Cricket 1888

FEB. 23,1888. CBICKET i A WEEKLY KECOED OF THE GAME. 29 won the toss, and sent in Shrewsbury and Ulyett, Letcher and M ‘Leod bowling. Each batsman had made 3, when, after a smart piece of fielding, Ulyett was thrown out by Spiers. Read left at 10, and Mr. Newham filled the vacancy. Neither batsman relished the matting wicket, the balls coming up much higher than off turf. Mr. Newham, when he had made a single, gave Letcher an oppor­ tunity off his own bowling, but it was refused. Three times the Sussex amateur put up bumpy balls in the slips and had narrow escapes, all from Letcher, while Shrewsbury also gave Brideson a chance at slip. The result of forty minutes’ play was only half as many runs. At 33 Brideson went on instead of M‘Leod, and twice in his first two overs Mr. Newham lifted balls to leg over the boundary. Several changes were tried, but the scoring, as a rule, was slow, though Mr. Newham once drove Harvey over the boundary. At length, with the board showing 77, the amateur concluded a fortunate innings by being caught in the slips. Lohmann, who followed, was not long in returning one to the bowler after he had given a hard chance at mid-on. Briggs failed to stay long with Shrewsbury, who was becom­ ing accustomed to the peculiarities of the wicket. Mr. Smith started luckily, an easy chance being dropped in the slips. As the scoring became faster, at 99, Drysdale, the captain, tried his hand with the ball, while 5 runs later Letcher was given another show. The latter change had effect, Shrewsbury being neatly caught at slip. lie only gave the one chance early in his innings. Drysdale bowled too well for the last batsmen, and the innings closed for 124. The Juniors fielded well, and there were no extras. The brothers M ‘Leod were the first batsmen for the Juniors. They started slowly, but at length R. M ‘Leod h it Lohmann for four, and then allowed a yorker to pass his bat. Brown, Brideson, M ‘Quirk, and Morris did not last long, and five wickets were down for 43. Mailer and C. M ‘Leod, however, could not be parted, and when stumps were drawn the total was 58. M ‘Leod played really well for 21, and Mailer also showed passable form for a dozen. S econd D ay — S aturday , J anuary 7. The excellent show made by the Juniors was responsible for the attendance of about 6,000 people on the second day. In responding to the toast of the English team at luncheon. Mr. Smith said he was very glad the match had been played, otherwise he would have left Victoria under a mistaken impression as to the cricket of the colony. Punctually at noon M ‘Leod and Mailer continued batting, Loh­ mann and Preston bowling. Each batsman only added a quintette to his score, and seven wickets were down for 74. The eighth fell without any alteration in the total. Drysdale then went in, and as he began scoring freely Pougher was tried, though without effect. Keys, who had batted patiently, left at 97, and Hellings, after a fluky display, was caught at mid-off, the board registering 113 Fair- weather then helped his captain to carry the score to 131, when the latter drew a fast ball on to his wicket. He played safe, and at times dashing, cricket. Of the remaining batsmen Crystal showed the most promise, though he was missed at slip. The innings ended for 158, so that the Juniors had a credit balance of 34. The fieldiug ground was rather rough, and consequently the Englishmen were not as brilliant as usual. Ulyett and Preston commenced the visitors’ second innings, Letcher and M ’Leod again bowling. Both men hit merrily, Ulyett setting the example by lifting one from M ’Leod for 5. The Yorkshireman, though, was the first to retire, a terribly hot return being accepted by Letcher. A one-handed catch in the slips got rid of