COCOA-NUT CRICKET.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 11, 4 May 1876, Page 2

COCOA-NUT CRICKET.

The cricketing correspondent of the Melbourne "Leader/' in writing of a match to bo played "up in the wilds," by the aid of the great nev/ device of cocoanut liiutUng, says : — £: This match -will be the first' of any consequeaca j>layed 021 one of the cocoa-nub matting wickets, a':d as the 1 wicket ' for the occasion has just boon iuade in Melbourne, under the supervision of Mr. Eudd, hon. secretary of the East Melbourne Olid), I will, for the benefit of my country readers, give a few particulars of it. In first plate, it is nine s feet in -width. As no nuifciing imported i# ; go wide as thai. a six feet width. had tobe ! procured, and on each rude a strip. of eighteen indies in width has had to.be sewn. Thesa scams will not be injurious 1 in the slightest degree, as na ball that ; pitches so far out can be dangerous. Its ; 1 jiigtli is fifty-eight iofct, which is from ! ] ! °Ppi n S crease to papphvj. eve use. .The batman and bowler thus beta stand on teira firnia. Eyelet holes have been made in various; places throughout its length oil' both sides and at each end, in v/hich,,to drive pegs so as to fasten it thinly. It 1b a great idea, and not only does it give the possibility of playing 'cricket' on mahy country grounds, whore at the present time that is impossible ; but if each town club procures one of these wickets the question of playing, or at any sate of practissng, in winter is solved, for. the players can now be independent of the stat* of the ground. Any bare p'ahpi can bs utilise'd, and I shall be surprised, if the idea is not eagerly' seized upon and carried into