archie mac
International Coach
2000 books and you don't have that one? I can scan it but I don't know how to put it into here?
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Victor Trumper - A Tribute
- Thread starter SJS
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Pratters
Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Mail it to me. I will put it here.
Or you can use rapidshare.com to upload it and use the link here.
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fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Nearly 3000 now Archie but definitely not got that
Oddly although I lack the ability to scan or use berita and can't work out how to use Facebook I do know how to post images
We should pool our skills!
Oddly although I lack the ability to scan or use berita and can't work out how to use Facebook I do know how to post images
We should pool our skills!
archie mac
International Coach
Thanks mateMail it to me. I will put it here.
Remember me in your will
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Will do Archie although it's only fair to point out that I am planning to outlive youRemember me in your will
archie mac
International Coach
Not with the plan your son and I have
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
He's been smirking all week - now I know whyNot with the plan your son and I have
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Monty Noble on Trumper (continued)
Tackling Leg Theory :
Every cricketer knows how difficult it is to score off leg theory, when so many fields-men are placed on the on-side. Your play becomes cramped and you find it dangerous to utilize the strokes which you would use normally and without penalty. Victor employed a method known to all but seldom employed by other than the most fleet-footed and versatile players. To any ball ... within comfortable reach, he would run down the pitch, at the same time drawing away to the on-side, (Picture-I below) and drive it straight or to the off.
If it was short pitched he would back quickly in the direction of the squareleg umpire and square or late cut it across the wicket to the off-side, where probably only one fielder would be stationed. (sometimes even off the front-foot. (Picture II Below)
Tackling off Theory :
If off theory were attempted his numerous square and late cuts were brought into play. (pictures III to VI below), and his strong wrists and forearm, together with perfect timing, enabled him to straight drive anything over tossed. (pictures VII to X below)
The outstanding feature of his batting was not that he made so many varied and beautiful strokes , but that he had the ability to get into the proper position which made those strokes possible. Fast bowlers more than any other had a chance of dismissing him early in his innings. .... he treated them with the same scant respect that he meted out to all others. When he really got going it was difficult to know where to pitch the ball. Anything short of good length would be banged to the leg-boundary.
When a yorker on the leg stump was was pitched up to him he would pivot on his left leg and, raising the right foot, would glance it to fine-leg. The fact that the bat was substituted for the foot at the last minute was not always readily discerned by the bowler, who momentarily imagining that the ball was certain to hit the foot, would appeal for LBW, only to find, immediately afterwards, much to his surprise, that he had been hit for four.
Victor's best, most effective and most beautiful stroke was made off a fast ball well up on the middle stump. The bat would meet the ball at half volley, and, with a flick of the wrist at the moment of contact, it would be forced along the ground at great pace forward of short leg into the country. No assistance was given here by the pace of the ball from the bowler as there is in the making of the leg glance; it was pure wrist work and wonderful timing.
It was often said that no one could place a field for Trumper and that was literally true, for when he received balls which most batsmen would hit on the off, where most of the fields-men were, he would upset all calculations by banging them to the other side where the country was practically open. That, together with his ability to hit to three separate parts of the field nearly any ball bowled to him, illustrates the difficulties faced by any captain in effectively placing a field for his batting.
Since his day, Australia has produced several good batsmen - C Gregory, JRM Mackay, CG Macartney, JM Taylor and A Kippax, for instance - each of each of whom, in turn, has been described as "the coming Trumper" but none of them have approached the master in all round ability, yet the fact that all comparisons in on a high scale in Australia is made with Trumper shows in what estimation his genius was held. And there are many in England too, who will readily acknowledge that even the mother of cricket produced no greater son.
Every cricketer knows how difficult it is to score off leg theory, when so many fields-men are placed on the on-side. Your play becomes cramped and you find it dangerous to utilize the strokes which you would use normally and without penalty. Victor employed a method known to all but seldom employed by other than the most fleet-footed and versatile players. To any ball ... within comfortable reach, he would run down the pitch, at the same time drawing away to the on-side, (Picture-I below) and drive it straight or to the off.
If it was short pitched he would back quickly in the direction of the squareleg umpire and square or late cut it across the wicket to the off-side, where probably only one fielder would be stationed. (sometimes even off the front-foot. (Picture II Below)
Tackling off Theory :
If off theory were attempted his numerous square and late cuts were brought into play. (pictures III to VI below), and his strong wrists and forearm, together with perfect timing, enabled him to straight drive anything over tossed. (pictures VII to X below)
The outstanding feature of his batting was not that he made so many varied and beautiful strokes , but that he had the ability to get into the proper position which made those strokes possible. Fast bowlers more than any other had a chance of dismissing him early in his innings. .... he treated them with the same scant respect that he meted out to all others. When he really got going it was difficult to know where to pitch the ball. Anything short of good length would be banged to the leg-boundary.
When a yorker on the leg stump was was pitched up to him he would pivot on his left leg and, raising the right foot, would glance it to fine-leg. The fact that the bat was substituted for the foot at the last minute was not always readily discerned by the bowler, who momentarily imagining that the ball was certain to hit the foot, would appeal for LBW, only to find, immediately afterwards, much to his surprise, that he had been hit for four.
Victor's best, most effective and most beautiful stroke was made off a fast ball well up on the middle stump. The bat would meet the ball at half volley, and, with a flick of the wrist at the moment of contact, it would be forced along the ground at great pace forward of short leg into the country. No assistance was given here by the pace of the ball from the bowler as there is in the making of the leg glance; it was pure wrist work and wonderful timing.
It was often said that no one could place a field for Trumper and that was literally true, for when he received balls which most batsmen would hit on the off, where most of the fields-men were, he would upset all calculations by banging them to the other side where the country was practically open. That, together with his ability to hit to three separate parts of the field nearly any ball bowled to him, illustrates the difficulties faced by any captain in effectively placing a field for his batting.
Since his day, Australia has produced several good batsmen - C Gregory, JRM Mackay, CG Macartney, JM Taylor and A Kippax, for instance - each of each of whom, in turn, has been described as "the coming Trumper" but none of them have approached the master in all round ability, yet the fact that all comparisons in on a high scale in Australia is made with Trumper shows in what estimation his genius was held. And there are many in England too, who will readily acknowledge that even the mother of cricket produced no greater son.
Monty Noble writing in his book - The Game's The Thing (1926)
Pictures - I & II
Pictures III to VI - A Range of square, late and back cuts
Pictures VII to X - Straight driving - either side of the bowler
Pictures III to VI - A Range of square, late and back cuts
Pictures VII to X - Straight driving - either side of the bowler
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The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
Remember me in your will
Then remember ME in your will.
Sorry Archie.
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Bloody vultures - any reports/rumours of my impending demise are wholly inaccurate - I hope 
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I'm pretty sure they are all taken at Lords on the Nursery
archie mac
International Coach
Then remember ME in your will.
Sorry Archie.
How old are you?
Just don't leave the house and you should be fineBloody vultures - any reports/rumours of my impending demise are wholly inaccurate - I hope
SJS
Hall of Fame Member
Oh I am sorry. You know I used to get very small print on size "1" earlier but of late my PC is showing it fairly large thats why I used the type.
I am afraid cant change for any but the very last post which I have. Tell me if its okay.
