Cricket 1888

A P R IL 19,1888. CRICKET; A WEEKLY EECOKD OF THE GAME. deliberately using his legs; but they thought it would not be wise to hand over such extreme powers to any umpire.” “ What other evidence ? ”—“ Lord Harris wrote again stoutly supporting Mr. Ellison, as did that once famous batsman Mr. R. A. H. Mitchell, the Eton master. In fact, a great deal of evidence, one way or another, was taken; but there was such a diversity of opinion, and as that given favouring Mr. E lli­ son was not of a strong enough nature we could not advise alteration; still, there is no doubt that if the same kind of abuse goes on much longer something must be done to stop it.” “ What, then, do you consider your chief reason forrejecting Mr. Ellison ?”—“ Diversity of opinion, of course and that among cricketers throughout the country. Had there been a somewhat universal feeling in its favour, the committee would undoubtedly have recom­ mended reform of the law ; but for the present they prefer to leave it as it is, while the M.C.C. will do all it can to discourage the style of play which has caused the discussion.” “ If passed, Mr. Webbe, what do you think Mr. Ellison’s proposal would have led to ? ”— “ I think it would have done away with 4leg- hitting ’ altogether, because when you hit *to leg ’ you can’t be sure but you cover your wicket. It strikes me you would frequently be given ‘ o u t’ to balls which would never have hit the stumps. Again, on a difficult wicket it would be impossible to play ‘off’ balls, and ‘ slogging’ would be the result. Small scores of 30 or 40 would be no gain to cricket.” “ But is there any prospect of the subject cropping up again ? ”—“ If there be another fine season soon, the question might crop up again. Still, I think the habit will be given up. You see these people have never been warned yet. ‘ Throwing ^instead of bowling was discredited at headquarters, and quickly vanished, and this will do likewise.” “ How about these other new rules pro­ posed by the M.C.C. committee?”—“ Well, they are the outcome of our decision on ‘ 1. b. w.’ The object of five balls to an ‘ over * is to save time. Of course, the object of being able to declare vour innings closed on the last day of a match is to prevent the habit of getting ‘ o u t’ purposely so as to win. The Surrey men last year, if you remember, at Nottingham, knocked their own wiokets down in order to win the match. As to the bowler being allowed to change ends oftener, that is owing to mistakes having arisen, through the umpires forgetting sometimes the actual number of changes, causing much friction thereby, as in the case of the Marlborough v. Rugby match some few seasons ago.” “ It occurred to me,” said Mr. Webbe by the way, “ after such a strong feeling had been expressed by the county councils meeting in favour of an alteration of the ‘ 1. b. w.’ law, to look through the lists of the county com­ mittees, and I found that there were very few cricketers among them—a few of the 4retired list,’ certainly. Take Yorkshire, the prime movers in this matter. Their committee is composed apparently of men who have never played at all, although, of course, I have every respect for their keenness and interest in the game. Still, it seems out of place that they Bhould decide what active players should do.” CRICKET IN CEYLON. A correspondent in Ceylon has been good enough to send us scores and particulars of three matches played by the Kandapolla Club in Ceylon. The games were played within a period of three weeks, extending from Feb. 24 to March 13. The cricket was remarkable for the fact that on each of the three occasions P. F. Hadow, one of the well-known brother­ hood of crioketers, who wag