Cricket 1883

16 CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. FEB. 16, 1883. VICTORIA v. NEW SOUTH WALES. The twenty-ninth Inter-colonial crieket match between the Victorian and New South Wales teams was commenced on December 24th, on the ground of the Melbourne Club. The elevens who were to oppose each other in this instance were admittedly strong, although the Victorians, through the absence of Palmer and Cooper, had lost much of their bowling strength. This de­ fect became very soon apparent, and from the day’s play it was manifest that the two players mentioned, as well as M ‘Shane and Edwards, should not have been absent from the Victorian rankr. Midwinter and M‘Donnell went in first for Victoria, but except Horan and Bonnor, none got over twenty runs, and the innings closed for 149. Garrett took fiv^ wickets for 45 runs. Massie and Bannerman began the batting for New South Wales. The former was caught the first ball, but Murdoch and Bannerman played out time, leaving the score at 76 for one wicket. Murdoch, not out 33, Bannerman, not out 43. On the : second day the two batsmen stayed together until 150 Was up, when Murdoch was finely caught at the wicket. His 71 was got by more careful play than usual, and he gave two possible chances, to Boyle and Midwinter. After makiDg 78 by fine crieket, Bannerman ■was run out, and the innings closed for 247. Shortly after Garrett arrived at the wickets an unfortunate mishap befell the Victorians, as Bonnor in stoppiug a ball twisted his ankle so seriously that he was compelled to leave the greund. With 98 runs to the bad, Victoria entered on their second innings, M'Donnell and Blackham facing the bowling of Garrett and Spofforth. This time they made a much better show. .Cleeve and Spofforth were well on the wicket, but the latter had very bad luck, three or four, chances off his bowling being missed— two by Murdoch at the wicket. With 274 to win New South Wales sent in Bannerman and Mapsie to the bowling of Midwinter and Allan. Massie, after scoring 51 out of 65, was caught an\TT)!)wTcd,'T!u(.cliTofrytTfr-on^fTRfl'fTni’ batting of Murdoch and Bannerman the runs were soon knocked off, and New South Wales won easily by seven wickets. Full score and bowling analysis :— First Innings. M'Donnell, run out .. .. 12 Midwinter, b Gregory .. .. 17 Horan, c Bannerman, b Gar­ rett . . ....................33 Scott, b Spofforth.. ' 7 . » 11 Bonnor,'c Hiddleston, b Gar­ rett .. .’. ....................27 Rosser, b' Spofforth .. .. 19 Blackham, b Spofforth.. .. 0 Kelley, c and b Garrett .. 2 Boyle, c Gregory, b Garrett 5 Bruce', b Garrett .. . . .. 1 Allan, not out .. .. .. 6 Byes, &cV .. .. . . 16 Second Innings. 1b w ,b Cleeve .. .. 70 c Spofforth, b Cleeve.. 38 c Bannefman, b Gre­ gory .............................129 c Spofforth, b Cleeve 15 c Hiddleston, b Cleeve 13 not ou t.. 1b w, b Spofforth b Evans . . . . c and b Cleeve .. b E vans .. .. c Spofforth, b Cleeve Byes, & c... Total .. ..149 Total.. .137 ] N ew S outh W ales . Massie, c Scott, b Mid w inter.................... v. 0 Murdoch, cBlackham, b Allan .. . . .. . . 7 1 Bannerman, run out .. 78 Davis, b Scott....................5 Garrett, c and b Scott.. 10 Gregory, 1 b w, b Scott.. 4 Total.. .. 247 Jones, b Allan .. . . 1 5 In the second innings, Massie scored c and b Boyle 51, Murdoch c Boyle b Bruce 67, Bannerman (not out) 101, Davis b Scott 15, Jones not out 25; byes, &c., 14.—Total (for three wickets), 273. Hiddleston, b Scott Evans, not out .. Spofforth, c Bruce, B oyle.................... Cleeve, run out .. B 4,1 b 1 . 0 . 22 b . 31 BOWLING ANALYSIS. V ictoria . First Innings. Second Innings. B . M. R.W . B. M. 5r.W. Evans . . . . 40 6 15 ............................... 114 11 41 2 Cleeve . . . . 60 2 28 ................................ 288 33 95 6 Garrett .. .. 98 9 45 5 ................................ 58 7 28 Gregory .. .. 2S 3 10 1 ............................... 124 8 72 2 Spofforth .. 76 6 35 3 ............................... 176 7 79 Jones .. .. 16 1 11 Bannerman .. 24 3 13 N ew S outh W albs . B. M. R.W . B. M. R.W. Midwinter ..188 27 311 ................................ 240 40 50 Allan .. ..276 38 842 ............................... 100 9 44 Boyle (glow).. 2 0 . 1 1 7 .. . . . . . . . . 12 1 2 Boyle (fast) .. 88 13 20 1 .. .. .. .. 14422.26 1 Bruce .. ..100 14 24 ...........................'. 204 22 69 6 Kelley .. . . 1 6 2 2 M‘Donnell . . 1 2 0 7 Scott . . ..180 23 574 ................................ 108 10 56 1 Horan . . . . 44 6 12 A peculiar incident during the progress of; this match is worthy of note. 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