Cricket 1885

38 CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, MAR. 26, 1886. I score was 34 for one wicket, Shrewsbury being clean bowled for 20. After luncheon TJlyett gave the spectators a treat in the hit­ ting line. . Some very fine drives of his went far over the boundary, and in getting his 56, altogether he hit the ball seven times clean out of the boundary. He lost his wick t by being caught, at the second attempt, at mid- on. W hilst. Tnnkhur 1]is ^ Clt^ ton only scored 4 singles. Barnes, wno fol­ lowed, soon became easy, and quickly scored 23, before he was clean bowled. (Three for 124.) Scotton up to this time had made 25. Bates, who followed, began hitting at once, and several tremendous drives brought forth great applause. One hit, into the Ladies’ Stand, nearly proved fatal for ever to the beauty of a young woman, only missing her face by about an inch. It is fortunate the ball did not strike her, for it was hit with fearful force, and pitching on a rail, glanced from it like lightning. All the changes of the local men proved fruitless. The Yorlcshire- man served all alike, finishing up with three grand on-drives in the last over bowled, which made his score 101. This included no fewer than eleven hits clean over the boundary. Scotton, who had been in all day, was (not out) 44, a miserable per­ formance, occupying four hours and a quarter. His score was composed almost entirely of singles. At the drawing of the stumps the total was 248 for three wickets. The weather was dull and cool, and though some slight misty showers fell during the day, there was not sufficient rain to stop the play. The attendance was good, numbering about 1,500, who seemed to thoroughly enjoy the big hitting of Bates and Ulyett, which atoned for the tedious game of Scotton. On Jan. 22 Moss Yale was the scene of some extraordinary cricket. The game was commenced at eleven o’clock, and at lunch time (half-past one) another 100 had been added to the English total. Bates only made 10 more before he was caught at cover-point. Briggs was clean bowled, Read caught at cover-point, and Attewell at short-leg, Scotton being (not out) 79, which up till now had taken him six hours and three-quarters. On resuming the game Scotton hit away, and was ably assisted by Hunter, who made several fine hits in his score of 42. At last Scotton was caught by the wicket keeper, as in trying to drive he skied the ball straight up, his innings of 123 having lasted eight hours and a auarter. He was missed four times^twTceat tne wicket,once at slip, and again at point. The grand total was 432. On the Twenty-two going in to bat a collapse took place, wicket after wicket falling. All the local men appeared to funk Peel, and the whole Twenty-two were disposed of for 14 runs. This to my knowledge has never been beaten but once, when Lillywhite and M’Intyre, of Mr. W . G. Grace’s, team in 1874, bowled Twenty-two of Kadina out for 13 runs. Peel’s analysis reads— 96 balls, 7 runs, IS maidens, 18wickets. Bates andUlyett bowled during the short time left to play in the second innings, and at the finish four wickets had fallen for 19 runs. Full score :—- E ngland . A.Shrewsbury,b Lewry 20 G, Ulyett, c Baker, b Lewry .................. . Bares, c Dowling, b Richardson .. ..I ll J. Briggs, b Kotton .. 7 H. Read, c Galbraith, b L e w ry ..................82 "W. Attewell, o Cop1, b S ou th ey .................. 1 R. Peel, run out .. .. 9 J. Hunter, cSouthey, b Scotton, c Forsyth, Thrnshy A. Shaw, not out B Total ..432 Moss Y ale T wenty - two . First Innings. Crisp, b Attewell.. 1Jarvis, h w,b Peel Richar !son, b Peel Wallace, b Peel .. Capp, b Peel .. Galbraith, b Peel.. Throsby, h w,b Peel Cooper, b Peel Southey, b Peel .. Cordeaux, b Peel.. Forsyth, b Peel .. Bateman, b Peel .. Hayter, b Peel .. In tho Second Innings, Cope scored b Bates, 2, Ellsmore, b Bates, 0, Lewry (not out) 11, Graham, b Bates, 0, Forsyth, c and b Ulyett, 0 ; b 6— Total for four wickets, 19. ENGLISH BOWLING. Moss V ale , First Innings. Second Innings. B. R. M. W. B. R. M. W. Peel.. .. 96 7 18 18 Bates .. 32 7 5 8 .. 0 Cope, not out.. .. .. 1 ,. o Ford, b P e e l..................0 .. 1 Ellsmore, st Hunter, b .. 2 .. n M’Court,c Scotton.bPeel 2 .. 0 Baker, run out .. .. 1 . . 0 Rotton, lbw, b Peel .. 0 Dowling, b Peel .. .. 2 .. 0 .. 0 Giaham b Peel .. .. 0 . . 1 Lewry, c Barnes,b Atte- .. 0 .. 0 — .. 0 Total .. ..14 Attewell.. 