A bat may in the same manner be painted on one side of the card, and a cricketerupon the other, which will exhibit the same phenomenon, arising from the same principle.
Supposing that our cricketer can stop and catch a ball pretty well, the next point for him to study is to throw it in carefully.
It is absurd to try to keep wicket well without wearing these gauntlets; therefore let no young cricketer be fool-hardy enough to attempt the feat.
It is time to do that when a wicket falls, but very unlike a true cricketer to endeavour to attract the field's attention just as the bowler is about to deliver the ball.
There was a slight internal struggle, and then Mr Smith ceased to be the cricketer and became the host.
Fancy putting a cricketer like that into the City!
The cricketer in Mr Smith came to the top again, blended now, however, with the host.
He is now thirty-five, and it is a long time since he played his first International match, and long before he was a cricketer he had made his name as a footballer.
He has the respect and admiration of everyone, and this year he has come to the front as a cricketer and finished at the head of the Derbyshire averages.
Raffles bidden to what he had well called this "gruesome board," not as a cricketer but, clearly, as a suspected criminal!
That's the cricketer for me, sir; by Jove, we must have another drink in his honor!
I had no reason to suppose he was not trying; these things happen to the cricketer who plays out of his class; but when the great Raffles went on to bowl, and was hit all over the field, I was not so sure.
There happened not to be another cricketer among us, and it was on their own subjects that Raffles laughed with the lot in turn and in the lump.
Mr. Wells perhaps got his love of outdoor life from his father, Joseph Wells, who was a professional cricketer and the son of the head gardener of Lord de Lisle at Penhurst Castle, in Kent.
It is not good for a society that a cricketer or a prize-fighter or a dancer should be esteemed and rewarded more highly than the man who discovers a cure for malaria or cancer.
He was noted, too, as a cricketer of no mean ability, having succeeded his father as the professional of the famous St. George Club long before he was ever heard of in connection with the National Game.
As a cricketer he ranked among the best in the country.
Grace, the champion cricketerof England, retired from the game, a game typical of England.
For the cricketer would never have been a cricketer, nor the violinist a violinist, had he been born in a country where cricket and violin playing were unknown.
The love of praise may even lure us towards an act, and baulk us of its performance: as when a cricketer sacrifices the applause of the crowd in order to win the praise of captain or critics.
A cricketer who drank, or neglected to practise, would be acting as immorally towards the rest of the team as he would if he fielded carelessly or batted selfishly.
It is really what happens with the rifleman who gives way to the recoil and forms a habit of flinching, or with the cricketer who allows his desire to score to overcome his habit of caution.
A pianist, an artist, or a cricketer is "made as well as born," and so is every man.
Because at least one admirable cricketer was left at home whose services on several occasions would have been invaluable.
But even the great cricketer looked less pleased with himself than usual.
Surely it was not Evan Devereux batting at all, but a higher order of cricketer in Evan's image, an altogether stronger soul in his skin!
Some matches were abandoned without a ball being bowled; but towards Founder's Day there was some improvement, and to insult the injured cricketer there had been several fine Sundays before that.
But Crabtree was not cricketer enough to perceive the quality of the butter apart from the quantity, and some sad samples escaped detection.
Wilman began to treat him with less respect than the cricketer of highest class; in club cricket, to be sure, there were few sounder or more consistent players than the Swiller.
Moreover it had come with a gust of unpopularity in itself enough to chill the ardour of a more enthusiastic cricketer than Jan Rutter.
It served me right for dropping those catches," said Carpenter, however, with the stoicism of a true cricketer at heart.
Dudley Relton was a new master that term, but as an Oxford cricketer his fame was scarcely past its height.
There was the inevitable Swiller Wilman, a younger cricketerof less exalted class who nevertheless compiled an almost annual century in the match, and was the cheeriest creature in either team.
But Sprawson will make the most of it," says the cricketer with icy sneer.
Accordingly in other games and sports the expert may revel in the proud consciousness of superiority, and in weak moments betray that fact in his demeanour; but the cricketer can venture on no such dangerous exhibition of conceit.
