Cricket 1892

50G CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. DEC. 29, 1892 LORD HAWKE’S TEAM IN INDIA. Continued from page 480. After a very enjoyable time in Ceylon, only marred by one disappointment at not meeting a representative team of the whole colony, the tourists, reinforced by Lord Hawke as well as G. F. Yernon and A. E. Gibson, set sail for Madras, where they arrived safely after a pleasant voyage. Considerable grati­ fication was felt at this visit to the Eastern presidency, for the double reason—firstly that it had been omitted on the occasion of the previous visit, and secondly that the Madras Club contained not a few players who had not only made reputations on English grounds but were known to one or other of the team. THE FOURTH MATCH. The match against the Madras Club was commenced at Chepauk on Monday, Novem­ ber 28. Several of the local eleven, as already stated, had graduated with success in English cricket. The Captain, R. J. H. Arbuthnot, played for Rugby School in the seventies and Kept wicket for Kent during a brief stay in England some few years ago. F, A. Currie was in the Harrow Eleven also in the seven­ ties, and has done good service for Norfolk. He was also a good Association footballer. H. C.King, the Secretary of the Madras C.C., was captain of the Marlborough eleven some sixteen summers ago, and has been for years one of the chief supports of Madras cricket. H. C. D. Wedderburn took a prominent part in Oxford cricket. A year or two back his all­ round cricket was of great service to the Richmond Club,for which II. Reynolds also played with success for several seasons. Of the rest D. J. Macfarlan and E. H. D. Sewell will be best remembered in England. The former learned his cricket at Loretto and did credit to his School training as well in cricket as in football, where he was best known, perhaps, as the Scotch three-quarter. Sewell was captain of the Bedford Grammar School last year,and has been very successful for Madras as a bowler. Great care had been taken of the pitch, and as the turf was in capital condition Arbuthnot, the Madras Captain, naturally elected to send his side in to bat. A capital start, too, was made. Ainslie, who went in first with Small­ wood, played with great care, as did Fox, and subsequently Reynolds and King were seen to such advantage that in the end a very creditable total of 184 was reached. In all Lord Hawk6 tried six bowlers, and of these Hornsby and Jackson were the most success­ ful, the former having the better analysis. Reynolds,who batted in excellent form, proved even more effective with the ball when the Englishmen went in to bat. Jackson and Gibson, who put on 77 while they wsre to­ gether, were, indeed, the only batsmen who offered any real resistance, and when the last batsman fell the Englishmen were in a minority of 46 runs. Seven of tbe ten wickets fell to Reynolds’ bowling at a cost of only 58 runs. When the Madras eleven entered on their second innings Foljambe and Jackson bowled, and they met with such success that three of the best wickets, those of Ainslie, Smallwood, and Fox, were down with the total only twelve. Then there seemed to be just a chance of a good finish. It was only for a moment though, as Macfarlan and Rey­ nolds were not so easily dismissed. On the contrary, although Hornsby, Heseltine, Gib­ son, Hall, and Robinson all went on to bowl, none had the smallest effect, and the score was up to 125 before Reynolds was bowled. The pair had added 113 by excellent cricket, and of these Reynolds’ share was 61 got with­ out the shadow of a chance. Macfarlan, as often happens after a long stand, soon followed his partner, bowled for 52, the result of free and attractive cricket. The stand of the two batsmen had saved the game, and the match eventually ended in a draw rather in favour of Madras, Wedderburn carrying out his bat for a well hit 25. In this innings eight bowlers were tried by Lord Hawke. Of the eight Foljambe, who dismissed three bats­ men for 26, was the most successful. The Viceroy and Lady Lansdowne were present on the first day, as were the Governor and Lady Wenlock and the Rajah of Puducottah, who also attended on the following afternoon. FOURTH MATCH—v. MADRAS C.C. Played at Madras on November 28 and 29. M a d r a s C.C, First Innings. F.G.Smallwood,b Hornsby H. P. Ainslie, c and b Jackson ................. ... H. Reynolds, b Heseltine... L. W. Fox, b Hill................. R. J. H. Arbuthnot, b Jack­ son...................................... H. C. King, b Hornsby E. H.D. Sewell, cRobinson, b Jackson ........................ D.J.Macfarlan, b Heae’tine H. G. Wedderburn, not out Major Currie, b Hornsby ... R. H. Lushington, b Gibson Byes 6 ,1-b 4, w 1 .......... Second Innings. 6 b Jackson ... 7 c Heseitine, b 20 Foljambe ... 2 48 b Gitison ... 61 34 b FoJjamfce ... 0 8 b Foljambe ... 13 39 3 bRobinson... 52 11 not o u t..........25 0 3 11 Extras ... 10 Total ................. 184 Total ...170 L o r d H a w k e ’ s T e a m . LordETawke(captain), b Reynolds .......... 9 J.H. Hornsby, c Sew­ ell, b Reynolds ... 6 A. E. Gibson, c Lush­ ington, b Reynolds 27 A. J. L. Hill, b Rey­ nolds ........................ 0 F. S. Jackson, c Ar­ buthnot, b Rey­ nolds ....................... 50 C. W. Wright, c King, b Sewell ................ 