James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annnual 1881

3 0 LILLYWHITE'SCRICKETERS' A N N U A L. 6 8 9 N o .V . T oa fastr o u n d-a r mb o w l e r. 5 2 3 S 11 S 10 1 2 1. B o w l e r. 2. Wicket-keeper. 3. Long-stop . 5. Long-slip . 6. T h i r dm a n. 9. M i d-off . 10. M i d-on. 7. P o i n t. 11. Short-leg. 8. Cover-point. 12. L o n g-leg. S. S Strikers . U. U. Umpires. 4. Short-slip . Somebowlers prefer to dispense with long-leg (No. 12); but this device should not be tried without good reason . In case of his removal it would bewell to place him at mid-on (No. 10), as the field , it will be seen , is placed for twelve instead of eleven men. [These diagrams are intended to showchiefly the direction relative to the wickets in whicheach fieldsman is placed . Theyare not intended to be mathematically accurate in point of distance , as the necessity of compressing the field to showthe full length ofthewickets has madethe fieldsmen in several instances out of proportion , andthe measurementof their positions , in comparison with the scale of groundfrombatsman t ob a t s m a n, inaccurate].