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CRICKET.

CURIOSITIES OF FIELDING.

William Yalden jumped over a fence, stumbled and caught the ball when on his back about 1800
Capt. Adams, on the Old Phoenix Park Ground, jumped over an iron fence 3 ft. 10 high, and, while in the air, caught the ball with his left hand in 1844
R. C. Tinley, playing for the A.E.E. v. XXII. of Birmingham, caught 12 men at point in 1854
W. Caffyn, playing for the A.E.E. v. XXII. of Ipswich, threw in a ball from long-off which passed through the stumps and dislodged the bails at the bowler's end, and then travelled to the other wicket, passing through the stumps and dislodging the bails also 1853
In a match of three innings between the Gentlemen of Hampshire v. Gentlemen of Kent at Canterbury, wides and byes amounted to 145 out of a total of 615 runs 1857
Pooley stumped 4 and caught 8 for Surrey v. Sussex, at the Oval, July 6th and yth, 1868; and stumped 4 and caught 4 for Surrey v. Kent (the following match), July 9th and 10th 1868

THE SIZE OF SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL GROUNDS IN ENGLAND.
  Whole
Ground.
Match
Enclosure,
about
Lord's12 Acres6 Acres
Oval11 Acres6 acres
Gloucestershire County Ground15 acres8 acres
OldTrafford7 acres5½acres
Brighton10 acres6 acres
Trent Bridge, Nottingham10 acres6 acres
Bramall Lane, Sheffield11¾acres8 acres
St. Lawrence, Canterbury7 acres5¾acres
Mote Park, Maidstone 5½acres 5 acres
Birmingham 12 acres 5½acres
Scarborough7 acres 6 acres
Fenner's, Cambridge8 acres 6 acres
The Parks, Oxford10 acres 5½acres