PUNCH'S GUIDE TO CRICKET.
Observe the following rules, and if you do not make a colonial reputation it is your own fault :■— 1. Always apologise if yon happen to bowl a " maiden over." • ■*. ,
2. Always do the block when the bowling's straight. 3. You can make a "good drive" without a horse and trap. 4. When you are appointed wicket keeper you should not take them home with'you. 5. It is not necessary for the umpire to be a hunch back.
6. Even in summer there's no batting in the field.
7. Take bail for every one you can. 8. Underhand work is tolerated in this game. 9. Don't stir your stumps or else you will be out. ZJa^' 10. The united eleven do not nunatjff twenty-two. ■ 11. You can cut a bowler without offending him.. : 12. Ladies are] very pretty round arm bowlers.
13. A square leg is not thought peculiar in the field. : .•'•■'
14. Spiking an adversary is not exactly kind. , ' 15. Run up a score, they won't dun you. ' -
17. Go in and win, or come out and do the other thing.
17. It can never be to hot for cricket, but cricket can be too hot for you.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2890, 21 May 1878, Page 2
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202PUNCH'S GUIDE TO CRICKET. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2890, 21 May 1878, Page 2
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