Cricket 1893

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U rt of F x Im oa tfp llM ttN i, pot* tn t Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 41, ST. ANDREWS HILL, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, JULY 6 th , 1893. M im (Snssip, £ ba abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— . __ HamUf O n the excellent form they have shown so far, it seems somewhat of a pity that the Malvern College eleven have not an opportu­ nity of testing their capacity against some of the more influential schools. Their record up to date is quite an exceptional one, showing eight matches with five wins and three drawn games. They have beaten East Gloucester­ shire,Worcestershire,War wickshireCrusaders, Sherborne School,and Birmingham,and drawn with Exeter College, Trinity College, and Old Malvernians. Their victories have been due chiefly to their out-cricket. Lowe and Nevile, both fast bowlers, have done some really won­ derful things on the hard aud true wickets that have prevailed this summer. T. B. R h o d e s a good judge describes as the best soh3ol wicket-keeper he has ever seen. As the Malvern captain goes up to Cambridge, he should be fairly sure of his blue there next year. It will interest the followers of public school cricket to know that besides Rhodes, who is going toEmmanuel College in October, Cambridge next year will be able to claim the services d£W .W . Lowe,who is bound.for Pem­ broke College. The other fapt bowler of Mal­ vern, G. H.Nevile, who is leaving at the end of this season, is unfortunately not destined for either University. C. J. Burnup, I may add, will be the Malvern captain for 1894. U p p in g h a m S c h o o l seems to have a young cricketer of more than ordinary promise in C. E. M. Wilson. At all events, his performance just lately has been quite out of the common. His batting in the last four matches shows an aggregate of 517, and, what is more—a record, I should fancy, with few, if any, parallels in School cricket—three successive scores of over a hundred. His innings in the four matches referred to are as under. June 7 v. Liverpool C lu b ......... 97 ... 5 ... 102 June 12 v. G. bird’s Eleven ... 1.7 ... — ... 1j7 •Iune^2 v. O ld.boys .................J45 ... — ... 145 Jane 28 v. Repton School .........183* ... — ... 183 The above gives a total of 547 for four completed innings, or an average of 136. In addition to his exceptional success with the bat, he has obtained thirty-five wickets at a cost of eight runs apiece. T h e rumour that C. M. Wells, of the Cam­ bridge Eleven, is going to play for Middlesex, is, I am able to say authoritatively, incorrect. On the contrary, he will be again seen in the Surrey Eleven, for which he played once last year, and of which he would have been a regular member after the University match had his engagements permitted. He will form one of the Surrey team to oppose Somersetshire at the Oval next Thursday, and it is hoped will be available for the remaining matches on the Surrey programme. T he performance of W. Brown, at Birken­ head Park this week, in carrying his bat twice through the innings for Staffordshire v. Cheshire, recals the greatest achievement of tbe kind ever recorded in an important mat^h. I am referring, of course, to the late Henry Jupp’s memorable feat for Surrey against Yorkshire at the Oval in August in 1674, Jupp’s scores on that occasion were 43 and 109, and as Surrey had to follow on he actually saw twenty batsmen in succession dismissed without losing his wicket. Considering the character of the match, this latter was, of course, of a higher order of merit. It possesses, too, the distinction of a record, as there is no incident of a similar kind in what are now regarded as first-class inter-county matches. The fixture in which Jupp performed to such purpose, it may be interesting to know, was the second of any importance in whioh Mr. W. W. Bead played for Surrey. TH E KING OF CRICKET. T he “ incident” at the close of Oxford's first innings at Lord’s on Monday, about which so much has been written for and agaiLst, will in all likelihood serve at least one useful purpose in hastening the alterations which it is an open secret the authorises at headquarters are discussing with regard to the procedure in connection with the follow-on. Rightly or wrongly, there seems to be a consensus of opinion that the legisla­ tors favour the idea of allowing the side which has a lead of eighty or more luns^ to determine for themselves whether their opponents shall follow-on or not. A strong party would no doubt ap­ prove a change in this direction, and indeed a large number of influential cricketers whom I personally have consulted have already sijnifiel their assent. Still, it is worthy of remark that such a provision would inorease, and to a considerable extent, the benefit which even now falls to the side winning the toss. Whether in the face of such an increase to the advantage which the choice of innings gives of itself, it would be advisable to make a corres-