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PREFATORY NOTE.
In the following work the author has received special assistance from Mr W. J. Ford, Professor Case, Mr C. B. Fry, Dr Butler, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Mr Gaston of Brighton, and the writers on County Cricket. To these, and to other players of the game and wellwishers of it who have lent him their help, he desires to record his grateful thanks here.
August 1897.