Read. Briggs joined Pres­ ton, who hit successive balls of Letcher for 4 and 5 respectively, following this performance by sending a loose bail from Harvey, who had relieved Letclier, clean out of the Oval, 6 runs being realised. Briggs, who had been batting patiently, was got rid of at 79, a hard hit to leg being splendidly held. W ith 8 runs more added Preston was caught at cover-point not long after one ridiculously easy chance had been refused. (4—47—87.) Mr. Smith was caught at leg, Pougher was stumped, and when Pilling was dismissed by a catch at long-leg, seven wickets were down for 109. Shrewsbury then came to the assistance of Mr. Newham, and the two were not parted. They punished the bowling considerably. The match was thus drawn, rather in favour of the Juniors, as the Englishmen, with three wickets to fall, were only 97 runs to the good. S hrew sbu ry ’ s T eam . F irst Innings. Second Innings. A. Shrewsbury, c Drysdale, b L e tc h e r.........................51 not out ...........14 G. Ulyett, run out .......... 3 M. Read, c Drysdale, b Letcher ........................... 1 c and b Letcher 21 b c Brideson Letcher ... Mr.W.Newham.cBrideson. b Harvey ............................45 not out G. Lohm ann, c and b Harvey .......................... 2 Mr.C.A. Sm ith, c Drysdale, b L e tc h e r............................12 3 ... 25 J.Briggs, c Spier, b Harvey J. Preston, lbw, b Drysdale Mr. G. Brann, c M ’Quirk, b D ry sdale ......................... A. D. Pougher, b Drysdale R. Pilling, not out .......... c M ’Quirk, Harvey ... c M ’Quirk, Harvey ... c Keys, b Drys­ dale ................. 47 b ... 0 b ... 16 4 st Kelly, b Har­ vey ................. 1 6 c Mailer, b H ar­ vey .................. 4 Total ..................124 E igh t een J u n io rs . Total ...131 R. M ’Leod, b L o h ­ m ann ......................... 6 C. M ’Leod, c Smith, b Lohm ann ..........26 Brown, b Preston ... 5 Brideson, c Ulyett, b Lohm ann................. 0 M ’Quirk, c Briggs, b L oh m an n ................. 7 Morris, b Preston ... 0 Mailer, b Preston ... 17 Keys, lbw, b Briggs... 6 Dyall. b Preston ... 0 Drysdale, b Sm ith ... 36 Fairweather, b Sm ith 9 Hellings, c Preston, b L o h m a n n ........... 7 Spier, run o u t ........... 0 Crystal, not out ... 15 Kelly, b S m ith .......... 0 Carlton, c Shrews­ bury, b Lohm ann 7 Letcher, st Pilling, b Lohm ann .......... l Harvey, st Pilling, b Lohm ann .......... 2 B 8,1 b 6 ............14 Total ...158 B O W L IN G AN A LYSIS. S h rew sbu ry ’ s T eam . First Innings. B. M. R. W . Letcher ...140 11 35 b R. M ’Leod... 80 7 13 0 Brideson ... 15 0 15 0 Harvey ...110 8 23 3 Second Innings. B. M. R. W. ... 110 12 30 2 ... 30 0 21 0 ... 20 2 3 0 75 3 41 4 Crystal ... 65 4 2G 0 C.M’Leod60 7 16 0 Keys ..........£ 0 1 5 0 Drysdale ... 68 8 7 3 .......... 70 9 20 1 E ig h t een J uniors . B. M. R . W . Lohm ann 294 31 52 8 Briggs ... 90 10 17 1 Preston... 160 16 37 4 Pougher 4 1 C. Sm ith 55 B. M . R . W . 5d2 0 4 16 3 TW ELFTH MATCH.—v. TWENTY-TWO OF BOWRAL. F irst D ay — T uesday , J anuary 10. The match against the juniors ended the cricket in Victoria, which was a financial failure, and the team left Melbourne on Mon­ day by the express for New South Wales, playing a match at Bowral on Jan. 10 and 11. Bowral is on the main line between Melbourne and Sydney, about eighty miles from the latter town, and is fast becoming a fashion­ able resort for many city people, the climate being a very fine one, and always cool at night. The ground is very picturesque, situated at the foot of a high bill, but although the wicket (which was a matting one) played fairly well the outfielding was abominable, and, besides being very bumpy, the grass was exceedingly long. W inning the toss Mr. Smith, accompanied by Lohmann, went