James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1882

H O W TO PLACE T H E CRICKET-FIELD. 3 7 8 9 No. V. T o a fast round-a r mbowler. 7 5 3. 4- 2 S 11 1 0 S 1 2 1. B o w l e r. 2. Wicket-keeper. 5. Long-slip. 9. M i d-off. 6. T h i r dm a n. 10. M i d-o n. 3. L o n g-stop. 7. P o i n t. 11. Short-leg. 4. Short-slip . 8. Cover-point. 12. Long-leg. S. S. Strikers. U. U. Umpires . 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 be well 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 show chiefly the direction relative to the wickets in w h i c heach fieldsman is placed . Theyare not intended to be mathematically accurate inpoint of distance , as the necessity of compressing the field to showthe full length of the wickets has made the fieldsmen in several instances out of proportion , and the measurementof their positions , in comparison with the scale of groundfrombatsman to batsman, inaccurate ].