Cricket 1888

FEB . 23, 1888, SIvmw/Im-jM ta * 3 fop - ».* I k - 2. 4X CEICKET: A WEEKLY RECOED OP THE GAME. 23 A gainst O d ds . Balls. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. Aver. P e e l.................. 1367 ... 159 ... 382 ... 83 ... 4.60 A ttew e ll.......... 1057 ... 141 ... 244 ... 51 ... 4 78 W .W . Read ... 314... 22 ...147 ... 22... 6.68 Beaumont ... 472 61 ... 138 ... 20 ... 6 90 A. Stoddart ... 433 ... 43 ... 142 ... 20 ... 7.15 Bates .......... 423 ... 41 ... 133 ... 18 ... 7.55 A b e l................. 56 ... 2 ... 24 ... 3 ... 8 Raw lin .......... 446 ... 60 ... 101 ... 8 ... 12.62 W. W . Read bowled 2 no-balls; Beaumont, Stoddart, and Abel one each. A l l M atches . Balls. Mdns. Runs. W kts. Aver. W . W . Read ... 334... 23 ... 163 ... 22 ... 7 40 P e e l......................3,054... 354 ... 861 ... 108 ... 7.95 A ttew ell.............. 2,940... 407 ...6 2 8 ... 77 ... 8.15 A. Stoddart... 649 ... 64 ... 239 ... 23 ... 10.38 Bates .......... 968 ... 99 ... 330 ... 27 ... 12.22 A b e l................. 172 ... 18 ... 55 ... 4 ... 13.75 Beaumont ... 1,648 ... 214 ... 573... 34 ...16.85 R aw lin ..........1,326 ... 186 ... 310 ... 12 ... 25.83 M. P. Bowden 32 ... 1 ... 19 ... 0 ... — W . W . Read bowled 2 no-balls; Peel, 2 wides; Stoddart, 2 wides, 2 no-balls; Abel, 3 no-balls; Beaumont, 1 wide, 5 no-balls. SHREWSBURY AND LILLY- W H IT E ’S TEAM. E IG H T H MATCH—v. VICTORIA . • S econd D ay — S aturday , D ecem ber 17. In scorching weather, with a hot Northerly wind blowing, the game was continued at a quarter past twelve. Lohmann was in rare form and played with great power and confidence. He was well set when he unfortunately pulled a ball into his wicket. The board showed 3— 25—197, when Mr. Brann began a partnership with Shrewsbury, which long before it ended had completely broken what little pluck the Victorians had started with. At lunch time the score stood at 260—Shrewsbury 117 and AJ**. Brann 36. The bowling during the morning had been a great improvement on the day bef< e, except Boyle, who was terribly punishe both men. On resuming, two Victorians were absent, and as no one could be found to field for them, two Englishmen did. Mr. Brann made some magnificent hits, and Shrewsbury was far from idle. 300 was soon posted, and changes of bowling only seemed the means of increasing the score more rapidly. Mr. Brann distinguished himself by hitting Worrall for 4, and then sending the next ball clean out of the playing ground, and neaily over the outer fence for 5—a tremendous hit. This brought on Horan again. Charley Bannerman, the umpire, now unintentionally stopped a big hit to square-leg by the Sussex man, which nearly broke his arm. Some delay took place in consequence, and this was the signal for the Victorians to retire for refreshments, the score then standing at 37*2—Shrewsbury 163, and Mr. Brann 93. On re-appearing, Mr. Brann soon completed his century, amidst hearty applause. More bowling changes were tried, but up went 400. A t length a wonder­ ful catch by Boyle at long-off with one hand settlecLMr. Brann, who retired amidst great cheering for a grand innings of 118, including a 5 and sixteen 4’s. As many as 217 runs had been added since the fall of the last wicket. (Four for 414.) Briggsnext joined the Notts terror, and the worn-out bowling con­ tinued to suffer, maidens being very few. Briggs should have been caught at the wicket when he had scored 25, and again at 33. The total now approached 000 , and just as the clock struck six a single by Shrewsbury caused that number to be hoisted on the tele­ graph board. Shrewsbury at that time was not out 221, and Briggs not out 39. Shrews­ bury’s great score was made without a single ohaiffce. He had occupied the wickets upwards of seven hours, scoring at the average rate of about 30 runs to the hour. He was heartily cheered on returning to the Pavilion. The attendance was a meagre one, not more than 2,000, half of whom were members of the Mel­ bourne Club. The great heat culminated in a tremendous thunderstorm, which burst over Melbourne at daybreak on the following day. Storm suc­ ceeded storm for several hours, the rain being very heavy. T h ir d D ay — M onday , D ec . 