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42 and round. Some shooters no doubt were impossible to stop, especially when combined with a break back. Such shooters as these may be easily remembered by those who saw the University match in 1870, when S. E. Butler, bowling from the pavilion end, got all ten Cambridge wickets at a cost of under four runs per wicket, several of them with balls that shot dead and broke down hill. There was indeed some credit to a batsman who got runs under these circumstances.

I have hitherto written about bowling and batting, the development of the latter being entirely dependent on and governed by the development of the former. It must not be supposed, however, that fielding has not developed very much in the same way and from the same causes. Between 1827 and 1878 the fields were placed in very much the same positions. I mean by this that to a slow bowler there was a fixed method of placing the field, as there was to medium and fast bowling. A little variety might be made by a particular bat with a particular hit, such as George Parr leg-hitting; but, as a rule, to fast bowling there was a mid-on and a mid-off, a cover-point and a short-leg,