Wicket Collection (page 3)

Cricket bowling a low delivery
A bowler comes on to bowl a low delivery hoping to get a wicket. Date: 1886

Cricket Short Slip
A fielder has been placed as short slip so he stands to the right or left of the wicket keeper to aid any catches delivered behind the batsman. Date: 1888

Cricket A Run Out
A Batsman gets run out during the match as he is out of hes crease. Date: 1888

Cricket The Wicket Keeper
A wicket keeper demonstrating the correct way of how to wicket keep. Date: circa 19th century

Baltic Copper Mine Cricket Club, Michigan, USA
Baltic Cricket Team - comprising of miners from Painesdale, Michigan, USA - played in the Copper (Houghton) County Cricket League, founded in 1906

Cricket Match
A game of cricket. Date: 1970s

Dogs Playing Cricket
Mrs. L. Goodwins (of All Saints Avenue, Margate, Kent, England) clever German Shepherd (Alsatian) dogs playing cricket. Date: early 1930s

Hows That - A young wicketkeeper whips off the bails
" Hows That?" - A young wicketkeeper whips off the bails and appeals vigorously for a stumping dismissal as the batsman sneaks out of his crease. (see also: 10724035) Date: 1905

Boy provides straightforward answer when quizzed by Uncle
Uncle John - " Well, Bobby, how did you manage to get out so soon?" Bobby " Leg Before, Uncle." Date: circa 1890s

Out First Ball - Young lad has his stumps re-arranged
" Out First Ball" - Young lad has his stumps re-arranged (see also: 10948415). Date: 1905

Italian Ox-drawn Chariot
A smartly-dressed group of Italian Ladies, each with a marvellous hat, stand somewhat awkwardly in a wicker-sided ox-drawn chariot near Siena, Italy

Don Bradman Gives Lesson
A boy receives a cricket lesson from his hero, the famous Australian cricketer Sir DON BRADMAN, ( The Don ) who lived to a ripe old age, a good innings, indeed! Date: 1908 - 2001

Cricket in the Park
A game of cricket in a London park, the wicket keeper sitting on a chair behind the wicket tree! Date: early 1930s

Switzerland - Two women carrying logs - Contadine
Switzerland - Two Swiss rural farm women, standing on a high road in the morning light, carrying logs in huge wicker backpack baskets. Date: circa 1910s

W G Grace at the wicket
W G Grace (1848-1915), English cricketer, seen here at the wicket. 1892

Fuller Pilch / Cricketer
FULLER PILCH A member of the Kent cricket team. Date: mid 19th century

Double page spread in a diary for 14-19 May
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 14-19 May. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Street Scene with German Soldier
Bosnia & Herzegovina - Street Scene with an onion and garlic stall and including a German Soldier (World War One era). The centre of the shot is dominated by a rather heavily-laden donkey

Joseph Vine - Cricketer - Bowling
Joseph Vine (1875-1946). Wisden joint cricketer of the year in 1906. Played for England in 1911/12

Sponge, nuts and fig Sellers - turkey
Itinerant street vendors of Sponges, Figs and Nuts in Constantinople, Turkey

Angola - Ferry Passengers
Passengers on a ferry off Sao Thome, Angola. A woman with a baby child on her back stands alongside a stack of wicket containers

Mexico - Itinerant pot seller
Mexico - Itinerant decorated pot seller taking a rest on the side of a road in the Mexcian countryside

Cricket Match between Actors and Authors at Lords Cricket G
Illustration showing a number of the players in a one-day match between actors and authors held at Lords cricket ground, June 1905. The actors won the match by 8 wickets and 7 runs

Pilgrims Progress 24
Mercy swoons at the wicket gate

Pilgrims Progress 4
Goodwill helps Christian to pass through the Wicket Gate

Jackson / Cricketer
(Sir Francis) Stanley Jackson, English cricketer (1870-1947)

Wynyard / Cricketer
Edward Wynyard, English cricketer and Captain for Hampshire, seen here at the wicket

Middlesex Vs. Notts 1892
Cricket match at Lords between Middlesex and Nottinghamshire. Batsman Shrewsbury is seen being caught at mid wicket by Phillips

Slum Cricket
A group of boys play a game of cricket on waste ground. A piece of wood propped up with coats serves as a makeshift wicket, while the ball is composed of who knows what?

Boy Cricketer
A young batsman leans on his bat near the wicket

Sport / Gryllo
A strange game, Gryllo, based on double-wicket cricket, but played with lawn tennis racquets instead of bats. A net at each end of the pitch takes the place of the stumps!

Cricket at Bearstead
Bearstead, Kent. Here is to be seen Cricket on the Village Green at its very best. The noble expanse of sward, forms a delightful setting for players and spectators alike

Cricket / Lyttelton / V. Fair
Hon Alfred Lyttelton keeping wicket

Cricket / Going for a Run
A cricket match in progress. The batsman has clipped the ball square and a finely be- shirted and facially hirsute fielder gives chase

Cricket Net Practice
Indoor cricket net practice (2 of 2)

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