Cricket 1893

JAN 26, 1693 CRICKET- A WEEKLY BECORD Cu? THE GAME, 5 last Spofforth bowled Lyttelton. Steel came —and went, four runs later, caught and bowled. Maurice Read took his placo, but knew nothing about one ball from the Demon, ani was clean bowled. Barnes followed, and made a two. He and Lucas ran three byes ; then Lucas played od , after a long steady iunings, and C. T . Studd reigned in his stead Immediately afterwards a ball went off Barnes’ glove into the wicket-keeper’s hands; and Peate, the last man, came in, prepared to do o *die. Ten runs were wanted. Peate slogged a ball from Boyle to square-leg for two, attempted to do the same with another atd was bjwled. Australia had won the match by seven runs! Matters were made rather warm for Peate in the pavilion. “ Why didn’t you block every ball, and wait for Mr. Studd to get the runs,” angrily enquired a dozen voices ‘ Very sorry, gentlemen,” said Peate, with a wise shake of his head. MVery sorry, gentle­ men, but I couldn’t trust Mr. Studd, so I had to try it myself!” C. T. Studd’s average up to that period of the season was, in all first- class matches, about 34, 8nd he had already made two centuries against the Australians; while Peate would never have been played in any good team for the sake of his batting, which was very so-so ! A draw with the United Eleven—a stronger team this time—at Tunbridge Wells followed, the Australians going down so fast before the bowling of W. G. Grace and Parnham in their see rad innings that they only made 49. Then Notts was well beaten, for the first time by an Australian team, Murdoch scoring 98 in two innings, and Percy M’Donnell 66. A match with I Zingari at Scarborough followed. The Australians scored 153—Massie just one- third—then I Zingari made 279, G. B. Studd 83. Then the Australians went in again. Murdoch scored 53, and M’Donnell 42 ; and the total was 256 for six wickets when Bonnor joined Bannerman at a quarter past four on the Saturday afternoon. The two stayed in until stumps were drawn, Bounor hitting magnificently. The total was then 423, Bannerman, (not out) 120, Bonnor (not out) 122. Shaw’s team, which had visited Australia the winter before, next succumbed at Holbeck, Boyle taking twelve wickets for 52 runs in one match, and Spofforth five for 15 in the second innings. Then came the fourth and last defeat, at the hands of the North of England. Barlow made 48, and Lockwood 53; then, at the tail-end, Pilling, Crossland and Peate bacted surprisingly well, and the total reached 245. The Australians could fn ly make 110 and 162, and Hornby and Barlow knocked off the runs required to win. Another match with Shaw’s team, at the Oval, ended in a draw, much in favour of the Englishmen, for whom Scotton and Barlow batted, and Peate bowled, with great success. Eleven of Scotland, at Glasgow, were defeated in an innings, though the Colonists only made 155. Spofforth’ s bowling was deadly — eight for 11 in the first iunings, six for 47 in the seoond. The winning of a match at Harrogate against a somewhat scratch eleven ended the tour. It had been a wonderfully successful one, twenty-three matches won, eleven drawn, only four lost—truly a wonderful record! Every member of the team except Jones had been a real success : and even he had batted well sometimes. The averages of the four chief bowlers are phenomenal; of the batsmen, only two failed to gain a double­ figure average, and eight had really good figures. The fielding was as good as ever. BATTIN G AVERAGES. T im e3 Most ia Inns, not out Run*. an Inns. Aver. W. L. Murdoch 61 .... 5 ... 17H ... 286* ... 30.31 T. Horan ........... 52 ,.. 5 ... 1175 ... 141* ... 25 H . H. Massie ... 61 .... 4 ... 1405 ... 206 ... 24.37 A. C. Rannerman 56 .... 2 ... 119? .... 120* ... 22.8 G. J. Bonnor ... 47 ... 7 ... 815 ... 122* ... 20.15 G. Giffen ........... 52 ... 4 ... 873 ... 81 ... 18.9 P. S. M’Donnell 55 ... 3 ... 9)> ... 82 ... 17.10 J. M. Blackham 43 ... 7 ... 612 ... 62 ... 17 S. P. Jones.......... 3? , ... 1 ... 373 ... 59 ... 12.3 T . W. Garrett ... 48 ... 