Cricket 1887

APBIL 28, 1887 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 91 THE ENGLISH CR ICKETERS IN AUSTRAL IA . B y O ne op t h e Team. From the Sporting Life . Reprinted by permission. TWENTY-SEVENTH MATCH—v. EAST MELBOURNE FIFTEEN. For the first time in the history of Inter­ national cricket, an English team commenced a match against Fifteen of the East Melbourne Club, on their own ground. Why such a thing has never taken place before is amystery, as this ground can boast of as good wickets as any in Victoria, and also can put a team in the field of great playing strength. Seven of the Fifteen now playing have taken part in^ Inter-colonial matches, and Horan, Murdoch, Midwinter, Palmer, and M’llwraith, who were unable to play on this occasion, are members. Boyle, who was elected captain for the club, beat Shrewsbury, on March 11, for choice of innings, and on a beautiful wicket sent in Musgrove and Lewis to the bowling of Flowers and Lohmann. The start was a disastrous one. Lewis cut Flowers for 8, one short being called, and then hit one from Lohmann straight to Briggs at cover-point, who held it. M‘Shane, who generally makes matters lively, was run out by a splendid piece of fielding by Briggs, who threw down the wicket. Free­ man helped Musgrove raise the score to 25, When Briggs, who had taken Lohmann’s place, bowledhim for 8. Rosser, who followed, played freely, but at 41 lost Musgrove, who had played well for 24. This is the same Musgrove who made 109 against the English eleven at Ballarat in 1884. Worrall, who came next, also made 67 in the same match, but after making 8, he pulled one from Flowers on. Robertson was quickly out leg- before, and soon after Rosser was cleverly run out by Read. (Seven for 56, and the club supporters looking blue). Boyle and Gordon were now together, and mended matters con­ siderably, bringing on Bates and Lohmann. Boyle hit the latter for two 2’s and 4, but lost his partner at 84, who was caught at cover- point by the little Lancashire bull dog, as they term him here. Browning came next, and Boyle hit Bates twice for 4, cut and drive. The score was increased to 104, when Boyle was caught and bowled by Lohmann for a capital innings of 30, which wasvery gratifying to the members of his club. Barnes, who once more appeared in the field, now took the ball from Bates, and the innings soon closed, the last wicket falling for 130. This was fully 100 short of what was expected on such a wieket. Scotton, who was put in first, the rest drawing lots, had Shrewsbury for his companion, Cooper and Worrall bowling. The former will be remembered as having been a member of Murdoch’s team in England in 1884. Most of the runs were made by Shrews­ bury, and at the call of “ Time! ” he had made 19 and Scotton 4—total, 26. The attendance was miserable, not more than 400, although the weather was lovely. On Saturday, March 12, soon after twelve, the game was resumed. The score advanced to 35, when Shrewsbury was caught at long- on; Sherwin was caught at slip before he oould break his egg. Barlow then became Scotton’s partner,and a fear was expressed that a dull time was in store, and it was so; at lunch time the score was 61. On resuming Cooper tried, and at 74 bowled Barlow for 24. Gunn came next, and hit Cooper twice for 4, and Boyle tried for the first time. The play now became very slow, till at last Boyle bowled Gunn for 17. Flowers only made 3, when a fine catch by Cooper at mid-on from a very hard hit sent him to the Pavilion. Maurice Read was stumped after making 2. (Six for 106.) Scotton had made 8 runs in the last hour and twenty minutes, his play being very monotonous. Lohmann now came in, and the field spread out considerably. At 124 an adjournment took place for refreshments. On resuming Lohmann began to hit, and several bowling Ghanges took place. As Lohmann h it th e bow ling all over th e field it becam e loose, and Scotton began to score m ore freely. A t length, in tryin g a sharp second run, the N otts m an was run ou t fo r 71. H e h ad been at the w ickets fo r five hours, nearly h alf his runs bein g m ade in the last h ou r. B riggs w as next, and L oh m a n n w as very rou gh on C ooper, h ittin g h im for 14 in one over (three 4’s and a 2), but C ooper had his revenge by bow lin g B riggs rou n d his legs. E ig h t fo r 215 w as the state of the poll w hen B ates appeared, and th e score rose at a great pace. A llee tried underhand slow s, but on ly fo r one over, as L oh m a n n h it h im for 11 (tw o 4’s, 2 and a single). T h e b o w lin g w as changed tw o or three m ore tim es, bu t the m en cou ld n ot be parted, and at six o ’clock th e tota l w as 269 (Lonm ann 99, and B ates 18). L oh m a n n hit superbly and w ith g r e a t .pow er, and m ade his 99 in less than tw o hours. 