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Excerpt from How to Play Cricket: A Manual for American Cricketers Now that we have a Cricketers' Association of the United States, some action should be taken looking to an improvement of the laws of cricket; or, if not that, to an authoritative interpreta tion of those at present accepted. We learn in the play of cricket, and from written treatises always English in their source - that the revision of the laws of cricket made in 1870 by the Marylebone Club of London, although an improvement on that previously made, is not what it should be, and that the laws as they now stand are very defective. Our brethren of the cricket field on the other side of the Atlantic seem to be nothing if not conservative, so that although the defective ness of the present code is fully admitted, the leading club stands fast by its love of 1870, and no revision has to this time been made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.