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42 covers mid-on and short-leg, and an extra field is put between mid-off and cover. But how different is the whole method of fielding in these days! A bowler fields anywhere now except wicket-keep and in the deep field, while short-slip being, with the exception of wicket-keep, the most important man in the field (at any rate to fast bowling), fields there both ends; and so important is the fielding in the slips generally that a modern innovation has been found in the shape of a short-slip, the popular name for which is cover-slip, where Lohmann has covered himself with glory. He stands sometimes so close to short-slip that they may almost shake hands. The bowler fields wherever he is most at home; while some of the most brilliant fielding in modern times has been shown by the extra mid-off, with which the name of G. B. Studd will ever be associated. There is far more elasticity in the whole arrangement; if an off-hitter like Palairet is batting, third man is put back against the ropes to save the fours. One