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Rh wickets in our villages. If the members of some of our village clubs would devote an evening or two a week to the rolling and improving of their wickets, instead of always wanting to practise their batting and bowling, they would, I am quite sure, find their cricket soon begin to improve. I myself like to see a good innings played by a batsman on a difficult wicket; but there is a vast difference between a "bad-good" wicket (if I may use such an expression) and one which has never received any preparation whatever, and on which the veriest yokel is more likely to slog up 20 runs than one of the leading players of a county.