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<p>A cricket historian describes an early attribute of cricket"</p>
<p>A cricket historian describes an early attribute of cricket"</p>
<p>" .&nbsp;. . the reason we hear sometimes of he Block-hole was . . . because between these&nbsp; [two]&nbsp;two-feet-asunder stumps [the third stump in the wicket had not yet been introduced] there was cut a hole big enough to contain a ball, and (as now with the school boy's game of <strong>rounders</strong>) the [<strong>cricket</strong>] hitter was made out in running a notch by the ball being popped into [a] hole (whence 'popping crease') before the point of the bat could reach it."</p>
<p>" .&nbsp;. . the reason we hear sometimes of he Block-hole was . . . because between these&nbsp; [two]&nbsp;two-feet-asunder stumps [the third stump in the wicket had not yet been introduced] there was cut a hole big enough to contain a ball, and (as now with the school boy's game of <strong>rounders</strong>) the hitter was made out in running a notch by the ball being popped into [a] hole (whence 'popping crease') before the point of the bat could reach it."</p>
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|Sources=<p>James Pycroft, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Cricket Field</span> [1854], page 68. Submitted by John Thorn, 1/13/2007.</p>
|Sources=<p>James Pycroft, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Cricket Field</span> [1854], page 68. Submitted by John Thorn, 1/13/2007.</p>

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Historian Describes Facet of 1850s "School Boys' Game of Rounders"

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A cricket historian describes an early attribute of cricket"

" . . . the reason we hear sometimes of he Block-hole was . . . because between these  [two] two-feet-asunder stumps [the third stump in the wicket had not yet been introduced] there was cut a hole big enough to contain a ball, and (as now with the school boy's game of rounders) the hitter was made out in running a notch by the ball being popped into [a] hole (whence 'popping crease') before the point of the bat could reach it."

 

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James Pycroft, The Cricket Field [1854], page 68. Submitted by John Thorn, 1/13/2007.

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Note: Pycroft was first published in 1851. See item #1851.1. Was this material in the first edition?

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