to the wickets. The second ball was fatal to the Surrey man, clean bowied by a leg stump shooter. Docker was caught at the wicket. Ulyett made 10, when he was taken at third man, and Read was caught at short mid-off. Four wickets were down for 29 runs at lunch time, which had taken seventy- five minutes to get. After lunch, matters became more lively, and both Mr. Sm ith and Briggs hit vigor­ ously, causing fresh bowlers to try their luck. When they had each made 29 both were out, caught at the wicket. Pilling was caught at cover-point, and Shrewsbury was the fourth victim secured by the wicket-keeper, who, by-the-by, stood back about eight yards. Mr. Newham was top scorer with 30 not out, which included two very fine leg hits, one of them being clean out of the Paddock, which is rather large. Mr. Brann was well caught from a hard hit at deep mid-off, and Pougher caught and bowled, the innings closing for 126. The local men started their first innings at five o’clock, Briggs and Lohmann bowling. Wickets fell rapidly. No stand could be made, and at six o’clock twelve wickets had fallen for 22 runs. Briggs was accountable for ten of these wickets for 6 runs. The day was a beautiful one for cricket, and the attendance numbered about 700, half of whom were ladies. A thunderstorm threatened at night, but passed away into the ranges. S econd D ay —W e d n esd a y , J a n . 11. On Wednesday, in beautiful weather, the local men resumed their innings at twelve o’clock, and the remaining nine wickets fell for 20 runs, Briggs taking fourteen for 20 runs, and Lohmann seven for 20. Being 84 behind, the Bowral men had to follow on. Mr. Smith and Pougher opened the bowling, and the whole side could only muster 57, suffering defeat in a single innings and 27 runs to spare. Mr. Smith took nine wickets for 15 runs, and Pougher eight for 25. The batting of the Twenty-two was very feeble. Their totals were 42 and 57. S h r ew sb u ry ’ s T eam . G. A. Lohm ann, b A. E llsm o re ................. Mr. C. A. Sm ith, c T. Graham ,b Rotton... Mr. L C. Docker, c T. Graham , b Cape ... G. Ulyett, c Lewrv, b Ellsm ore .......... M. Read, c F. Cope, b Cape ................. J.Briggs,c T.Graham , b R o tto n .................. 29 Mr. W . Newham, c A. Ellsmore, b Rotton 30 R.Pilling.c Brennan, b Kelly ................. 3 Shrewsbury, c T. Graham, b Kelly... 0 Mr. Brann, not out 9 A. D. Pougher, c and b Griffiths .......... 1 E x tras................. 7 Total THIRTEENTH. MATCH —v. ELEV EN OF N EW SOUTH WALES. The third of the series of matches between Shrewsbury’s team and New South Wales was played on the Association ground at Sydney, on Jan. 13,15, 16 and 17. New South Wales, who went in first on an excellent wicket, started badly, and when heavy rain stopped play for the day, had lost six wickets for 09 runs. When the game was resumed on the following Monday the ground had suffered from the wet, and the scoring was low. The last four wickets of New SouthWales added 84 runs, and the innings closed for 153, Lohmann taking seven wickets for 97 ruL,s. When the Englishmen went in Turner and Ferris bowled so well that no change was required, Lohmann proving to be the highest scorer with 17, in a total of 87. In a majority of 66 New South Wales fared better in the second attempt, mainly through the brilliant batting of Moses, who contributed 109 out of an aggre­ gate of 216. He only gave one difficult chance when he had got 18. I 11 the iratch altogether he scored 167 out of 358 from the bat. The Englishmen had 283 to win, but no one except Shrewsbury, Mr. Newliam, and Pougher made any stand, a n d i^ w South Wales won by 153 runs. Turner bowled 319 balls for 75 runs and 16 wickets, Lohmann 593 balls for 165 runs and 14 wickets. NEXT ISSUE, MARCH 29.