A slip catching cradle is a device used by

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s to practice taking catches. It consists of long, thin ash lathes over a bowed

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frame and is commonly used at most

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

clubs. It was invented by the Reverend Gilbert Harrison Bartlett.

References

Cricinfo
*Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1959 (Obituaries) {{DEFAULTSORT:Slip Catching Cradle Cricket equipment Cricket terminology