Cricket 1893

818 CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. AUG. 8 , 1893 gives an yth in g like an accurate idea of the scene, that th e tw o parties w ere at all events agreed on one im portan t point— th e necessity of a sm art return to the lu n ch eon room . T he news that Viscount Cobham has, in conjunction with Sir Charles Tennant, Bart.> been appointed a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery in the room of the late Earl of Derby,and of the Marquis of Bath, suggests to a correspondent the hope thatLordCobham, who was better known in his cricket days as the Hon. C. G.Lyttelton, will get cricket—the game that is, not the paper—represented in the Gallery. “ Surely,” my correspondent adds, “ some of the ‘ giants of old ’ are worthy of a place in this interesting collection. How about Ward,Mynn, Pilch, and many others of whom portraits are in existence ? ” The canonisation of King Willow is, it would appear, only a matter of time. I t surely comes within the scope of a cricket curiosity that the credit of the highest innings in a arst-class match should have been removed from Australia to England by an Australian team. Still, the fact remains that the scene of the best on record by a side in a first class match was shifted on Monday from the East Melbourne Ground to that of the United Services at Portsmouth. For the sake of reference it will be of use to give the chief performances cf the kind. 1893—July 31—Portsm outh, Australians v. Oxford and Cambridge Past and Present, 843. 1887—March 17—Melbourne, Non-Sm okers v. Smokers, 803. al890—June—Brighton, Cambridge University v. Sussex, 703 for nine wickets. 61888—August—Kennington Oval, Surrey v. Sussex, 698. a The previous best in a first-class m atch in England. &The record in a first-class Inter-County match. THE NEWEST RECORD. A Portsmouth pitch one July day Saw Cornstalks freely hitting ; They’d come—the students found—to stay, For while the hours were flitting— Though Bainbridge and eke Berkeley bowled— Their efforts quite ignoring, From “ P lay! ” till “ Time ! 9* the town-clocks told, The Cornstalks kept on scoring. There duly dawned a second day, That grew to glorious noontide, Saw lengthening shadows fade away, Then merged in night and moontide; Ten bowlers had the students tried, Ten bowlers Fate imploring, But Fate their best balls luck denied— The Cornstalks kept on scoring. All records left far in the rear Three claim the triple-figure : A sadly-battered leathern sphere: And “ fields ” who’ve lost their vigour; Then came the end—and none too soon, They thought, their case deploring; Till that third day had passed its noon, The Cornstalks kept on Bcoring. C.P. T he following table will show the relative positions of the nine competitors for the County Championship up to date. Piyd. W on L ost Drn. Points. Yorkshire ...........12 ... 9 ... 2 ... 1 ... 7 Lancashire...........11 ... 6 ... 3 ... 2 ... 3 Middlesex ...........10 ... 6 ... 4 ... 0 ... 2 K ent ...................11 ... 5 ... 3 ... 3 ... 2 Notts ...................11 ... 4 ... 4 ... 3 ... 0 S u ssex ...................11 ... 4 ... 5 ... 2 ... —1 burrey.....................12 ... 5 ... 7 ... 0 ... —2 Gloucestershire 10 ... 2 ... 7 ... 1 ... —5 Som ersetshire ... 10 ... 1 ... 7 ... 2 ... —6 Losses are deducted from wins, whilst drawn games are ignored. THE EIGHTH AUSTRALIAN TEAM. TW E N TY-FO U R TH MATCH—v. SURREY. Taking into account the relative perform ances of the two sides during the last fortnight, even with their best eleven in the field, Surrey’s chances could not have been regarded by any one as very hopeful for their return m atch with the Austra­ lians, begun at the Oval last Thursday. From various reasons, too, several o f the county’s regular players were absent. The captain, J. Shuter, C. M. Wells, Lockw ood, and W ood were not able to play owing,more, or less, to stress of cricket, and in addition K. J. Key was also away. To fill their places recourse was had to Henderson, who had been out of the team for some