Cricketer was written all over him--in his walk, in the way he took guard, in his stand at the wicket.
Jackson the cricketer he knew, but Jackson the deliverer of knockout blows was strange to him, and he found this new acquaintance a man to be respected.
It does not occur to you to admit your capabilities as a cricketer in an open, straightforward way and place them at the disposal of the school.
As a cricketer he was almost entirely self-taught.
To a certain type of cricketer runs are runs, wherever and however made.
Mike, on the cricket field, could not have looked anything but a cricketer if he had turned out in a tweed suit and hobnail boots.
Jackson, the archaeologist of yesterday, becomes the cricketer of today.
This is the way the one-time cricketer and football champion viewed his first “ball game.
A cricketer is fascinated by their rapidity and skill in catching and throwing.
Ranji's most telling stroke, as every cricketer knows, is what is technically known as the "hook" stroke.
Grace, the second best all-round cricketerin England.
That he can unbend faster than any other cricketerpast or present is an incontestable fact.
What would he think if my cricketer retaliated by asking, in the pause before the sermon, how the vicarage pony took his last bolus?
My ancient cricketer abounds in reminiscence of the glorious days that have gone for ever.
And if perchance one should escape, my ancientcricketer will be as startled as Cadmus at the crop he has sown.
Players at Lord’s, a feat never performed in this match by any other cricketer appearing for either denomination.
Of the amateurs, be it said that no more brilliant all-round cricketer has walked out of a pavilion than F.
The last-named cricketer was about that time at his best, and many and outspoken have been the regrets that this finecricketer could never spare the time to appear much in English v.
Palairet’s method of standing at the wicket is generally supposed to be the model attitude, and another cricketer whose position might well be studied is R.
This is the secret of all forward play, and the young cricketer cannot be too often urged to “get the left leg well out to the bat” when playing forward.
Besides, let any cricketer compare the two methods of playing back, and he will, I am convinced, find the one I have urged the easiest and most natural.
There is no cricketer so easy to get on with, or who makes a house match go better, than a distinguished amateur.
As I said before, to the cricketer who has got his heart and soul in the game, there is nothing much more exhilarating than the sleepy field being rudely awakened to a just sense of his duties.
I do not believe the cricketer who says he has never been nervous—he is certainly not a first-class cricketerif he adheres to that statement; but nervousness will gradually disappear as a batsman gains confidence in himself.
Fry is one of the very best things of the many that he has done:— He made his own style of bowling, and a beautiful style it was—so beautiful that none but a decent cricketer could fully appreciate it.
Good cricketer and footballer, I mean, and all that sort of thing.
Cricketer was written all over him--in his walk, in the way he took guard, in his stand at the wickets.
Jackson, the archaeologist of yesterday, becomes the cricketer of to-day.
Mike's going to be the starcricketer of the family.
Years hence a white-haired bank-clerk will tap at your door when you're a prosperous professional cricketer with your photograph in Wisden.
Studd, he was an all-round cricketer of the greatest value to a county team.
O'Brien, though an Irishman, belongs as a cricketer to Middlesex; but T.
Grace, who is credited with eight centuries, is the only cricketer who exceeded the hundred more than twice at Lord's in the fixture, 164 by J.
Lucas, afterwards a member of the county club, was a famouscricketer who played for England in 1880 in the first Australian test match.
I am glad to hear it, for I am a great cricketer myself.
It was a great friend of mine that I had gone forth to see: a cricketer whose only sin was the century that kept him out of the pavilion: a man without an enemy but the one he turned out to fight at forty.
As the cricketer said about the yorker, what else can you call him?
And to this end, and this end only, he had become a good cricketer and footballer.
Young Morris had never played for his village before, but his reputation as a cricketer was considerable, and the country-side awaited his display with some curiosity.
Tommy's main desire appears to be a cricketer just now," observed the doctor.
Those rainy interludes in the pavilion which so develop the stoicism of the first-class cricketer had no power to make a philosopher of him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cricketer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
