Good evening and welcome to boring books for bedtime. I hope tonight's installment provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep for once.

So lie back, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath. And off we go.

This evening, we're reading a book recommended by one of your fellow listeners,

and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. We're reading The Cricket Field or the history and the science

of the game of cricket by James Pyecroft, the author of the Principles of Scientific Batting,

Recollections of College Days, etc, etc.

2nd Edition.

published by Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London,

1854.

Let's begin.

Dedicated to J. A.B. Marshall Esquire and the members of the Landsdown Cricket Club by one of their oldest members and sincere friend, the author.

Quote,

T'was in the prime of summertime, an evening calm and cool, and five and twenty happy

boys came bounding out of school.

A way they sped with gamesome minds and souls untouched with sin.

To a level mead they came came and there they drove the wickets in."

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Preface to the Second Edition.

This edition is greatly improved by various editions and

corrections, for which we gratefully acknowledge our obligations to the Reverend R.T. King, and Mr. A. Hagarth.

As also once more to Mr. A. Bass and Mr. Watley of Burton. For our practical instructions on bowling, batting,

and fielding, the first players of the day have been consulted, each on the point in which he

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