150 runs w ere m ade after fou r o ’clock , b u t up to th at tim e it h ad taken nearly fo u r hours to m ake 119. T h e day w as cool and pleasant, p erfect alike for players and spectators, but n ot a thousand people visited the ground, another p ro of that all interest in cricket at M elbourne has passed aw ay fo r the present at least. T h ose w ho did com e w ere high ly delighted w ith th e latter part of th e day’s play, and it is certa in that such cricketers as B arlow , S cotton, or B anner­ m an are n ot appreciated b y the M elbourne pu blic, w h o are alw ays delighted at their dow n fall, bu t w hen R ead, B ates, M ’D onnell, B riggs, or L oh m a n n are out, th ey generally express regret, and no one can w on der at it, as it is terrible w ork to w atch such u neven tful cricket as generally m arks th e play o f the above trio. Sunday, M arch 13, w as a beau tifu l day, and M onday m orn in g broke fine an d h ot. T h e w icket was as good as ever, bu t n ot m ore than a couple o f hun dred spectators put in an appearance to see th e m atch , w h ich was resum ed soon after tw elve o ’clock . L oh m a n n quickly m ade the required run to com plete his century, bu t after fou r byes h ad been run he played one back to the bow ler, w h o h eld it. B arnes could not bat through th e in ju ry to his han d bein g still painful, and th e in n in gs closed fo r 274. W ith 144 runs to save a one in n in gs’ defeat, th e clu b began th e second innings w ith M ’ Shane and F reem an, L oh m ann and Flow ers bow ling. W ith the score at 3 M ’Shane was out, and w hen 20 runs w ere registered Bates took th e ball from F low ers. S ix w ickets w ere dow n for 68, but a lon g stand b y M usgrove and G ordon, w ho scored 59 and 56 respectively, carried th e score to 171, w hen M usgrove w as finely cau gh t at lon g-off b y R ead. A ll hopes o f p layin g the gam e ou t w ere n ow over, and w h en “ T im e ” w as ca lled nine w ickets w ere dow n fo r 208, W orra ll h ittin g freely fo r his score. T h e m atch w as draw n in fa v o u r of E n gla n d. E ast M elbourne F if te e n . First Innings. Second Innings. H. Musgrove, c Lohmann, b Briggs ....................... 24 c Read, b....L oh ­ m ann ...........59 P. Lewis, c Briggs, b L oh ­ mann ................................ 2 b Bates ... 0 P. G. M’Shane, run out ... 0 c Bates, b....L oh­ m ann ........... 2 G. Freeman, b Br.ggs ... 8 c Shrewsbury, b Bates ... ... 13 J. Rosser, run out .........13 b Briggs .......................18 J. W orrall, b Flowers ... 8 c Briggs, b...Loh­ mann ...........28 W . R. Robertson, lbw, b Briggs.................................... 0 H. F. Hoyle, c and b L oh ­ mann ......................................30 b Bates ............ 0 G. Gordon, c Briggs, b Bates ... ..........................14 cS co tto n ,b L o h ­ m ann ...........56 G. Browning, c Read, b L oh m a n n ..............................36 run out ........... 20 W. Brown, c Lohm ann, b Barnes ............................ 2 C. G. Allee, c Shrewsbury, b Lohm ann .................... 1 not out ............ 5 J. Healey, run out ........... 2 W. H. Cooper, not out ... 3 W. Duffy, lbw, b Scotton 3 B 3,1 b 1 ................... 4 B 5,1 b 1, w 1 7 E ngland . W. Scotton, run out 71 A. Shrewsbury, c Gordon,bRobertson 26 M. Sherwin, c Duffy, b R ob ertson ........... 0 R. G. Barlow, b Cooper ...................24 W . Gunn, b Boyle ... 17 W . Flowers, c Cooper, b Boyle ................... 3 J. M .Read, st Lewis, b Boyle ................... 2 G. Lohmann, c and b Duffy ....................100 J. Briggs, b Cooper 4 W . Bates, not out ... 18 W . Barnes, absent, h u rt............................ 0 ... ... ** Total ... ...27ty- BOW LING ANALYSIS. E ast M elbou rn e . First Innings. B. M. R. W. Lohm ann ...148 27 34 4 ...1*6 26 32 ...100 17 27 ... 12 1 6 ... 28 2 19 ... 52 7 8 ... 4 1 0 Second Innings. Flowers Briggs ... B arlow ... Bates ... Barnes ... Scotton... B. 104 56 54 60 M. R .W . 68 82 15 19 104 17 19 R ea d . 64 68 2 20 0 Briggs bowled a wide. E ngland . Total ... ... 130 Total ...208 B. M. R. W. B .M. R . W W orrall ... 76 10 29 0 |Duffy... 182 27 46 1 Cooper ...108 7 70 2 Boyle... 112 16 25 3 M 'Shane ... 88 8 36 0 A lle e .,. 4 0 11 0 Robertson 128 11 48 2 | The same evening the English team left for Sandhurst to play against Eighteen of the District, and arrived there soon after eleven o’clock. They were met by the president of the club and many others. The president^ in a few hearty words, welcomed the team to Sandhurst. The toast was drunk in cham­ pagne, and honoured with three cheers. Lillywhite responded for the Englishmen. TWENTY-EIGHTH MATCH.—v. EIGH­ TEEN OF SANDHURST. On Tuesday, March 15, in beautiful weather, at twenty minutes past twelve, the eleven having, as usual in Victoria, lost the toss, took the field, quickly followed by the two local batsmen who had the honour of going in fir6t. The start was a disastrous' one, as, before a run was made, a catch at the wicket saw the first Sandhurst man wend his way to the pavilion. A good stand was then made, and the score had reached 40 before the next wicket fell. This total was increased to 66 at lunch time. On resuming Briggs took the ball from Lohmann, who had bowled till luncheon, and before another run was made, G. Mackay was caught at the wicket for a well-made 31. Slow play followed for some time, and seven wickets were down for 97. Edwards, one of the best batsmen in Victoria, then came in, and from this point the English bowlers had a bad time of it. At 113 Briggs bowled Beswick, who had been in a long time for 23. A. Mackay, the secretary of the club, came next, and the score was carried to 140 by quick scoring, when Edwards was out leg before. Boyle, so well known in England in connection with the first four Australian teams, who hails from Sandhurst, now came in, amidst great applause, but lost his partner at 153, Mackay being bowled by Briggs for agood innings of 31. The next man retired for a duck. (Eleven for 159.) On Willis joining Boyle the stand of the innings was made, ana in spite of changes of bowling the score rose to 200. It was strange that from luncheon time none of the English bowlers had suc­ ceeded in taking a wicket except Briggs, who had bowled extremely well, and secured the whole of the nine wickets; Lohmann, Barlow, Bates, and Flowers had all bowled in vain for more than three hours. Briggs now getting tired, was hit a bit, and Maurice Read bowled