a member of the Harrow School Eleven of 1878, made a score of over a hundred The p| the KanclapoUa C M w e n m h above the ordinary rate, and the aggregate of the five innings they played amounted to 1,397 runs for fifty-three wickets, or an average of a fraction under 26£ runs for each wicket. Mr. P. F . Hadow’s contri­ bution to this was 478, with one not out, so that it will be seen his average for the three games was just under a hundred and twenty runs. His best performance was in the first match against Nuwara Eliya. In the second innings he went in first and carried out his bat for 164. During his long stay at the wicket he had nine of his twelve opponents bowliDg against him, and his innings, it is said, was altogether free from a mistake. His figures consisted of eleven fours, nine threes, twenty-one twos, and forty-two singles. In the second game the Kandapolla Club in­ dulged in even heavier run-getting, and their total of 447, of which no less than sixty-seven came under the category of extras, it is stated, beats by 43 runs the previous record for a single innings in Ceylon. Among the names of those who took part in the three matches will be noticed more than one familiar to English cricketers. In the fixture at Darra- wella, F. L. Shand, another Old Harrovian, bowled for Kandapolla with considerable suc­ cess. He was credited with five of the eleven wickets. KANDAPOLLA v. NUWARA ELIYA . Played at Nuwara Eliya on Feb. 24 and 25. K andapolla . K andapolla . First Innings. P. F. Hadow, b Roberts ... 19 F. Coventry, b W ickwar... 27 A.C.Chamberlin.b Roberts 4 J. S. de Saram, c Bulteel, b Russell ........................ 7 R . H. S. Scott, b Roberts 19 H. C. Richm ond, b Russell 2 Second Innings. not out b Moorhouse b W alker ... b Roberts ... b Russell ... b Roberts . W . W . Martyn, b Russell 12 b Moorhouse ..164 14 41 N. C. Davidson, run o u t... 9 R. D. Carson, b Moorhouse 0 J. Marks, not out .......... 8 J. A. Martensz, b W ickwar 0 R . B. Downall, b Roberts 0 Extras .........................12 Total .................119 b Roberts run out .......... 6 b Russell .......... 6 cNock, bRussell 10 b R obe rts.......... 0 Extras ... 20 Total ...325 Nuwa.ra E liy a First Innings. b de C. H. Bagot Saram .................. F. Garforth, c M ar­ tensz, b de Saram J. W. Howard, b de Saram .................. H . Bulteel, b D avid­ son .......... Extras... 1 ... 29 R . B. Roberts, b Cham berlin ............. 16 H. P. Armitage, b de Saram .....................10 W . Nock, b de Saram 0 A. W ickwar, b C ham ­ berlin.......................... 0 C. L. Walker, b Scott 9 T. H . Moorhouse, not out ............................33 G. W . Russell, c Marks, b Scott ... 0 W. G. Sm ith, c Davidson, b de Saram .................... 26 In the Second Innings Roberts scored (not out) 12, Armitage, c de Saram , b Davidson 3, Nock, (not out) 10; extras 5—Total, 33. Total ...131 KANDAPOLLA v. D.M.C.C. March 9 and 10. P layed at D arraw ella on D.M.C.C. First Innings. H . L . Forbes, b Shand ... 6 W . Sparling, c and b Denison .........................18 A. T. Cathcart, c Shand, b Denison ........................ 3 W. Saunders, c Denison, b S h a n d .................. .......... 1 Second Innings, b Shand .......... 7 st Hadow, b D enison..........33 not out ... 29 B. H. S. Scott, c Marks, b Denison ..................... W . P. Metcalfe, st Hadow, b Denison..................... 9 N. M. Hone, b Denison ... 0 C. McCausland, not out ... 24 C. P. Hayes, c Moorhouse, b de Saram ...............25 E. C. Bond, c Marks, b de Saram............................. 1 W. Baker, b de Saram ... 3 T, S. Charsley, b Shand ... 7 Extras ... ... ... ... 5 c de Saram , b D enison..........18 c Kingsbury, b D enison.......... 