13 J. S. Robinson, c Sewell, b Reynolds 2 G. F. Vernon, not o u t .....................13 J. A. Gibbs, lbw, b Sewell ................. 0 G. A. Foljambe, run out .................... 6 C. H. Heseltine, b Reynolds .......... 7 Byes 3, lb 2 ... 5 T otal. .138 BOWLING ANALYSIS. M a d r a s . First Innings. Second Innings. O. M. R. W .............. O. M. R. W. H ornsby.......... 11 1 40 3 ............ 0 1 20 0 Jackson.......... 22 0 52 3 ............ 13 2 25 1 Heseltine......... 13 1 36 2 ............ 3 0 17 0 Foljambe......... 9 2 14 0 .......... 13.2 4 20 3 Gibson .......... 33 5 15 1 ........... 13 4 19 1 Hill ................. 10 2 16 1 ............ 10 1 25 0 Gibbs . . . 4 1 1 1 0 Robinson 8 1 17 1 Foljambe bowled one wide. L ord H a w k e ’ s T e a m . O. M. R. W. O. M.R. W. Sewell ... 30 9 G5 3 |King ... 2 0 10 0 Reynolds 35 15 58 7 1 THE FIFTH MATCH. The match against a combined team from various schools, colleges, and native clubs in Madras, began on the Chepauk on November 30, was completed within one day. Though the English team were successful in the toss, they put their opponents in on an excellent wicket. Still the natives gave a very poor display of batting, and, indeed, the whole side were dismissed in fifty minutes, for 29 runs. The last wicket added 12 runs ! Heseltine and Hornsby bowled unchanged throughout. The former’s pace was too much for the natives, whose wickets fell one after another, no less than six batsmen failing to get a run. Heseltine dismissed eight batsmen for ten runs, taking four wickets in one over, which was a maiden. Hornsby got the other two wickets for 16. Robinson kept wicket to give Wright a rest, and stumped two batsmen very neatly. C. W. Wright, who went in first with Lord Hawke, was bowled at 12, but in spite of the failure of G. F. Vernon and J. S. Robinson, runs came fast and the innings was closed with the total 137 for five wickets, and A. J. Hall and F. Wright both well in. The natives had nothing else to hope for, when they went in for their second innings, than a drawn game, and the question of time towards the finish grew rather excit- Jng. Still Heseltine’s fast bowling again proved too much for the natives, and just before the hour fixed for drawing stumps, the last wicket fell for 46, leaving Lord Hawke’ s team with an easy victory by an innings and 62 runs. As before, Heseltine and Hornsby bowled unchanged. They equally divided the wickets, Hornsby’s five costing 29, Heseltine’s five 16 runs. FIFTH MATCH—v. NATIVE ELEVEN Played at Madras on November 30. N ative E leven . First Innings. Second Innings. H. Lincoln, b Heseltine... 0 cHill.bHeseltine 4 SaVapathy, b Heseltine... 0 b Hornsby.......... 2 RajagopalNaida.stRobin- son, b He eltine ........ 0 b Hornsby........... 0 Appathorai.cH.F.Wright, b Hornsby ............... 6c Hawke, b Hornsby....... 8 P. Lincoln, b Heseltine ... 6b Hornsby........... 7 Soobrailoo, c Yernon, b Hornsby..................... 3 bHeseltine.......... 0 Balakris nan.stRobinsor, b Heseltine ............... 0 b Heseltine......... 2 Amurthum, b Heseltine 0 c Heseltine, b Hornsby........ 3 Strinavasaloo.bHeeeltiue 0 not out............... 0 Rajagopal Chari, not out 5 st Robinson, b Heseltine........ 0 Achuta Menyn, b Hesel­ tine ........................... G c Vernon,b Hesel­ tine ............ 19 Byes..................... 3 Byes ........ 1 Total... ... 29 T o ta l..........46 L o r d H a w k e ’ s T e a m . J. S. Robinson, b Amurthum .......... 0 A. J. L. Hill, not out 30 H. F. Wright, not o u t............................24 E xtra?..............27 Total ...137 Lord Hawke, b Ra- jagopal Naidu ... 38 C. W. Wright, b Strinavasaloo ... 3 A. E. Gibson, c Lin­ coln, b murthum 12 G.F.Vernon,c Achu- tha Menyn, b Amurthum .......... J. H. Hornsby, M. F. Maclean, C. H. Heseltine, and G. A. Foljambe did not bat (innings declared closed). BOWLING ANALYSIS. U n it e d T e a m . First Innings. Second Inninga. O. M. R. W. O. M R. W. Heseltine .......... 7.1 8 10 8 ... 14 8 16 5 Hornsby .......... 7 2 16 2 ... 13.2 2 29 5 L o r d H a w k e ‘= O. M. R. W. T kam . O. M. R. W. Rajagopal I P.Lincolnl5 1 13 0 Chari... 11 1 22 0 i Rajagopal Strinavasa* Naidu 7 3 9 1 loo ... 14 4 27 1Soobrailoo 1 0 GO Amurthum 15 4 19 3 JH.Lincoln 3 0 14 0 THE SIXTH MATCH. The Eleven which represented the Presi­ dency in this match, begun on the Chepauk Ground on December 1st, included no less than eight who had contributed to the ex­ cellent show of the Madras Club against the Englishmen a few days before. The weather was delightful, and Lord Hawke winning the toss went in himself to bat with C. W. Wright as his partner. Reynolds and Sewell com­ menced the bowling for the Presidency, and so well did they perform that at luncheon six of the best batsmen had been dismissed with the total only 91. Soon after the resump­ tion Robinson was caught behind the wicket, and though Hill played in excellent style for his 31, the innings closed for 126. The Presidency team made a very ba.d start, Wedderburn falling to the second ball of Jackson before a run had been made. Ainslie played very carefully for his 16,and Reynolds, after a gallant 34 by free oricket, lost his wicket in attempting a short run, and was caught in the long field. Just as time wras up Macfarlan was bowled with the total 89, of which 18 were extras. Heavy rain prevented any play on December 2nd, and on the following morn­ ing the wicket was so treacherous that th