little time, Marshall, W ood’s understudy at the wicket, Richardson, whose hand had not quite recovered, and two young players, Hayward, who had been tried early in the season, and Street, a son of the old Surrey bowler, James Street, w ho had played occasionally during 1891 and 1892 in second-class m atches. With so many changes Surrey’s chances appeared to be still further reduced, and their subsequent show against the pick of the Australian players was, therefore, the m ore gratifying. The wicket at the start on Thursday m orning had not quite recovered from the recent rainfall, and Blackham did not gain very m uch by winning the toss. A t least the ground, if not difficult, was a trifle slow at first, and Richardson and Brockwell bowled with such success, that in an hour and twenty m inutes eight of the best batsm en were out for only 69 iuns. Bruce, w ho had not been very successful recently with the bat, however, gave a very pleasant relief to otherwise uninterest­ ing batting, and he hit with great brilliance, his cutting as w ell a his pulls being very fine. M cLeod and he, too, made som e very sharp runs, and while they were together the Surrey men had a bad tim e of it In just an hour 93 runs were added, and then both batsm en were out, Bruce caught and M cLeod stumped. Of a total of 152 from the bat they were responsible for 94, and Bruce’s 60 was a very fine display of hitting. Richardson and Brockwell equally divided the wickets at m uch the same cost. A great feature of Surrey’s out cricket, too, was the wicket- keeping of Marshall. In addition to catching three batsm en standing back, he got rid of Graham by a very good piece of stumping. W hen Surrey went in a bad start was made, Abel, after getting 10, playing one of Turner’s hard into his wicket. The partnership of the two youngsters, Hayward and Street, however, worked a com ­ plete change. B oth played good as well as confi­ dent cricket, and 95 runs had been added in an hour and twenty minutes when Street was caught in the s-lips. Considering that it was his first appearance in a really im portant m atch he showed plenty of nerve, and his cricket, too, was of an attractive kind, his off hitting in particular being very clean. Hayward, who was batting for two hours, was fourth out at 127. He should have been stum ped when he had m ade eight by Gregory, who had to t ke the wicket on the retirement of Blackham owing to a nasty blow on his thum b, Coningham com ing out to field. Except till just before he was out Hayward made no other mistake, and altogether his runs were the result of correct and taking cricket. The two Reads gave little trouble, but Baldwin and Brockwell scored fast at the end of the day, and in the last hour 91 were added with both batsm en still in. Brockwell increased his score to 67 on Friday morning, and the partnership to 123 before he was out after a fine display of free cricket. B ald­ win was bowled at 277 after being at the wickets close on two hours for 54, a w atchful and very useful innings. Even then the Surrey batting was not finished. Henderson, w ho showed the best cricket of the innings, scored more freely than is his wont, and in fact he was only in an hour and twenty minutes for his 60 not out, which contained som e excellent off drives as well as leg hits. In a m inority of 194 runs the Australians sent in Bruce and Bannerman, who put on 62 for the first wicket. Still, in spite of a useful score of 42 by Graham, the total was only 175 when the sixth wicket fell. Bad light caused an interval of nearly an hour, and as slight rain during the interval had made the ball slippery, Giffen and Trum ble scored freely just at the finish, putting on 31 in the last twenty-five minutes. The latter part of the Australian second innings was chiefly notew orthy forG iffen ’s batting. When the rain cam e he had added 25, and before he was out, he had increased his score to 82. The hour’s interval had handicapped the Surrey bowlers a little with a wet ball, and Giffen, though his inn­ ings, w