Slip catching cradle

Slip catching cradle

The Reverend Gilbert Harrison invented the slip catching cradle, used by cricketers to practice taking catches. It consists of long, thin ash lathes over a bowed metal frame and is commonly used at most cricket clubs.

He attended Cambridge University and he represented Corpus Christi at rowing and lawn tennis. He was Rector of Fulmodeston, Norfolk and previously Rector of Cley-next-the-Sea."

He died in a Norwich nursing home on October 10 1958, aged 76,

References

* [http://content-www.cricinfo.com/columns/content/story/141370.html Cricinfo]

*Wisden Cricketers Almanac 1959 (Obituaries)


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