5 b Shand .......... b Shp.nd .......... c and b Shand... C Denison, b Shand ... b D en ison .......... b de Saram c and b de Saram Extras Total Total v lu7 P. F. Hadow, b Scott 126 J. R . Barclay, c A. C. Cham berlin, b Saunders, b Scott 0 C harsle y ................. 19 J. Marks,c Charsley, A. J. Denison, c Mcb Scott .................. 0 Causland, b Scott 54 R. C. W right,b Spar­ J. S. de Saram, b ling ......................... 0 S p a rlin g ................. 14 H. H. Bastard, b F. L. Shand, c Hayes, Hayes .................. 19 b Sparling .......... 8 R . B. Dow nall, not W . B. Kingsbury, b out ......................... 4 M c C a u sla n d .......... 75 E x tras................ 67 T. H. Moorhouse, c •— Sparling, b Hayes 61 Total ..........447 KANDAPOLLA v. BOGAWANTALAWA. Played at Darrawella on March 12 and 13. K a n d a p o l l a . First Innings. Second Innings. P. F. Hadow, c Clements, b Sparling.........................39 c Fort, b D unn ICO A. C. Chamberlin, c Spar­ ling. b Clements .......... 17 b D unn ............14 J. S. de Saram, c Tabor, b Sparling ................ ... 42 b F ort..................19 J, Marks, not out ......... 23 c and b Par- giter..................36 W . B. Kingsbury, c M et­ calfe, b Fort .................. 7 b Clements ... 19 T. H. Moorhouse, 1 b w, b Pargiter .........................15 1b w, b D unn ... 7 R. H. S. Scott, c Fort, b Pargiter ......................... 3 b D unn .......... 0 R. B. Dow nall, b Pargiter 0 run out ......... 6 J. R. Barkley, b Clements 23 st Metcalfe, b P argiter..........22 H. H. Bastard, run out ... 7 b P argite r......... 7 R. C. W right, b D unn ... 3 not out .......... 9 Extras .........................26 Extras ... 32 Total Total ...301 B ogawantalawa . First Innings. Second Innings. A. Tabor, c Chamberlin, b Kingsbury ..................34 b de Saram ... 15 S. Sparling, b Barkley ... 0 c Kingsbury, b de Saram ... 12 F. L. Clements, c Hadow, b C ham berlin................. 29 st Hadow, b B asta rd ..........19 A. T. Cathcart, b C ham ­ berlin ................................ 4 run out J. G. Fort, c Barkley, b Bastard .........................37 b Barkley ... W. P. Metcalfe, c Hadow, b B ark ley .........................41 c Scott, Bastard ... L. H. Kelly, c Bastard, b Barkley ......................... 0 b B astard. 3 A. H. Pargiter, c Downall, b B a rk le y ......................... 0 lbw, b Bastard 7 J. M. Power, c Hadow, b Bastard ......................... 0 b B arkley......... 0 W . D unn, not out .......... 0 c Chamberlin, b de Saram ... 0 P. Finch, c Scott, b Bas­ tard ................................ 0 not out .. 0 Extras .........................12 Extras.....4 v. 6 ... 0 b ... 13 Total ...157 Total ... 79 HANTS COUNTY CLUB. F ix tu r e s fo r 1888. May 21, 22—at Southam pton, v. Norfolk May 24—at W inchester, H ants Gentlemen v. W in ­ chester College June 4, 5—at Southam pton, v. M.C.C. June 21, 2?, 23- at Portsm outh, v. Sussex June 25, 26—at Southam pton, Hants Gentlemen v. June 28, 29, 30—at Oval, v. Surrey July 5, 6, 7—at Leyton, v. Essex July 16,17—at Southam pton, Hants Gentlemen v. Devon Gentlemen July 27,28—at Norwich, v. Norfolk Aug. 1,2—at Southam pton, H ants Gentlemen v. O ld Cliftonians Aug. 6,7, 8—at Southampton, v. Somerset Aug. 9,10,11—at Southam pton, v. Surrey Aug. 13. 14—Hants Gentlemen v. U ppingham Rovers Aug. 16,17, 18—at Brighton, v. Sussex Aug. 20, 21, 22—at Taunton, v. Somerset Aug. 24, 25—at Southam pton, H ants C. & G. v. University wanderers Aug. 27,28, 29—at Southam pton, v. Essex Aug. 30, 31—at Bournem outh, Hants Gentlemen v. Dorset It is hoped that a m atch w ill be played between Me Australian T^am and Mr. Iv e y 's 51.