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104 batting the other side was demoralised. He never flinched from the fast bowling on rough wickets, and yet such was his resource and quickness of eye, that it is astonishing to remember how few times he has ever been hit by the ball. He has a bat in his hands, and with that he hits the ball, and there is no more to be said. To fast bowling he never looked as if any ball presented any difficulty whatever to him; he would place good length balls somewhere past short leg, place that field where you liked. He was a fast or medium-pace bowler, bowling for the Gentlemen against the Players before most first-class cricketers had cut their first tooth; and, to this day, notwithstanding his age and weight, you could hardly leave him out of your first eleven. So prodigious has been his batting, that people forget that for several years he was one of the most successful bowlers in England, and one of the best fields. For ten years or thereabouts he got more than a hundred wickets in the season; while in 1875 and 1877 he got more wickets