AMAZING CATCHES
CRICKETER and bird A famous cricketer, noted for his wonderful catches in the slips, was once asked how he had attained such proficiency in fielding. He replied, “Oh, it is quite simple. I used to get the village lads to beat the hedgerows and then I caught the sparrows and any other birds that came out. It was ideal practice for fast ones in the slips.” “Before you dismiss that as the joke it was no doubt intended to be. it may surprise you to learn that fielders have really caught birds instead of. balls during actual cricket matches,” said Frank W. Lane in a broadcast to the forces. “During a match in Australia, some years ago, an out-fielder was taking it easy when he was suddenly jerked wide away by a cry from the bowler. The fielder saw a dark shape coming toward him and made a wild grab. He caught ‘it’ all right; but it | was not the ball, it was a bird.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22201, 19 February 1942, Page 8
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167AMAZING CATCHES Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22201, 19 February 1942, Page 8
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