Cricket 1890

2 7 6 CEICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. JU L Y 24, 1890. LANCASHIRE v. YORKSHIRE. Though Briggs, who had strained his leg badly in the previous match at Manchester just a week before, was unable to play, the Lancashire eleven had all the best of the re­ turn at Huddersfield at the end of last week. Owing to incessant rain a commencement was not possible on Thursday, and, though they went in second on Friday, Lancashire got such a long lead on the first innings that, after another heavy downpour that night, the result was never in doubt. The Yorkshire­ men had the good fortune to win the toss, but, with two exceptions, the eleven made only a poor show against the fast bowling of Mold, who, with the wicket to help him, proved al­ together too muoh for the majority of the batsmen. Ulyett and Mr. Smith, the Oxonian, indeed, were responsible for 61 out of 88 made from the bat in two hours and ten minutes. The former contributed exactly one half of the aggregate, and his 45, which took him an hour and fifty minutes to put together, were got without the semblance of a mistake. Mold’s bowling, as already stated, was the cause of the collapse of Yorkshire’s batting. Watson and he bowled unchanged, and his figures were extraordinary, showing 156 balls for 41 runs and nine wickets. Sugg opened Lancashire’s innings with some vigorous hit­ ting, and 36, of which he had made 80, were got before he was out the first wicket. For a time, though, after this Peel bowled with great success, and when the sixth batsman was out the total was 63, only 8 of which had come from Peel, who had secured four wickets. Baker and Mr. Kemble, however, hit away with great resolution, and later on Watson, following their example, got runs so freely that the last four wickets added 112 runs. Baker was batting an hour and twenty minutes, and his 51, a capital innings in every respect, proved to be the highest score of the match. The Lancashire eleven, like their opponents, had been batting for two hours ana ten minutes, and their run-getting it will be seen, offered a great contrast, averaging eighty-two an hour or nearly double the rate at which the York­ shiremen scored. Rain stopped play on Friday afternoon on the completion of the Lancashire innings, and as the ground wa^ heavy, and all in favour of the bowlers on Saturday morning, the game was in almost a hopeless condition for the Yorkshiremen, who wanted 85 runs to save the innings. Even this they failed to do in spite of the good play of Ulyett and Hall. These two scored 36 out of 54 from the bat, and so well did Watson and Mold, who were again unchanged, bowl that in two hours the side were out for 57. This left Lancashire with an easy victory by an innings and 28 runs. Mold’s bowling was quite the best feature of the match. Alto­ gether he delivered 58 overs and two balls, and took thirteen wickets for an average of under 6 runs. Y o r k s h ir e , First Innings. Ulyett, b Mold .................45 Hall, c Barlow, b Mold ... 5 Tinsley, b Watson .......... 0 Mr. E. Smith, b Mold ... 16 Peel, c Sugg, b Mold.......... 6 Mr. F. S. Jackson, b Mold 2 Wainwright, c Kemble, b Mold ............................... 0 Mr. A. Sellars, b Mold ... 6 Moorhouse, not o u t.......... 8 Brown, c Sugg, b Mold ... 0 Hunter, c Barlow, b Mold 0 B ............................... 2 Second Innings, c Hornby,b Wat­ son .................13 c Watson, b Mold.................23 c Mold.bWatson 0 c Paul, b Watson 5 c Sugg, b Mold 4 c B a k e r , b W atson .......... 0 Total ... 90 run out .......... 4 c and b Mold ... 2 c and b Watson 1 not out .......... 2 c Barlow,b Mold 0 B 1, lb 2 ... 3 Total ... 57 C k ic k e t b r s .— B e s t G ood * bear t h is M ark .— A dvt. L a n c a s h ir e . F. Sugg, c Hunter, b P e e l........................30 Barlow, c Sellars, b J ackson ................. 3 A. Ward, c Hunter, b Peel .................11 Paul, b Peel .......... 0 Yates, c Hunter, b J ack son ................. 7 Baker, c and b Smith 51 Mr. A. N. Hornby, lbw, b Peel .......... 1 Mr. A. T. Kemble, c and b Peel ..........35 Hewitson, st Hunter, b Peel ................. 8 Watson, b Smith ... 15 Mold, not out .......... 0 B 11, lb 2, nb 1... 14 Total BOWLING ANALYSIS. Y o r k s h ir e . ...175 First Innings. O. M. R. W. Watson ......... 32 15 47 1 Mold................31.1 19 41 9 Second Innings. O. M. R. W. . ... 28 16 19 5 . ... 27.114 35 4 L a n c a s h ir e . Peel..........24 Ulyett ... 6 Jackson... 12 M. R. W. 12 43 6 0 33 0 1 60 2 Smith .. Tinsley W a i n ­ wright O. M. R. W . 5.4 3 13 2 3 1 16 0 3 1 6 0 STAFFORDSHIRE v. SOMERSET­ SHIRE. The Staffordshire eleven were seen to great disadvantage at all points in their match with Somersetshire, begun at Stoke on Friday last. Though they lost the toss, and had to take the field first, the latter, thanks to the batting of Nichols, Tyler and Messrs. Robin­ son, Trask and Hill, got such a long lead that on Saturday morning they closed their innings with the total 266 for nine wickets. In a minority of 230 Staffordshire had only a poor chance of a draw when they went in a second time, and with one exception they again fared very badly against the bowling of Nichols and Tyler, who were unchanged, as in the first innings. The exception was Mr. Heath, the captain. Going in first he was not out when the tenth wicket fell, having scored 36 out of 81 by sound cricket. Nichols took ten wickets for 68, Tyler eight for 34 runs. Somersetshire won by an innings and 149 runs. S t a f f o r d s h ir e . First Innings. Mr. A. H. Heath, c Palairet, b Nichols ... 