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CHAPTER VI.

FIELDING.^[1]

(By the Hon. R. H. Lyttelton.)

ERTAIN natural qualifications are indispensable to enable any cricketer to become a great fieldsman. The highest reputation that can be attained by any painstaking cricketer who is not endowed with these qualifications is that of being a good

'Saving the four.'

↑ We are largely indebted to an article on this subject by the Hon. and Rev. E. Lyttelton, which appeared in Lillywhite's Annual for 1881.

[1] We are largely indebted to an article on this subject by the Hon. and Rev. E. Lyttelton, which appeared in Lillywhite's Annual for 1881.

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