The fieldsman must return the ball so that it shall cross the play between the wicket and the bowling-stump, or between the bowling-stump and the bounds; the striker may run till the ball be so returned.
If any fieldsman stop the ball with his bat, the ball shall be considered dead, and the opposite party shall add five runs to their score; if any be run, they shall have five in all.
I put down the sandwich I was eating, rose from my seat, picked the ball up neatly, and returned it with unerring aim to a fieldsman who was waiting for it with becoming deference.
As soon as the panting fieldsman had sprinted to one side of the football ground and returned the ball, there was a beautiful, musical plonk, and the ball soared to the very opposite quarter of the field.
No one can expect to become a good fieldsman without assiduous and often irksome practice, and this, combined with the undue prominence bestowed on batting, may account somewhat for the deterioration.
Short runs are invariably attempted if the “third man” is at all likely to be flurried, so that the fieldsmanselected for the position must essentially be cool and collected.
Thus it is that a little selfishness may crop up, for whereas the fieldsman may feel that, like the spoke of a wheel, he is only part of a whole, the batsman or bowler feels that he is an individual.
His cutting of the ball, which was always placed to beat the fieldsman at third man, was admirable, as was his hooking, chiefly by wrist work, of the short ball.
The fieldsman who excels is the one who, gathering the ball accurately, returns it to the keeper or bowler with one and the same action.
True, the fieldsmanmay have helped the bowler by a brilliant catch or two, but there is no record of the amount of runs he may have saved.
A fast runner nascitur non fit: still, practice does much, and especially for all the purposes of a fieldsman near the wicket.
He descries when the fieldsman has a long reach with his left hand, or when he must overbalance and right himself, or turn before he can throw.
To become a good fieldsman requires persevering practice, with a “big fellow” to fag for who will expect a little more smartness than is always developed by pure love of the game.
Long-leg is a fieldsman nearly as essential as a good long-stop.
I remember playing a match in which I had difficulty in carrying the election of a first-rate fieldsman against a second-rate bat.
A bad fieldsman is a loose screw in your machinery; giving confidence to the adversary, and taking the spirit out of his own party.
This depends on the quickness of the fieldsman and the judgment of the runners.
If the batsman often does not know where the rise or bias may reflect the ball, how should the fieldsman know?
Any good fieldsman will explain, far better than our pen, the art of picking up a ball in the only position consistent with a quick return.
If the striker should attempt to run, the bowler should immediately run to the wicket, and the fieldsman should throw the ball to him, so that he may catch it, and touch the wicket with it to get the striker out.
When the first striker is out, the fieldsman will take his place, the striker will bowl, and the bowler will take the field.
The fieldsman must return the ball so that it shall cross the space between the wicket and the bowling stump, or between the bowling stumps and the bounds; the striker may run till the ball be so returned.
The fieldsman may stop the ball with any part of his person, but if he willfully stop it otherwise the ball shall be “dead,” and five runs added to the score.
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