Object number
M.1979.TN.117
Title
New Cricketing Dress
Date
1854
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Size
38 x 47.5 cm
Description
Monochrome print with caption 'New cricketing dresses, to protect all England against the present swift bowling'. Two cricketers standing at the wicket wearing exaggerated protective clothing as do the two fielders in the background.
Display caption
Ten years before overarm bowling was legalised, cartoonist John Leech was able to imagine cricketers of the future in protective clothing. In this case the danger was caused not so much by the bowlers as by the Lord’s pitch, widely regarded as the most dangerous in England.
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