Cricket 1887

MAR. 31, 1887 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OE THE GAME. 43 THE ENGL ISH CRICKETERS IN AUSTRAL IA . Continued from Page 39. On Saturday, Jan. 29, in glorious weather, the game was resumed at twelve o’clock Moses added 10, when Barlow clean bowle him. M’Shane joined Bannerman, and after hitting Bates to leg for 4, M’Shene was out leg before to Brigg3, who had just relieved Bates. (Six for 95.1 Midwinter appeared next, but was magnifLciently caught at point by Shrewsbury for a cipher. Garrett joined the Stonewaller, and soon rattled up a dozen, when Lohmann, who had relieved Barlow, clean bowled him, and served Spof­ forth in the same way soon after. Ferris, who whipped in, after getting a single, was well caught at slip from Barnes, who had just taken the ball from Briggs, and the innings closed for 119, Bannerman, who had been in two hours, taking out his bat for 15. After luncheon Shrewsbury and Bates again opened the English innings, the same wicket as had been used by the combined team being chosen. Bates began by outting Turner for 4, and by some rapid scoring made 24, when he pulled a ball from Ferris on. Barnes now came forth, and a long stand was made. Runs coming freely 50 appeared, but the bowling of Ferris and Turner was so good for a long time, that run-getting was very difficult. The score advanced very slowly till it reached 80, when a big roar announced that Ferris had clean bowled the English crack with a big break-back. (Two for 80.) Shrewsbury had played in his usual safe style for 29. Barlow, who followed, did not seem in any form, and after making 4 was induced to let out at a wide, which caused him to become a victim to cover-point. Read was clean bowled by the next ball delivered. (Three and four for 92.) Garrett now relieved Turner, and Barnes was caught from him at mid-on for a valuable 32. On the departure of Barnes Turner again went on, and immediately clean bowled Gunn. Just at the call of time, too, Lohmann was out leg before to Ferris, seven wickets being down for 103 runs, or 29 on. Ferris bowled splendidly, and secured five of the seven wickets for 39 runs. The attendance was a large one, quite 9,000 being present. The Grand Stand was patronised by many ladies, who at times promenaded the lawn to strains of music from a capital band. The weather holding fine, the wicket (which had been on Friday and Saturday dead and diffioult) was in good order for run- getting on Monday, Jan. 31, and one of the finest finishes ever seen resulted in a win for the Englishmen with thirteen runs to spare. Briggs, who had gone in for a couple of overs Saturday evening, was, on Monday, accompanied by Scotton, and the little Lanca­ shire man soon showed he was in good form by punishing both Turner and Ferris severely. Scotton should have been stumped the first ball he received, but after making 6, was caught at point from Garrett. Flowers played cautiously while Briggs hit, bringing on Spofforth, and Briggs, who had played ex­ tremely well, now made a wretched stroke at a straight one, and was clean bowled. His 33 was top score in the match, which won him two beautiful trophies presented by gentlemen in Sydney. On Sherwin joining Flowers, it was thought the end was near. As on several occasions before, though, he showed that he was not such aready victim as some imagined, and the score was raised to 184before Flowers was finely caught at slip, Sherwin, who had a life at slip before scoring, being not out for a merry 21, a contribution of immense value. After luncheon M‘Donnell and Blackham opposed Barnes and Barlow. Blackham snicked Barlow for 3 and Barnes for a single, which brought the crack New South Wales batsman in front of the Notts man, and a sharp appeal for leg before was decided against him. This was a heavy blow to the supporters of the combined team, and when, in the next over, Blackham was clean bowled, it began to dawn on both players and spec­ tators that a big close finish was likely, as proved to be the case. Jones and Moses kept together some time, but could not score, the Englishmen fielding like demons. At length Jones, who appeared to lose his patience, let out at Barlow and made 10 in one over, 2 to leg and two straight drives for 4each. Getting in front of Barnes, the samebatsman attempted to drive him, but hitting a trifle soon, skied it towards Maurice Read atlong-off,who, running at full speed, just managed to reach it. This was one of the finest catches possible to con­ ceive, but it split his hand between the thumb and forefinger, causing him to have a substi­ tute to field for him for the rest of the day. Turner played merrily for 7, when he hit one up in the middle of the play. Then came the most wearisome time, as singles by Moses at intervals of about ten minutes were the only items for a solid hour, Bannerman actually not making a run during the whole of that time. Bateshad relieved Barlow, andMoses drove him straight to Barlow in the long field, an easy catoh, which, to the chagrin of the Britishers, he allowed to drop. At length, admidst derisive cheers, Bannerman made arun, Lohmann now relieved Bates, and after a lot of tedious play, Bannerman got Lohmann to the on for 3. This was his last effort, however, as the Surrey man clean bowled him soon after for 4 runs, which took him just eighty minutes to make. M‘Shane, who followed, was bowled by Briggs, who had just gone on for Barnes, and Mid­ winter appeared, snicking Briggs for 4. Moses all this time had been playing with great patience, but when the score slowly reached 80 Barnes bowled again, and a smart catch at point got rid of Moses. 