Cricket 1887

JAN. 27, 1887. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, 18 minutes to six. Wanting 27 runs to win, Briggs and Shrewsbury began the task, and Briggs made the winning hit at half-past six, ^he Eleven being victorious by ten wickets. E nglish E l e v e n . First Innings. 22 Bates, b Sim pson Briggs, n otou t...........26 Lohm ann, lbw , b Anderson ........... 2 Sherwin, b Anderson 0 E xtras................... 2 Shrewsbury.cDonnan b Tom pson .......... 6 Scotton, b Anderson 31 Barnes, run ou t...........23 Read, b Anderson ... 0 Barlow, b Anderson... 10 Gunn, b Sim pson ... 3) Flowers, c Hardy, b Total ...........154 A n derson.................. 2 In the Second Innings Shrewsbury scored (not out) 12, Briggs (not out) 16; b 1—Total 29. C ootamundra . First Innings. Page, run ou t................. ... Arm strong, c Shrewsbury, b L ohm ann.......................... Kayser, b L o h m a n n ........... W atson, b Flow ers ........... Freeman, c Gunn, b L oh ­ m ann .................................. Daniels, b Flowers ........... Rocks, c Briggs, b Lohm ann Donnan, h w, b Flowers ... W eston, c Scotton, b L oh­ mann .................................. Hobbs, c Gunn, b Flowers Julian, c Gunn, b Flow ers Higgins, b Flowers ........... Hardy, c Flowers, b Briggs Perriman, b F lo w e rs.......... Thom pson, c Lohm ann, b Flow ers.................................. Anderson, c Lohm ann, b Flowers .......................... Coughlan, b Briggs .......... Sim pson, b Flowers ........... Nash, lbw, b Blow ers.......... Meyrick, c Barnes,b Briggs Stinson, c Barlow, b Briggs King, not o u t .......................... Extras .......................... Total .........................: 67 BOW LIN G ANALYSIS. Second Innings. 7 c Barlow, b B riggs........... 9 8 b Barlow 0 3 c Flowers, b Barlow 17 5 lbw , b Barlow 0 7 c Shrewsbury, b Barlow ... 1 4 lbw, b Briggs 0 0 c Barnes, b Barlow 2 16 h w, b Briggs 1 2 b B riggs........... 7 0 lbw, b Briggs 1 0 b Briggs........... 11 0 b Flowers 8 8 b Barlow 1 2 b Flowers 21 0 c Barnes, b Barlow 0 0 b Barne3 1 0 b Flowers 10 1 b B riggs.......... 0 0 b Flowers 4 0 run o u t ........... 7 0 not o u t ........... 5 0 st Sherwin, b Flowers 5 4 E xtras.......... 2 Total ...113 C ootam undra . First Innings. O. M. R. W . Flowers ... 152 85 21 12 Briggs ... 32 5 Lehmann, Second Innings. O. M. R. W. ........... 70 6 28 5 ........... 132 16 45 7 3 124 10 38 5 Barlow 156 26 27 7 Barnes 44 4 11 After meeting with every kindness from the good people of Cootamundra, the team left for Sydney, where they arrived on the following morning. SEVENTH MATCH—v. EIGHTEEN SYDNEY JUNIORS. Juniors in Australia mean Colts in England. As they are reckoned juniors till they have been selected for the Inter-Colonial or English matches, some are consequently juniors the whole of their cricketing career, and on this occasion many of the Eighteen were far from youths. They were fortunate enough to win the toss, and in lovely weather elected to bat. The least said of their display the better. Flowers and Lohmann bowled extremely well, but still for eighteen men who have the credit of being good players, to be dismissed for 76 on a fast wicket, must be considered a miser­ able performance. The fielding of the English team was perfect, Lohmann making two remarkable catches at slip, while Sherwin, who is already a great favourite here, kept wicket in fine form. Lots were drawn for the order of going in, when the turn of the English­ men came to bat, and three wickets fell for 22 runs. Shrewsbury and Bates then made a long stand, until, just before six o’clock, the latter was caught and bowled for a grandly-hit 82. The attendance was poor, though this was to be accounted for by the arrival in the after­ noon of Beach, who was given a splendid reception. Shaw represented the English team, and it is computed that upwards of 100,000 people lined the wharfs and streets adjacent to welcome the sculling champion. Sparkes and Cottam, who began the innings for the Juniors, made six runs when a catch at cover-point from Lohmann dismissed Sparkes, Hargreaves followed only to be served in a similar manner from the bowling of Flowers, Briggs being the catcher each time. Whiting and Cottam raised the hopes of their side for a time, and the score slowly reached 24, the high-class bowling and fielding of the Englishmen making matters very warm for the Juniors. Flowers caught and bowled Cottam, Lohmann bowled Whiting, a splendid catch at slip sent back Tindale, Sherwin snapped up Robinson, Lohmann again dis­ tinguished himself at slip by disposing of Cowper; and then with two screaming good balls the Surrey player bowled Donnan and Smith—nine wickets being down at lunch time for 31 runs. On resuming, although the last two wickets managed to add 20 runs, very little improvement was seen, and the innings at 3.45 closed for 76. At five minutes past four Scotton and Lohmann went to the wickets. One run by Scotton was the result of four overs, when the left-hander was bowled off his legs. Bates followed, and Loh­ mann quickly hit three 4’s, making 17, when he was smartly stumped. Flowers was bowled first ball, but when Shrewsbury now joined Bates, a stand was made. The score slowly reached 40, and from this point Bates began to hit in grand form. All the bowlers were served alike, and although many big hits only realised 1 run through so many of the eight- teen being placed round the boundary, he scored many 4’s, besides two magnificent on- drives for 5 each clean over the fence. Changes of bowling were frequent, but 108 runs had been added since the fall of the third wicket before Bates was caught and bowled for 82, only one chance having been given