Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 252
s rising from the pitch. It adds force tothe hit—besides enabling the striker to get toexactly the right spot—to jump in to meet theball, even leaving ones ground and taking the riskof being stumped, if the ball is missed altogether.This is exactly what the batsman is doing inFig. 7, which,… … Fig. 7. body will be added to the swing of thearms and bat. One rule must never be for-gotten : Never jump out to drive a ball on theoff-side. It is hard to keep the bat straight cricket] THE encyclop.4:dia of sport when the ball is, say, a foot wide of the off-stump; the chances of missing it are…
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