Page:The Crisis in Cricket and the Leg Before Rule (1928).djvu/1



The author points out the danger that threatens cricket in consequence of the great increase in the number of drawn matches which are due to the huge run-getting of the present day. The remedies suggested are an alteration of the leg before wicket rule and some limitation put to the artificial preparation of wickets.

He hopes to arouse the public to a sense of the danger which now hangs over the game, and to consider what changes should be made to diminish the unhealthy run-getting of modern cricket, which is the cause of so many drawn matches.