6 ... 496 ... 59 ... 11.34 G. E. Palm er ... 32 ... 8 ... 266 ... 35 ... 11.2 H. P . Boyle........... 45 .... 32 ... 300 .,,. i>9* ... 9.12 P . R. Spofforth .. 45 ... 11 ... 282 ... 37 ... 8.10 C. W. B eal.......... 2 , ... 0 ... 5 .. 5 ... 2.1 BOW LING AVERAG ES. Overs. Mdns. Runs. W kts. Aver H. P. Boyle .. 1203.2 .... 525 ... 1 83 ..,. 144 ..,. 11.96 F. R. Spofforth 1598.3 ..,.7 0 ... 2252 ..,. 188 .... 12.26 G. E. Palmer 1192 2 . .. 511 .... 1731 .... 138 ..,. 12.75 T. W. Garrett 1209.3 ..,. 488 ... 1759 ... 128 ..,. 13.95 G. Giffen ... 386.3 .... 122 ... 728 ... 82 .. . 22.24 A C.Bannerrr.an 67 .. 26 .,.. 112 4 ... 28 P. S. M’Donnell 36 .... 11 ..,. eo .,,. 2 ..,. 30 W. L. Murdoch 16 ... 3 ... 47 . .. 1 . .. 47 S. P. Jones ... 40 .,.. 10 ... 85 .... 1 ... 85 H. H. Matsie .. 6 ., .. 1 .. . 18 W ICKET-KEEPING. Blackh^m stumped 17 and caught 23 Murdoch „ 4 ,, 5 Bonnor 1 IV .—THE TEAM OF 1884. There were four alterations in the 1884 team from that which had preceded it, T. W. Garrett, S. P. Jones, T. Horan, and H. H. Massie staying at home, and their places being filled by W. Midwinter, H. J. II. ticott, W. H. Cooper, and G. Alexander. A glance at what Massie, Horan, and Garrett did in 1832, as revealed by the averages, wi'l show how hard it would have been to adequately fill their places; and we may as well own at once that the change had entirely the effect of weakening the combination, though Mid­ winter and Scott played well. Alexander was manager, and seldom played; and Cooper, whose bowling hand was injured, was practi­ cally of no use whatever. Murdoch was again captain; and this, his third team, led off, as each of the others had done, with a decisive victory, This was over Lord Sheffield’s Eleven, a thoroughly first- class team, at Sheffield Park; and the margin in favour of the Australians was an innings and six runs. Palmer and Giffen bowled unchanged ; and Bannerman—who, during this tour, almost invariably had M’Donnell first with him at the wickets, vice Massie, absent—scored a fine steady innings of 91. The strongest team which Oxford Univer­ sity has had for a long time was met in the next match, and the Colonists had to put up with a seven wickets defeat. Midwinter did best for them, with 65 runs in two innings; and of the Oxonians, M. C. Kemp scored 63, not out, in the second innings, and T. C. O’Brien 92 in the fiztt. H. O. Whitby bowled well, aad B. E. Nicholls made no fewer than seven catches at slip. Then Surrey was defeated by eight wickets, Scott being far and away the highest scorer in the match with 80 for once out. The next game was a very remarkable one. A strong team of M.C.C. and Ground won the toss, went in, and were not all out until 481 runs had beea sc: red. W . G. Grace made 101, A. G. Steel 134, Barnes 105, not out, and T. C. O’Brien 72. Grace and Steel put on 124 runs while together; Steel and Barnes 114; and Barnes and O’Brien 122 The Australians made 181 (M’Donnell 64, including a hit clean out of thegroundand another onto thepavilion) and 182 (Murdoch 58, not out), and were thus beaten by an innings and 115 runs. Mid- w’inter had a bad hand, and could not bat in either innings. A very small scoring match against one cf those scratch teams somewhat misleadingly called Elevens of England followed at Bir­ mingham, and lasted only one day. Spofforth took 14 wickets for 37 runs ; and his bowling, tooth er with M ’Donnell’s hitting for 21 and 17, enabled the Australians to pull through by four wickets. The next match, against a very strong team of the Gentlemen of Eng­ land, was an exact reversal of this decision Spofforth was disabled early in the game, and could neither bowl nor bat For the English side A. W. Ridley made 68, G. F. Vernon 58, and A. G. Steel 44, and small scores brought the total to 277. The Australians made 133, Blackham scoring 42 and Bonnor 44; and then, following on, did much better, with 269, Scott playing a fine innings of 87, not out, and Palmer batting pluckily for 47. The English wickets fell somewhat fast, and a rot seemed to have set in ; but Steel and E. J. Diver stemmed the tide of disaster and pulled their side through without further loss. Derbyshire was beaten in the usual easy fashion—an innings and 40 runs this time— Palmer, 57, not out. the largest, and Alexan­ der, 1, the smallest contributor to a t tal of 273. Frank Sugg made 52 in the first innings of the county. Spofforth had twelve wickets for 83 runs. A draw with Lancashire, very decidedly in favour of the visitors, followed. The Austra­ lians in their second innings scored 315 for eight wickets. Giffen played a fine innings of 113, and also bowled best, accomplishing the hat trick. Murdoch made 39 and 64, Bannerman 36 and 44, and M’Donnell 49 and 3. A bowlers’ match at Bradford then re­ sulted in the defeat of Yorkshire by three wickets. Palmer and Spofforth bowled un­ changed, and Peate, for the County, had ten wickets for 62. Singularly enough, the next match, with Notts, was also won by three wickets, though the scoring ruled higher. The top score on either side, however, was Blackham’s 46 not out, made at a time when runs were more urgently needed than at any other period of the match. The Cambridge University eleven had now to suffer defeat, for the first time from an Aus­ tralian team. Going in first, the University made 204 (H. W. Bainbrid^e 61, J. E. K. Studd 59). The Australiaus scored 378, Murdoch making a chanceless 132, Palmer playing a not out innings of 68, and Bonnor scoring 44. Then Palmer and Spofforth dis­ missed the Cantabs for 93, and the match was won by an innings and 81 runs. The next match produced a complete re­ versal of form, the North of England winning by an innings and 22 rues. None of the Australians batted well, Peate’s bowling having ten wickets for 51. For the North Mr. A. N. Hornby scored 94, and Barnes 67, out of a total of 220. An exciting match with Liverpool and District was then won by one wicket. A. G. Steel batted best, with 72 and 29. Boyle and Palmer played havoc with the Liverpool wickets in the second innings, which only amounted to 54 : and a timely stand by Murdoch and Blackham won the match. The return match with the Gentlemen was next played. Murdoch won the toss; and the batting displays of Blackham (69), and Midwinter (GO, not out), were the chief features of an innings of 229. The Gentle­ men scored 261, W . G. Grace making 107. Then the Colonials put together 219, Banner­ man 48, Midwinter (again the not out) 47. 188 runs were wanted to w in ; but the Amateurs could only reach 141, Blackham stumping the last three batsmen. The Piayers were next met at Sheffield. They won the toss and made 230, B; rlow and Ulyett scoring 114 while together. The Australians scored 189 (Bonnor 70). Then the pros, scored 131; and the Colonists hit off the runs required to win for the loss of four wickets. This result was almost en­ tirely due to Bannerman and Bonnor, who, in widely different styles, got nearly all the runs in the second innings. Alec scored 48, and the giant 95. The English team was weakened by the absence of the Notts players, who refused to accept the terras offered by the Yorkshire committee. A so-called eleven of hngland—in reality, a somewhat scratch team of Notts and York­ shire cricketers—accomplished a big per­ formance at Huddersfield. Scotton played a grand, though not brilliant, innings of 134; Mr. E. T. Hirst, the old Oxonian, made 71; William Attewell scored 84, and Irwin Grim- shaw 77. Scotton was in while 397 runs were scored. W ith Mr. Hirst he made 106 for the third wicket; with Attewell 133 for the fourth; and with Grimshawl36 for the sixth. The Australians scored 175 and 124 for seven wickets—M’Donnell 46 in the first innings, Scott 5Cin the second. The first of three test games against Eng­ land followed at Manchester. The old country was represented by Messrs. W. G. Grace, A . N. Hornby, A. G. Steel, A. P. Lucas, and T. C. O'Brien, with Ulyett, Shrewsbury, Barnes, Barlow, Pilling, and Peate. Played on a slow wicket, the game was not an especially interesting one ; and, while no very remarkable bowling feat