when he had made 54. Shrewsbury was not out 30, made by careful cricket, and a great contrast to the dashing play of Bates, on whose dismissal stumps were drawn for the day. On Saturday, Dec. 4, in grand cricketing weather, Sherwin accompanied Shrewsbury to the wickets a few minutes after twelve, but before a run was scored the former played on, and Barnes appeared. Through some bad fieldingjand several chances of catching being missed, the score advanced to 180, when Gregory, a youth of fourteen, clean bowled Barnes for 21—not one of his best efforts. Gunn followed, and 8 runs were added when lunch intervened. On resuming the 200 soon appeared. Just as it seemed as if a long stand would be made Gunn was caught at mid-off for 27. (Seven wickets for 228). Read, who followed, only made 2, when he was caught at square-leg. On Briggs’ arrival runs came freely, and a couple of 4’s to square-leg by the new comer sent up 260. Shrewsbury’s time had now come, as, when within 8 of the coveted “ century,” he was caught at short-leg. He had played a careful, safe game, but a long way inferior to seme of his best displays. Barlow, who with Briggs had been drawn last, now appeared, and laughingly observed that though it was the first time in his life he had gone in last, he meant to see Briggs out. He kept his word, too, and 54 runs were made during the partnership. Several changes of bowling were tried, till at last Briggs, striking at an over-pitched ball, thinking he was bowled, coolly walked out of his ground, and was quickly stumped for a very energetic 46. Barlow was credited with exactly a score— total, 312. The bowling of the eighteen was fairly good all through, but the fielding simply shocking, many possible and several easy chances being missed. At five o’clock Patrick and Dickings com­ menced the second innings, and although the style of play was of a far from taking char­ acter, they managed to stay. Lohmann and Flowers again bowled, but when the score had reached 25 they were shunted for Barnes and Briggs, and just at the call of “ Time !” Patrick was well caught at point by Shrewsbury, 1—19 —37 being the state of the telegraph-board. There were between 3,000 and 4,000 spec­ tators, including his Excellency the Governor and Lady Carrington, also the champion oarsman, W. Beach, and his wife. A first- class band played some selections during the afternoon on the ladies’ reserve. Heavy rain began to fall at midnight, and continued all the following day (Sunday), obliging the English team to spend most of their time in the hotel, although a few found their way to some friends in time for dinner. On Monday, Dec. 6, the day broke bright and warm, and at a quarter-past twelve the batsmen took possession of the wickets, which they defended in gallant style for a full hour. Lohmann and Barnes commenced the English bowling, but later on Briggs relieved the former, and Flowers Barnes. At lunch time the total was 85 for three wickets. Up to this the wicket had played easily, the ball cutting through on the saturated ground. After lunch, though, quite a change took place. The warm sun had dried the top, and the Juniors were sure victims to the English bowling. It will be useless to describe the plaj7, as it was merely a procession from the Pavilion to the wickets and back again. Fourteen fairly good batsmen were out for 21 runs, and the English team won in one innings, with 130 runs to spare. The display of the rising talent was very disappointing to the New South Wales supporters of cricket. I think, though, that having got over their nervousness they would have given a much better exhibition of batting in the second innings had not he rain spoilt their chance, and some of them might yet be considered good enough to see our English cricket grounds by being selected to represent a picked team from Australia. S y d n e y J unior ’! First Innings Sparkes, c Briggs, b L oh ­ m ann .................................. Cottam, c andb Flowers... Hargraves, c Briggs, b Flowers ........................... W hiting, b Lohm ann Tindale, c Lohm ann, b Flow ers .......................... Robinson, c Sherwin, b L o h m a n n .......................... Cowper, c Lohm ann, b Flowers ........................... Donnan, b Lohm ann Smith, b Lohm ann ........... French, run o u t ................... D ickings, c Barlow, b L oh m a n n .......................... G. Spurway, c Barlow, b L o h m a n n ........................... Patrick, c and b Lohm ann 1 Hume, lbw, b L oh m ann... Gregory, c Lohinann, b Flow ers .......................... J. Spurway, c Scotton, b L o h m a n n .......................... Wales.c Scotton,bFlowers M’Graw, not ou t.................. B l.lb l... r............... s E ig h tee n . Second Innings. 4 b Briggs ...........15 9 c and b Flowers 22 0 not out 11 b Briggs c Sherwin, b Briggs ... 6 c Bates, b Flowers ... 0 b Briggs ... 0 st Sherwin, b Briggs ... 0 c Bates, b Flowers ... 0 b F low ers... 4 c Pherwin, b Barnes ... f5 b Flowers ... 0 c Shrewsbury, b F am es ... 19 b Flowers ... 0 c Lohm ann, b Briggs ... 0 2 lbw, b Briggs ... 0 4 lbw, b Briggs ... 0 7 c Gunn, b F low e rs ........... 3 2 B 7,1b l ,n b 1 '9 T otal ...................76 Total ...107 E n glish E lev e n . Scotton, b Spnrway 1 Lohm ann, st Wales, b Spurway ...........17 Bates, c and b D onnan .................. 82 Flowers, b Spurway 0 Shrewsbury,cPatrick, b Sparkes..................92 Sherwin, h w, b D onnan ................... 0 Barnes, b G regory 21 Gunn, c Gregory, b Cottam ...................27 R ead, c Donnan, b Cottam ................... 2 Briggs, st W ales, b Hume ...................46 Barlow, not out ... 20 E xtras................... 4 Total ...312 Next Issue February 24