19. Monday was a lovely day, a cool, southerly wind blowing. On inspection of the wicket, it was evident for a time that it would cut some capers, and the chances of the English team making the highest score on record were consequently destroyed. Shrewsbury and Briggs took up their posi­ tions at the wickets soon after twelve o’clock, Boyle and Trumble bowling. Several good hits only realised two runs, owing to the length of the grass, and when the total had reached 525 Trumble clean bowled Shrewsbury with a good break back for 232, a magnificent innings, and equal to any of his many long scores in point of merit. Mr. Docker now joined Briggs, and runs came freely. A splendid drive for 5 by the Warwickshire gentleman was greatly applauded. In spite of changes of bowling both batsmen rapidly increased the score, till just before luncheon Briggs was bowled for 75 —a good, dashing innings. Mr. Smith was bowled without scoring, but Preston assisted Mr. Docker in raising the score to 622 before the last-named was magnificently caught from a low, fine drive close to the boundarj', for 48, a very fine, dashing display of cricket. Pougher was soon bowled for nothing, and then Preston was out in a peculiar manner. IJe^lroja- tha~b&ll back_yery^ hard direct to Pilling, whose bat it struck, and glanced iiito the hands of mid-on. This closed thelong inhirigs^ whicli reatfse'd 624. Worrall was the most successful bowler. He got three wickets for 73 runs, Trumble three for 91. M ‘Shane and Trumble started the second innings for Victoria, and before a run was scored Briggs bowled M ‘Shane. Horan fol­ lowed, but soon lost the companionship of Trumble, who tried to hit Briggs to square-leg and was bowled. Worrall, who commenced freely, landed Lohmann to leg clean over the rails for 5, but after making 11 the Surrey man took his bails. Boyle made 4, when he was smartly taken at third man by Ulyett. Harry helped Horan to increase the score to 61, Mr. Smith meanwhile relieving Briggs, and Preston Lohmann. After beating Harry twice, the captain clean bowled him, and served the next comer, Turner, the same. Robertson was quickly caught at slip from Smith. Hastings made a little better show, and brought on Briggs again, Pougher relieving Preston at the other end. After making 10 Hastings was bowled by Briggs, and a smart one-handed catch by Shrewsbury at point sent back Free­ man. Logan whipped in, and, through being very slow at starting, was run out, the innings closing for 100. Horan, who was not out 49, from the start played all the English bowlers with ease, and never gave the slightest chance. The Englishmen won in one innings and 456 runs. The total of 624 runs is the largest ever achieved by any English team in Australia, and Shrewsbury’sindividual score of 232 is the highest yet made by any Englishman in Aus­ tralia in eleven a-side matches, Ulyett’s 149, in 1882 being the next best. The victory is also the most decisive on record, so that this match has brought forth three distinct records between English and Colonial cricket. Full score:— V icto ria . First Innings. Trumble, run out ........ 6 Harry, b Briggs............... 5 M’Shane, run out .........20 Horan,c Pilling, b Preston 12 Boyle, c Smith, b Pougher 12 W orrall, b Preston .......... 1 Hastings, st Pilling, b Preston ........................ 4 Turner,c Brann,bPougher 1 Freeman , low, b Preston 2 Robertson, not o u t .......... 