Cricket 1893

G CRICKET: A WEEKLY BECORD OF THE GAME, JAN 26, 1893 was accomplished, the highest score was one of 43 by Shrewsbury. There was no play on the first day, owing to rain ; and the game was drawn—England 95 and 180 for nine wickets, Australians 182. Leicestershire was then met, and beaten by ten wickets, Midwinter playing an innings of 52 on a thorough bowlers’ wicket, 'ihen Middlesex succumbed by an innings and 29 runs, though the Australian total was only 183. Of these Murdoch made 64 not out, and Bonnor 43; and these two, with Giffen and Spofforth, were responsible for ICO of the total. Palmer and Spofforth, as against York­ shire, bowled unchanged through both innings, the Demon having twelve wickets for only 43 runs. The next match was the second game with England, played at L ord’s. Messrs. Hornby and O’Brien, with Barnes and Pilling, gave way to four amateurs—Lord Harris, the Hon. A. Lyttelton, and Mes-rs. W . W. Read and Stanley Christopherson. The Austra­ lians played the same team as before, Cooper and Alexander standing down. Murdoch won the toss, and naturally chose to take first innings. Giffen and Scott played very finely for 63 and 75 respectively; and the total reached 229. Upon England’s batting, Steel, going in at the fall of the third wicket, played magnificently for 148, and was ninth out. No one else made over forty; but there were eight other dDuble figure innings, and the total reached 379. On the Colonists batting a second time, no very long stand was made, Blackham having to retire hurt, and Scott again being top scorer with 31, not out. The total only reached 145; and Eng land thus won by an innings and five runs. Sussex then ran up a score of 396 at Brighton, Mr. G. N. Wyatt scoring 112, and (mirabile d ictu \) Harry Phillips 111. The Australians replied with 303—Murdoch 87, Midwinter 67, Boyle 48. Following on they only scored 144—Bonnor 42, Murdoch 37. In attempting to bring off short runs, iD order to win in the brief time left, three Sussex batsmen were run ou t; and when time was called 33 runs were still required, with six wickets to fall. The Players (a non-representative team, in the absence of the Notts cracks and Barlow) were then beaten by nine wickets, mainly owing to a tremendously hard hit innings of 68 by Bonnor, and the fine bowling of Spofforth. Ulyett batted and Peate bowled best for the losers. Kent had then the honour of defeating the redoubtable Colonists by 96 runs. No county team had beaten the 1882 combination, and only Notts that of 1880; and the victory was consequently one of which the representatives of the White Horse County had reason to be proud. Lord Harris made 60 and Frank Hearne 45 in the second innings of Kent; for the other side M ’Donnell was far and away top scorer with 80 and 19. A draw with Gloucestershire, in which the scoring all round was very high, succeeded at Clifton, undoubtedly one of the fastest run- getting grounds in the country. The county team first scored 301 — the great W. G. 116 not out, W. R. Gilbert 57, and F. Town­ send 40. Then the Australians made 314— Scott 79, M ’Donnell 62, Giffen 48. When stumps were drawn on the last day only two of the Western County’ s wickets had fallen for 230, the Oxonian, J. H. Brain, having scored 108, and W. W. F. Pullen 68 not out. This high scoring was kept up in the next match, the last fixture with England, at the Oval. A. P. Lucas and S. Christopherson stood down, Barnes and Scotton taking their places. The Australians went in first, and, when time was called, had scored 363 runs for the loss of only two wickets—those of Banner­ man and M’Donnell, the latter of whom had made 103. Murdoch was not out with 145, and 