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PYCROFT, James (1813-1895). The Principles of Scientific Batting. Oxford: H. Slater & London: Whittaker and J.H. Dark, 1835. 12° (159 x 94mm). 44pp. + 2pp. advertisement. Original cloth with paper ttile label on front cover (water-staining at upper margin of front cover, on pastedowns and free endpapers, front inner hinges split). Provenance: MCC (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION published while Pycroft was still an undergraduate at Oxford. His manual contained a formal set of rules on how to bat and some sound dietary advice for cricketers: 'Ale and Porter render the eye very dull. The dinner alters the course of the game considerably; but it has more effect on the Bowling, than on the Batting'. Padwick 705.
FIRST EDITION published while Pycroft was still an undergraduate at Oxford. His manual contained a formal set of rules on how to bat and some sound dietary advice for cricketers: 'Ale and Porter render the eye very dull. The dinner alters the course of the game considerably; but it has more effect on the Bowling, than on the Batting'. Padwick 705.