98 7 18 2 Ulyett 32 THE TWENTIETH MATCH. ENGLISH TEAM v. NEW SOUTH WALES. The next clay, Jan, 23, the English team left for Sydney, where on Saturday, Jan. 24, they commenced the return match against New South Wales. Murdoch, A. Banner- man, and Bonnor refused to play for their colony, and Spofforth unfortunately sprained his foot. Massie, also, haying given cricket up for boating, would not play, not having had any practice. Evans, Garrett, Downes, Marr, and Jones, however, formed a formidable array of bowling talent, and disposed of the Englishmen for 205, on a perfect wicket, moreover, with luck ail against them. Nearly all day they had to bowl with a greasy ball, rain falling for two hours, though hardly in sufficient force to stop play. Bates hit up a grand 66 in double quick time. Barnes played well for his 33, as did Attewell for his score, but most of the other men appeared at a dis­ advantage, probably owing to having batted in the last five matches on fast cocoa mat­ ting wickets instead of turf. Jones bowled wonderfully well, and Evans, considering he had not touched a ball since our last match here in November, also was in surpassingly good form. The rain, in all probability, pre­ vented many thousands from witnessing the match. It commenced soon after noon, and the weather throughout looked so gloomy and threatening that ladies would not risk their toilettes, though even with this drawback, quite 7,000 were present. Had the day been fine, it was anticipated that a crowd 20,0C0 strong would have been present. F ir st D a y , J an . 24. Shrewsbury, having beaten Garrett for choice of innings, of course elected to bat, and at twenty minutes past twelve, with Scotton for partner, defended the wickets against the bowling of Evans and Downes. Shrewsbury got a fluky couple in Evans’ first ovfr, whilst Scotton was some time before he opened his score. At last he got Downes past point for a brace, and this he followed up by hitting him to the off for 4 and again for 3 in two following over?. The scor­ ing became slow, till Scotton once more hit Downes for 3, and 20 appeared. Soon after Jones relieved Evans, and “ yorked” Scotton, the telegraph showing 1 — 14 — 25. Ulyett joined Shrewsbury, and at 32 the latter played on a ball from Jones, having been in over an hour for 8 runs. Why Shrewsbury and Scotton take the pride of place in continually going in first seems difficult to understand, although the remainder of the team consider it an act of unfairness in never getting that privilege. It is a singular fact that they have never yet in Australia made a stand together, and on many occasions, had one of them, with a hitter like Ulyeit, Bates, or Briggs, gone in first, the score would have been 100 instead of 30 or 40. My opinion is, to favour individuals so continually is bad policy, as any good judge of cricket knows. To go in first is a material advantage, as one always has the best of the ground, a bright new ball to play at, besides another benefit of getting your eye in before the bowlers find out the spot. These advantages I consider as considerably in favour of batsmen securing a better average than players lower down the list, and thus I think preference should not be shown to certain men to the detriment of others. Barnes, on joining Ulyett, made a couple when the luncheon bell rang. Rain now commenced to fall steadily, but after a little over an hour’s interval the game was resumed. Garrett bowled, and from him, with the score at 38, Ulyett was finely caught at cover-point for 11. Bates and Barnes then got the N.S.W. bowling in a complete knot. Bates commenced with two fine drives for 4 each, and tens followed each other on the score- board in rapid succession. With 80 up, a sharp downpour sent the players to shelter. Evans changed erds on the game being resumed, but the 100 was soon posted. Marr next tried, but was severely handled, 25 runs coming from twenty balls. Just however, as it seemed that a very long stand would be made, Barnes was caught at the wicket for a beautiful 33. (Four for 128.) Ninety runs had been added during the part­ nership. Briggs made a single, when Jones clean bowled him. Evans, who had again gone on in the place of Marr, next clean bowled Bates for a grandly hit 68, made in his very best form. The public here love to see Bates perform, as they like a free, dash­ ing batsman. Flowers was not at home, and after making 10, was yorked by Jones (Seven for 153.) Attewell and Read made things lively for a time, and the score had reached 185 when the latter was well taken by Garrett at long on for 18. Peel rattled up 11 quickly, when ho was smartly caught at slip. (Nino for 204 ) Hunter whipped in, but had no chance to score before Attewell, who played well for 27, was caught at cover-slip from a bad hit. The innings closed for 205. Jones and C. Bannerman went in for New South Wales, Peel and Attewel) bowl­ ing. One run only had been made when a great misfortune happened for the Colo­ nials, Jones being caught by Briggs at cover- point. Marr followed, and soon became busy. He drove Attewell splendidly to the off for 4, but the scorc had only reached 14 when Peel beat him. Nunn and Bannerman played out time, Bannerman cracking Peel to the off for 4 in something like his old style. At the drawing of the stumps the score was 21 for two wickets. Rain fell all that (Saturday) night, jyad though Sunday was fine till the evening, rain then again commenced, continuing till morning,whenit ceased foratime. On reaching tho ground the wicket was found to be in Next issue of Cricket April 16.