6cott with 101. Scott only added a single the next m orning; but the captain kept on until he had scored 211—a grand innings, despite three chanoes. The total of the innings reached 551, the last four wiokets falling very quiokly to the lobs of Alfred Lyttelton, who has seldom before or since bowled in a first-plaas match. Every man on tfye Epgljefi side was put on to bowl, Peate,Ulyett, Barlow, and Barnes being very hard worked. On the home side going in, eight wickets went down for only 181 runs. Then Scotton, who had been in from the commencement of the innings was joined by Mr. Read. The Notts man, stonewalled while the Surrey crack hit hard and freely; and when Scotton was at last dismissed 151 runs had been put on. He had scored 90, and had been at the wickets while 332 were got. The innings was brought to a close fourteen runs later by Read’ s dismissal for a grand score of 117. The side followed on, and had scored 85 for two wickets when the end came. The return game with Gloucestershire was next played at Cheltenham; and after the county had scored 183, E. M. Grace’s share of which was 56, the Australians ran up another immense score. Of their total of 402, Giffen made 91, Murdoch 89, Scott 65, and Bonnor 53. G oiD g in again, the County were all out for 83, Palmer’sleg-breaks taking seven wickets for 31; and the Australians were thus left with an easy victory. A somewhat unfavourable draw was then played with Notts. Two men on each side scored well, Flowers making 69, Gunn 68, Spofforth 54, and Blackham 51. A not particu­ larly interesting match with Cambridge University Past and Present, at Brighton, resulted in a defeat for the Cantabs by 142 runs. Spofforth again made runs, scoring 42 and 12, besides taking 13 wickets for 85 runs. The next victory was at Gravesend, over a team of the South of England, which, lacking Grace, could not be considered representative. The Australians made 358—M’ Donnel 166, Murdoch 59, Blackham (not out) 58, Banner­ man 44, Giffen 33, and Spofforth 30. The South made only 178 and 73, the Demon taking six wickets for 105 in the first innings, and six for 23 in the second. After this came a match with the North—a representative team except for the absence of Ulyett and Hall. A defeat for the Australians of 170 runs was almost entirely the work of three men, the rest of the North team doing scarcely anything. Barlow scored 10 (not out) and 101, and took ten wickets for 48 runs Attewell took one wicket less for exactly' the same damage. Flowers scored 26 and 90* A atrong team of I Zingari, for whom W. F* Forbes scored an innings of 80, was beaten by nine wickets, M’Donnell scoring 20 and 67, Midwinter (the not out), and Spofforth 49 each. Lastly, the South was agaiu beaten in an innings. The two great Australian bowlers, Palmer and Spofforth, wound up the tour in a regular blaze of glory, the slow bowler taking five w icket3 for two runs each in the first innings, and the Demon 12 for 77 in the match. Giffen’ s 38 was the highest score. A match, Non-Smokers v. Smokers, played fcr the benefit of the Cricketers’ Fund Friendly Society, on September 15th and 16th, deserves mention here, though of course it doe3 not rank among the Australian fixtures proper. Bannerman, Murdoch, Bonnor, and Scott played for theNon-Smokers; M’Donnell, Giffen, Palmer,and Spofforth for the Smokers. Bonnor scored 124, and knocked Spofforth’s bowling about in a manner never before seen in England. The results of the tour were distinctly good —scarcely inferior to those of the 1882 team considering the better quality of many of the matches played. Eighteen games had been won, seven drawn, and seven lost. Murdoch had batted, Spofforth