A correspondent of the Standard published on Wednesday an account
of some cricket-matches which has in it something of the pathetic as well as curious. The matches are played by the students of the College for the Blind at Worcester, who use a wicker-ball with a bell in it, and are guided entirely by ear. Behind the stumps a wicket-keeper claps his hands, and the bowlers, guided by ear only, sometimes hit the wicket three times out of six. The batting is usually inferior, the ball being heard only when it touches ground ; but one lad often makes seventy runs off his own bat. An experiment was tried of a match after dark between the blind cricketers and some friends who could see, and, of course, the latter were nowhere. One realises the perpetual darkness of the blind from that little incident in a most painful way ; it is so unbroken, that new powers develop themselves in the remaining
senses. •
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