hich had lasted tw o hours and forty minutes, was as useful as, on the whole, it was well played, had had no sm all share of luck, being very nearly out on several occasions in the slips, When they entered on the fourth innings, Surrey wanted 115 to win, and as the wicket was now de­ cidedly tricky, it was quite on the cards that the Australianswould win. It soon becom e evident, too, that Turner would be able to make the ball do a good deal. He began by bowling Abel, and with Street and Maurice Read also out atl nine, the game seemed all in favour o f the Colonials. Walter Read, how ­ ever, found a useful partner in Hayward, and their stand, which realised 37 runs, was the outcom e of excellent cricket. Still, in spite of some good batting by Baldwin and Brockwell, who brought the total to 89, with 19 to win, and only three wickets to fall, the chances were equally divided. As it was. Henderson played with nerve and judg­ ment at the crisis, and though Sharpe ran him ­ self out at a tie. Henderson made tbe hit which gave Surrey a well-deserved victory by two wickets. Turner worked very hard to win the game for hia side. He kept an excellent length, and his six wickets only coot 54 runs. A u s t r a l ia n s . First Innings. Second Innings. Mr. A. C. Bannerman, c Marshall, b Richardson 22 c A b e l , b Richardson ... 38 Mr. J. J. Lyons, c and b B rockw ell.......................... 4 b Sharpe ... ... 10 Mr. G.H.S. Trott, c Brock- * well, b Richardson ... 0 c Abel, b Sharpe 12 Mr. G. Giffen, c Marshall, b R ich ard son ................... 8 b Brockwell ... 82 Mr. S. E. Gregory, c Henderson, b Brockwell 1 run out ........... 8 Mr. H. Graham, st Marshall, b Brockwell... 4 b Sharpe ...........42 Mr. H. Trum ble, c Mar­ shall, b Richardson ... 18 c A b e l , b Brockwell ... 29 Mr. C. T. B. Turner, c Baldwin, b Brockw ell... 1 c Henderson, b Richardson ... 16 Mr. W . Bruce, c M. Read, b Richardson .................60 b Sharpe .............37 Mr. R. W . M cLeod, b Brockwell ...................34 st Marshall, b A b el.................. 12 Mr. J. M‘C. Blackham, not out ........... ................... 0 not out ........... 2 B 8, lb 2 .......................... 10 B 14, lb 4,w 2 20 Total ...........162 S u r r e y . Total ... First Innings. Second Innings. Abel, b T u r n e r ...................10 c Trum ble, b Turner ... ... 0 Hayward, c Lyons, b Trum ble ..........................53lbw, b Turner ... 20 Street, c Lyons, b Turner 51cGiffen,b Turner 1 M. Read, c Gregory, b Turner .......................... 8 c Trumble, b Turner ........... 3 Mr. W . W . Read, b Turner 4 c Trumble, b Turner ...........25 Baldwin, b Trum ble.......... 54 c G i f f e n , b Trum ble..........21 Brockwell, b G iffen ...........67 c B r u c e , b Turner ...........23 Henderson, not o u t ...........60 not out .......14 Sharpe,c Trum ble,b Trott 10 run out ... ... 9 Marshall, c Graham, b Trum ble ........... .............. 13 not out ........... 0 Richardson, c Bruce, b Trum ble .......................... 4 B 16, lb 5, w 1 ...........22 B ................. 5 Total ,.356 Total ...118 BOW LING ANALYSIS. A u s t r a l ia n s . First Innings. O. M. R. W . Richardson...23.4 4 64 5 Brockwell .. 26 12 61 5 Sharpe ..............5 1 11 0 A b e l......................2 0 16 0 Second Innings. O. M. R. W . ... 38.1 12 102 2 ... 39 11 91 2 ... 38 13 74 4 ... 1 0 0 1 Hayward ... 11 2 21 0 Richardson delivered two wides. S u r r e y . First Innings. O. M. R. W . Trott ..............28 7 69 1 Turner ............ 32 7 79 4 Trum ble ... 36.415 77 4 G. Giffen ... 23 5 69 1 Bruce ............ 8 2 26 0 M cL e od ........... 4 1 14 0 Second Innings. O. M. R. W - . ... 24.18 54 6 . ... 17 4 34 1 . ... 7 2 25 0 Bruce delivered a wide. C r ic k e t C h a t f o r 1892.—(Eighth Year of Issue), enlarged and im proved edition, post free 7Jd Containing in addition to Portraits and Biographies, Groups of Cricket, and Cricket Anecdotes and Oddities. To be had at the QffiCfe of this piper, of all Bookseller*, or W . H. Smith ft Sons stalls.