7—24—80 was the state of the telegraph as Garrett joined the Victorian giant, and the excitement was in­ tense, every run being cheered from all parts of the ground. At 83 Midwinter was out leg- before. Spofforth with Garrett added a dozen when the last-named let out at Lohmann, and was taken by Gunn at long-on. Ferris saw a couple made by Spofforth, and then Lohmann clean bowled the “ demon ” amidst tremendous applause, and the match was won by the English team by 13runs. The victors deserved all praise. Barnes bowled wonderfully well getting six wickets for 28 runs. Lohmann also was in capital form, his three wickets only costing 20 runs. With the exception of the miss by Barlow mentioned above, the fielding was perfection. Score E nglish T e a m . First Innings. Second Innings. Bates, c Midwinter, b Ferris........................... 8 b Ferris ... ... 24 Shrewsbury, c McShane, b Ferris .................... 2 b Ferris ... ... 29 Barnes, c Spofforth, b Turner ............... 0 c Moses, b Gar­ rett ........ 32 Barlow, b Turner ....... . 2 c Jones, b Ferris 4 Read, c Spofforth,bFerris 5 b Ferris ........ 0 Gunn, b Turner.............. 0 b Turner ... ... 4 Lohmann, c Garrett, b Ferris........................... 17 l bw , b Ferris 3 Briggs, c Midwinter, b Turner ..................... 5 b Spofforth ... 33 Scotton, c Jones, b Turner 1 c Spofforth, b Garrett........ 6 Flowers, b Turner ........ 2 c M'Donnell, b Turner ........ 14 Sherwin, not out ... ... 0 not out ........ 21 Extras ....... . ... ... 3 B 7,lb 7 ... 14 Total ............... 45 Total ...184 C o m bined A ustralian E l e v e n . Second Innings. First Innings. Blackham, c Sherwin, Lohmann.............. M'Donnell, b Barnes Jones, c Shrewsbury, Bates..................... Turner, b Barlow Moses, b Barlow........ ... 31 ... 3 ... 31 M‘Shane, lbw, b Briggs ... 5 Midwinter, c Shrewsbury, b Barlow ..................... 0 Garrett, b Lohmann ...12 Spofforth, b Lohmann ... 2 Ferris, c Barlow, b Barnes 1 Bannerman, not out........ 15 B ..................... ... 1 b B a r n e s ........... 5 lbw, b Barnes ... 0 c Bead, b Barnes 18 c and b Barnes 7 c Shrewsbury, b Barnes ...........24 b Briggs ... 0 lbw, b Barnes ... 10 c Gunn, bTLoh- mann ........... 10 b Lohm ann ... 5 not out ... ... 0 b Lohm ann ... 4 B ......... . ... 14 Total... ... ...119 Total ... 97 BOWLING ANALYSIS. E n gland . First Innings Second Innings. B.M.R. W . B. M. R.W Turner ... ........... 72 11 15 0 ............178 22 53 2 Ferris ..................... 71 7 27 4 ............244 30 70 5 Spofforth... 48 3 17 1 Midwinter 16 1 10 0 Garrett ... 48 7 8 2 M‘Shane ... 12 0 6 0 A u stralians . First Innings. Second Innings. B.M.R. W . B. M. R.W . B a rlow .................... 140 23 25 3 ... ... 52 6 20 0 B arn es ....................... 89 16 19 2 ............184 29 28 6 V'ates ..................... 84 9 19 1 .......... 68 11 8 0 Lohm ann ............. 84 12 30 3 ... ... 96 11 20 3 B rig g s ..................... 56 5 25 1 ............ 28 5 7 1 On W edn esday, F eb. 2, at half-past five in the afternoon, the E n glish m en left Sydney or N arrabri. T h e first part o f the jou rn ey was by steam er to N ew castle, w h ich w as reached in six h ours, and the rest by rail, a distance of about 250 m iles. T h e train left N ew castle at fifteen m inutes past m idnight, arriving at N arribri at half-past eleven a.m . T h e sea trip w as a shaky one, h alf a gale b low in g from th e south, w h ich , lu ck ily, w as favourable, as ou r destination w as in a n ortherly direction. T h e instigator of th e m atch (M r. M oseley, of T ibberrm ah) m et th e train , about ten m iles from N arrabri w ith som e saddle horses fo r the eleven to go kan garoo hun ting, but as it w as raining, o n ly tw o, S cotton and B riggs, ventured to go, and although th ey g ot th orou gh ly drenched, en joyed them selves. A large basket of grapes, brou gh t b y M r. M oseley, quickly disappeared before th e onslaught of th e re* m ain in g nine. TWENTIETH MATCH.—v. TWENTY- TWO OF NARRABRI. Owing to the deluge of rain, which did not cease till about five p.m. on Feb: 3, it was im­ possible to start play at the advertised time on the following day, as the ground at ten o’clock was little better than a swamp. It was ar­ ranged to delay the commencement till half­ past three, and most of the English team were driven to the residence of Mr. Moseley. There they had a practice on his own private ground, had a look at a tame fighting kangaroo, helped themselves to grapes from an enormous crop just ripening, after which they were enter* tained at luncheon, driving back to Narrabri in time to commence play at half-past three. The Eleven won the toss and qrew lots for the order of going in. Barlow and Head came (JUt IflHtj 'llfla on a slow wicket covered with matting commenced the innings. The hot sun had already done wonders for the ground, which was now quite solid, where in the morn­ ing it was under water. Barlow should have been caught at the wicket the first over, but escaping, worried the local men for the rest of the day. Maurice Read, who was still suffering from his injury at Sydney, could not hit in his usual style, but managed to knock up 28 before he was dismissed. Sherwin made 1, when he got under a leg ball and was caught: two wickets were thus down for 47. Scotton then joined Barlow and took up the attention Next Issue April 14