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Identifier: wgcricketingremi00grac (find matches)
Title: "W.G.", cricketing reminiscences and personal recollections
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Grace, W. G. (William Gilbert), 1848-1915
Subjects: Cricket
Publisher: London, J. Bowden
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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g habit of flourish-ing your bat in the air. Nothing is gained byit, and sometimes a good deal is lost by it.Personally, I find that the greatest scope forfreedom of play is secured by holding the bat inwhat is called the pendulum fashion, which tendsto facility of movement, without diminishing inthe slightest degree the batsmans power of de-fence. I await the attack of the bowler with thetop of the handle of my bat just above my waist,and the bottom of the blade almost on a levelwith the centre of the middle stump. One of the primary essentials of a batsman isjudgment in timing the ball. This depends onthe accuracy of the eye and the nerve of thebatsman. Above all, take care that the bat hitsthe ball, and not the ball the bat, by which Imean, let the ball receive the full force of the bat. Confidence c^mes with experience, and untilconfidence is acquired a batsmans defence cannotbe good. An uncertam and vacillating style spellsfailure, for in batting he who hesitates is assuredly 5 o
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