had bowled and Black­ ham had kept wicket as well as ever ; M’Don­ nell and Giffen had improved on their form of 1882, but Bannerman, Bonnor, and Boyle had retrograded somewhat. Palmer’s bowling was somewhat more expensive ; but his bat­ ting had improved, as had Spofforth’s, and, indeed, Boyle’s also. Scott had shown him­ self worthy of a place in any first-class team ; but Cooper had been very disappointing. Midwinter had done good work at times, but had not been very consistent, and had gone in too muoh for stonewalling, It is quite un­ necessary to say that the fielcjjng was good. B IT TIN G AVERAGES. Tim es M ost in Inne. not out. Runs, an Ions. Aver W . L. M urdoch 59 ... 5 ... 1378 ..,. 211 ... 30.28 P. S. M’D onnell 54 ... 2 ... 1225 .,.. 103 ... 23.59 H. J. H. Scott .. 5t ... 8 ... 973 .,,. 102 .. . 22.27 G. Giffen ........... 51 ... 1 .... 1052 .... 113 ... 21.2 A C.Bannerman 52 ... 2 ... 961 ,. 94 ... 19.11 G. J. Bonnor ... 52 ... 3 ... 937 .. . 95*.. . 19 6 W. Midwinter ... 46 ... 4 ... 800 ..,. 67 .... 19 2 J. M. Blackham 43 ... 3 ... 690 ... 69 .... 17.27 G. E. Palmer ... 47 .... 10 ... 493 .,,. 63*... 13.12 P. R. Spofforth 46 ... 6 .... 488 .,.. 54 ... 12.8 W . R . Cooper ... 9 ... 6 ... 33 .. 8*... 11 H. F. Boyle ... 38 ... 1-1 ... 262 ..,. 48 ..,. 10.22 G. Alexander ... 5 . .. 1 . 20 .,.. 10*.. . 5 BOW LING AVERAGES. Overs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. Aver. F.R. Spofforth 1551 ... 649 ... 2642 . 216 .. . 12.50 ,J. ifi. Palmer 1247.3 ... 466 ... 2131 ... 13i ... 16.19 H. F. Boyle ... 749 ... 291 ... 1143 ... 67 ... 17 4 G. Giffen 828 .,.. 285 .. . 1613 ... 82 .. . 39.55 W Midwinter 27J.2 ... 116 ... 440 ... 15 ... 29.5 G. J. Bonnor 95 ... 25 ... 229 ... 6 .. . 38 1 W. H. Cooper J. M. Black­ 1S6 ,... 26 .,.. 3-5 ... 7 .. . 46.3 ham ........... 3 ... 0 . 8 ... 1 ... 8 G . Alexander A. C. Banner­ 18 ... 7 . i'4 ... 2 ... 12 man ........... 22 ... 10 ... 31 .,.. 2 ... 15 H. J. H. Scott W. L. Mur­ 56 ,... 9 ... 137 ... 3 ... 52 1 doch ........... P. 8. M’Don­ 5 . ... 0 .. 25 ... 0 .. . — nell ........... 10 ... 4 .. 27 ... 0 .. . — W ICK ET KEEPING. Elackham stum ped 17 and caught 22. Murdoch „ 4 and „4. Uonnor „ 1 (To be continued.) “ W.G.” FOR GENTLEMEN v. PLAYERS. A correspondent (Mr. J. C. Campbell, of Kenmore Street, Aberfeldy, N.B.) has been good enough to forward us a summary of Mr. W. G. Grace’s batting in the matches between Gentlemen and Players since he first repre­ sented the Gentlemen in 1865. None but the games played at Lord’ s and the Oval are included in this list. The matches played at Hastings, Scarborough, Brighton, Prince’s, he r lly com 3 within the scope of this article. Year. 1865—Oval, 23,12*. L ord’s. 3. 34 18C6—Lord’rf, 25,11. Oval, 7,34 1867-L ord>, IS. 37* 1868—Lord’s 134.* Oval, 19 1869 -O val, 43, 83. L ord’s , 2. 30 1870-O val. G 215. L ord’s 109, 11 1871-Lord’s 50. 37. Oval, 16, 43 1872—Lord’s 77,112. Oval, 117 1873-Oval, 158. Lord’s 163 1874—Oval, 22, 14. Lord’s 48,12 1875—Oval, 32,17. Lord’s, 7.154 1875—Oval. 0, 9d. L ord’s, 16!) 1577—Oval, 29. Lord’s. 18, 41 1878—Oval, 40,6^. L ord’s, 90. 2 1879—Oval, 26. Lord’s, 3 1880—Oval, 6, 3. Lord’s. 49,12 1881—Oval, 100,9. L ord’s 29, 2 1882—Lord’s, 4. 7. Oval, 21, 1 1883—Lord’s, 2G, 14 1884 -O val, 35* 65. L ord’s, 21,89 1885—Oval. 22, 76. L ord’s. 6 , 10 1886—L ord’s, 2,19. Oval, 65, 50* 1887—Oval, 15, 85. L ord’s, 24, 49 1888—L ord’s. 10. 21. Oval, 3, 1 1889— Ov <1, 49, 67. Lord’s 22, 2 1890—Oval, 14 7. L ord’s, 4 1891—Oval, 8. L ord’s, 10 1892—Lord's, 41, 7 Total of runs, 3,637. T he Kingston-op-Thames Town Council have agreed to reserve a place on the F air­ field, so that the Kingston Town Club may play ifcs matches there.