Cricket musings.

Rugby has been getting a good airing of late, so I thought it was maybe time for some more matters cricket.

            Here is a picture of one of the wicket bases complete with stumps in place and bails. Quite often when tracking down the old sets for either collecting or amusement, the most likely item to be missing is the bails, or should that be are the bails!! I was fortunate to aquire a complete set with both sets of bails present.
            The raised areas are for deflecting the ball either to the slips, or the wicket keeper, if the ball ends up in the cup of either figure, that counts as being caught behind.It is quite common for this to happen once the bowling technique is acquired.