5 Brooks, run out................. 7 Marlow, b Nichols .......... 1 Mr. W. H. Calkin, c Hewett, b Tyler .......... 1 Mr. T. Robinson, absent 0 Mr. F. J. Waring, c Trask, b Tyler .......... 0 Briscoe, not out.................10 Burrows, b Tyler .......... 6 Mr. J. P. Ward, b Nichols 1 Mr. B. Payne, c Clapp, b T y le r............................... 0 Vale, b N ichols................. 3 Extras ........................ 2 Second Innings. not out ..........36 b N ich ols.......... 6 c and b Tyler ... 1 c Hill, b Nichols 0 b Tyler ..........12 c Hill, b Tyler ... 1 b N ich ols..........11 b Nichols .......... 2 st Ebden, b Tyler .......... 3 c and b Nichols 4 c Tyler, b N ichols.......... 2 Extras.......... 3 Total .................36 S o m e r s e t s h ir e . Total ... 81 Mr. L. C. H. Palairet, lbw, b Vale .......... 8 Mr. H. T. Hewett, c and b Vale .......... 4 Nichols, b Robinson 44 Mr. C. J. Robinson, c Heath, b Marlow ... 34 Tyler, c Waring, b Ward ... ..........32 Mr. J. E. Trask, st Brooks, b Vale ... 63 Mr. H. E. Murray Anderdondid not bac (Innings declared finished). Clapp, b Briscoe ... 19 Mr. V. T. Hill, b B riscoe.................41 Mr. S. Spencer, run out ........................ 4 Mr. E. W. Ebden, not out ................. 7 E xtra s................. 7 Total .. 266 SUSSEX v. KENT. The rain which prevailed generally over England at the end of last week did not spare Brighton on the occasion of the return match between these neighbouring Counties and old time opponents. Jesse Hide had recovered sufficiently from the accident to his arm to be able to represent Sussex, and on the other side, Mr. C. J. M. Fox’s shoulder, injured a month since, was well enough to admit of his reappearance in the Kent Eleven. The Rev. Cecil Wilson, who had not assisted the County for two years, was also in the team, which included another player, Wootton, who did good service a year or two ago to Kent cricket. Though theKent captainwas fortunate enough to get first innings, and the brothers Hearne put on 51 runs for the second wicket the score was only 76 when the fourth batsman was out. Rain had fallen heavily during luncheon, and soon after the resumption play had again to be suspended from the same cause. When play was once more recommenced the Sussex men had to bowl and field under the double disadvantage of a slippery ground and a wet ball, and Alec Hearne and Mr. Cecil Wilson made such use of their opportunities that in the hour and ten minutes remaining on the first day they increased the score by 84 runs. On Friday morning the two batsmen had added 12 runs when Mr. Wilson was run out. His 46 was an excellent innings, and of the greater merit considering that he had had no practice in County cricket for two years. Alec Hearne,who had gone in first, was bowled by a lob,the only wicket Humphreys was able to get, at 179. For threehours andforty minuteshehad defied all the Sussex bowling, and as a display of patient and watchful cricket, his innings was worthy of the highest praise. The re­ mainder of the batting was only noteworthy for the free hitting of Mr. Le Fleming, who carried out his bat for a very useful score of 41. Going in against a total of 239 and on a wicket drying under the sun, the Sussex eleven were very heavily handicaped. Quaife and Mr. Thomas both played excellent cricket, but Martin’s bowling proved too much for the rest and in two hours and forty minutes the innings was over for a total of 119. Rain prevented Sussex going in again for an hour, and when they did resume, Martin was so much on the spot that by the end of the second day four batsmen had been dismissed, and only 21 of the 120 required to save the innings obtained. Contin­ uous rain during Friday night had soaked the ground so completely that it was impossible to begin play on Saturdaytill close on four o’clock. When it did begin, too, the end soon arrived. Humphreys played with great care, but no one else made a lengthy stay, and in an hour and a half the innings was finished for an addition of 42 runs. Kent were thus left the winners by an innings and 57 runs. In the two innings of Sussex, Martin took twelve wickets for 58 runs; and in the two matches against Sussex this season, twenty-three wickets at a cost of 139 runs, an average of just over six runs. K e n t . Mr. C. J. M. Fox, b Smith ................. 8 A. Hearne, b Hum­ phreys .................67 G. Hearne, b Smith... 38 Mr. F. Marchant, b Smith........................ 8 Mr.L.Wilson, bSmith 0 Rev. C. Wilson, run out ........................46 Mr. J. Le Fleming, notout .................41 Mr. W . M.Torrens, c Butt, b Bean.......... 9 Martin, st Butt, b Hide......................... 1 Wootton, b Bean ... 0 Wright, c Thomas, b Bean .................. 8 B 11, nb 2 ............ 13 Total...........239 S u s s e x . First Innings. Second Innings. Quaife, b Martin .......... 25 b Martin .......... 0 Bean, c and b Martin 7 c A. Hearne, b Martin .......... 6 Mr. W. Newham, lbw, b Martin ........................ 0 b Wootton 0 Mr. J. Brown, b Martin ... 0 run out .......... 5 Mr. F. Thomas, b Martin 20 DMarlin .......... 8 J. Hide, c Wootton, b G. Hearne ........................ 11 b Martin .......... 7 Mr. W. H. Andrews, c Wilson, b Fox................. 10 not out .......... 6 Mr. C. A. Smith, b Wright ........................ 5 c Torrens, b Wright .......... 4 Humphreys, not out 11 c A. Hearne, b Martin .......... 23 Butt, lbw, b Fox................. 10 b Martin .......... 2 Gibb, b F o x ........................ 6 c and b Martin 0 B 12, lb 1, nb 1 Total ...................119 B 1, lb 1 ... 2 T otal ... 63