1 Logan, c Bead, b Pougher 0 E x tra s ........................ 4 Total .................68 Second Innings. b Briggs ......... 2 b Smith .......... 8 b Briggs .......... 0 not out ..........49 c Ulyett, b Loh­ m ann .......... 4 b Lohm ann ... 11 b Briggs .......... b Sm ith .......... c Shrewsbury, b Briggs .......... c Lohm ann, b Sm ith .......... run out .......... Extras Total ...100 S h r ew sb u ry ’ s T ea m . Shrewsbury, b T rum ­ ble ..........................232 Ulyett, c Robertson, b Trumble ............. 29 Read, c Hastings, b T ru m b le ....................38 Mr. C. A. Smith, b W orrall ................. 0 Preston, c M ’Shane, b W orrall ..........22 Pougher, b Robert­ son ......................... 0 Lohm ann, b Turner 25 Pilling, not out ... 1 Mr.G. Brann, c Boyle, E x tras...................36 b M ’Shane ..........118 — Mr. L . C. Docker, c T o ta l............624 Harry, b W o rrall... 48 Briggs, b Robertson... 75 j B O W L IN G ANALYSIS. V icto ria . First Innings. Second Innings. B. M. R . W . B. M. R. W . Lohm ann ... 92 16 17 0 .......... 96 16 18 2 Briggs........ 80 11 20 1 .......... 12) 15 32 4 Pougher ... 75 11 11 3 .......... 36 4 6 0 Preston ...64 8 16 4 .......... 48 4 23 0 M r.Sm ith 60 7 11 3 Lohm ann bowled a no-ball, Briggs bowled a wide S h rew sb u ry ’ s T ea m . B. M. R . W. Trumble ...292 40 91 Logan ...116 8 73 Turner ...164 17 72 Boyle 88 7 60 B. M . R . W . W orrall 130 11 M ’Shane 132 Robert­ son ... 196 14 93 Horan 88 73 93 5 43 Trumble bowled three no-balls. N INTH MATCH—v. TWENTY-TWO OF BALLARAT. F irst D ay — S aturday , D ecem ber 24. Shrewsbury and his comrades had nearly a week’s rest after amassing their huge score, and defeating Victoria so severely. Then they went to Ballarat, and on December 24 tackled twenty-two of the goldfielders. It had been raining on Friday, so that when Mr. Smith won the i "ss he decided, as the wicket was drying, to send his opponents in. A bad start was made by the locals, three wickets being down for a single run. Dunn and Baker made a long stand, although they scored slowly. After luncheon they both got out, Baker having batted an hour for 7 runs. Christy and Duff}’' made things livelier, and later on Bradley, the skipper, scored freely. Still, when the last wicket fell the total was only two over the hundred. The Englishmen had an hour to bat, and Messrs Smith and New­ ham were sent in. The fieldsmen were throwing the ball about when it struck New­ ham near the eye, inflicting an ugly gash. It is a singular thing that he should be so injured after having nearly knocked Bates’s eye out only three days before. The Ballarat people generously allowed the Englishmen to play Lohmann, who previously had been a looker-on. Shrewsbury came to the assistance of Mr. Smith. The latter was soon out. Pougher did not last much longer, and Preston was dismissed by a good catch. After being once missed at long-off, Read was bowled. Briggs stayed with the Notts crack until “ Time! ” was called, when four wickets were down for 31. S econd D ay — M onday , D ecem ber 26. There were about 2,000 people present on Boxing Day, which was a public holiday. Briggs made a grand hit over the boundary before he was caught in the slips. Not long after Ulvett’s appearance Shrewsbury was run out. The crack gave two chances in compiling 19. Six were down for 41, and the Englishmen seemed in a bad way. Mr. Docker joined Ulyett, and between them they quite altered the com­ plexion of the game. Ulyett was missed twice early in his innings, but after that he was steadier. The Warwickshire idol played beau­ tiful cricket, and the score rose steadily to 126. Ulyett then lost the number of his mess. His 49included two 5’s and four 4’s. Mr.Docker, who left directly after, played better cricket Continued on page NEXT ISSUE, MARCH 29»