong, and the females have a Htraight protruding 

 egg-laying organ. The Field Cricket(6'. cumuextri*) 

 is very common throughout Europe in fields and 

 meadowH ( local in England ), and in very well 

 known from the sound, bv means of which the 

 male captivates his mate. The body U compressed, 

 the head is black and shining, the wing-covens are 

 brown and yellow at the root*. As in other crickeU, 

 the noise of the males is made by rubbing the wing- 

 covers against one another. The under side of one of 

 the nervures bears over a hundred sharp transverse 

 ridges or teeth. These insects hide in burrows in 

 the ground, and sometimes do much damage to 

 vegetables. The female lays numerous eggs in the 

 burrow, and the larvie remain as such through the 

 winter. The House Cricket (G. domesticus ) has a 

 lanker, yellowish-brown body an inch long. A 

 recent arrival in the United States, it is common 

 throughout Europe in houses, is said to occur in 

 the open air in Madeira, and even in Britain occa- 

 sionally wanders out of doors in summer. It 

 hides in nooks and crevices, and loves the neigh- 

 bourhood of the fire, especially in winter. Ite 

 merry note has become associated with ideas of 

 domesticity ( as in Dickens's Cricket on the Hearth ). 



House Cricket ( Gryllus domesticus) : 

 a, full-grown larva ; 6, pupa ; c, perfect insect. 



Without the heat of the fire, it becomes more 

 or less dormant in winter. It remains quiet dur- 

 ing the day, but hunts about actively at night 



Mole Cricket and eggs (Oryllotalpa vulgaris). 



for crumbs and other scraps both animal and 

 vegetable. For the sake of both food and warmth 

 it often frequents bakehouses. The larvie are 

 wingless, ana the pupte have only rudimentary 

 wings. The loudest noise made by a cricket is 

 probably that of a Sicilian species (G. mcgalo- 



