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Lodge, Nevile, Sidney, 1918-1989 :With the series against the visiting M. C. C. cricket team starting tomorrow, we again provide this handy chart to help readers to keep a ball-by-ball check on the position of the games. Long off. Extra cover. Point. Deep 3rd man. 3rd slip. Mid off. Cover. Silly point. Keeper. Gully. 2nd slip. Deep field. Bowler. 1st slip. Long on. Mid on. Silly mid on. Silly mid off. Short leg. Batsman. Short leg. Square leg. Short backward square. Fine leg. Deep square. Sports Post [Summer] 1965.
- Date
- 1965
- By
- Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989
- Reference
- B-137-573
- Description
Cartoon explaining cricket terms such as 'silly mid off' with a picture of of a cricketer behaving foolishly. 'Deep square' has a cricketer reading a book on nuclear physics while listening to a classical record. 'Extra cover' shows a man under a tent, and 'cover' a man under an umbrella. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd slip are all men slipping over. Fine leg and square leg are a man showing his shapely leg and another with a square-looking leg. 'Long on' is a Chinese player, while 'Long off' is very tall, with his head out of the frame of the cartoon. The bowler is wearing a bowler hat and the batsman is batting with a 'batty' or foolish look on his face.
Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies.
Physical Description: Photocopy, A3 size
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Photocopy available in Turnbull Library Pictures
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988] / Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
- Format
- 1 photocopy/ies, Works of art, Cartoons (Commentary), Photocopy, A3 size
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