Cricket 1893

MARCH 23, 1893 CRICKET t A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME* 89 Gregory 59 (not out), Turner 48, Burn and Ferris 35 each, Lyons 34, and Trumble 31. Rain then came down, spoiling the wicket, and Lancashire fell for 78 and 83, only A. N. Hornby, Briggs, and Sugg seeming able to play the bowling at all. The match with the M C.C. was limited to two days, owing to the Derby Day, and was lost “ on the post ” by seven wickets, Grace, Gunn, and Shuter playing the forcing game with marked ability in the second innings. Trott, with 18 and 16, batted best for the losers, while Gunn with 31 and 30 (not out) made most runs for the winners, for whom Martin, the Kent pro., bowled very finely. A high-scoring match with Cambridge University, ending in a draw, followed. For the Cantabs, E. C. Streatfeild hit brilliantly for 34 and 74 (not out); M’ Gregor scored 73 (not out) and 31; while Douglas made 57 and Hill 41 in the second innings, which amounted to 357. Barrett played a good steady innings of 76, full of proof that he was now becoming used to English wickets ; Murdoch made a fine 73, and Gregory a somewhat fluky 40. The next match, with Middlesex, was also drawn. In the first innings of the Australians seven wickets were down for 13 runs, and nine for 55 ; but Ferris (49) and Trumble (34, not out) put on 8C for the last wicket. In their second innings, Barrett and Gregory were not out when the match ended with 42 and 63 respectively. E . A, Nepean scored 45 for the County. Shrewsbury made 61 and Gunn 43, on a good wicket, for N otts; and the rain which afterwards fell did so much detriment to the ground that the Australians lost by an innings and 26 runs. In the next match, with the South, at the Oval, they suffered another defeat, by 97 runs. W . W . Read played a fine innings of 90 on a slow wicket, while Grace made 49 and 35. Blackham, who scored 56 and 22 (not out, of totals of 113 and 74, made an heroic but unsuccessful effort to save the game for his side. The Players ran up 526 in the next match, at Lord’s, William Gunn scoring 228, the highest individual innings ever made in England against an Australian team. Barnes scored 67, his best performance of the year, Peel 41, Ulyett 40, Lohmann 34, and Read 33. For the Australians, who suffered a very decisive defeat, Lyons, with 50 and 24, made most runs, though he would have been of more use to his side if he had stayed longer at the wickets, instead of going in for his usual short and merry life. Yorkshire, at Bradford, then won by eight wickets. S ail made 64 and 28, while Lee played an innings of 67 ''not out), and Peel one of 73. For the Australians, Barrett (who scored in the two innings 107 for once out), Turner (76), and Ferris (59, for once out), made nearly all the runs. A draw with the North of England at Manchester followed, Murdoch making 74, Blackham 47, Turner 42, and Shrewsbury 39. Then another drawn game,with Derbyshire (in which Turner took six wickets for 16 runs), was followed by a viotory over a scratch eleven at Stoke (Ferris this time taking eleven wickets for 33). Leicestershire was then beaten by an innings and 64 runs, Charlton playing a good innings of 75 (not out), Blackham making 58, and Barrett 45. J. A. Turnermade 49, and Warren 45, in the first innings of the County; but in the second Ferris took six wickets for only 10 runs ! A draw withGloucestershire followed, only time keeping the Australians from having an easy victory. Lyons (65) and Turner (41) passed the Gloucestershire total before they were separated, scoring 96 while together in three-quarters of an hour. Trott played a firt>t class innings of 102; whileJones, though his old power and confidence seemed utterly to have forsaken him, showed to more advantage than at any other time during the toar in making 98. A defeat by nine wickets from the Flayeis, at Sheffield, wa3 chiefly brought about by the batting of Shrewsbury (65), Gunn (43), and Chatterton (41). Then the return match with Surrey was drawn in favour of the County, for whom W . W. Read made 57, Lockwood 48, Lohmann 45, J. Shuter 38, and Maurice Bead 32; while the chief scorers for the Austra­ lians were Murdoch (50 and 28), Barrett (54 and 24), and Jones (35 and 12). England was represented in the match which followed, at Lord’ s, by Messrs. W . G. Grace, G. M’ Gregor, and W . W . Read, with Attewell, Barnes, Gunn, Lohmann, Peel, Maurice Read, Shrewsbury, and Ulyett. Mr. A. E. Stoddart andBriggs were in the original list, but the amateur preferred to help his county, and Briggs had a strained thigli. We have no space here for so long a descrip­ tion of the game as we should like to give, for it was well contested and excitiug, and the Australians, though beaten by seven wickets, were far from disgraced. Two men on their side accomplished really notable performances. Barrett, the young stonewaller, carried his bat right through their second innings for 67, and Lyons banged the England bowling about with the utmost impartiality, for two fine innings of 55 and 33, He also bowled well, taking five wickets for 30 in the first innings of England, in which Ulyett (74) and M Read (34) made the lion’s share of the runs. When the Old Country went in again W .G. scored a grand 75 (not out), and Gunn made 34. Though Turner and Ferris both took a rest during the progress of the next match, Sussex was beaten by an innings and 45 runs. Bean played a fine, free second innings of exactly 100 for the County, while for the Avstralians, Murdoch made a splendid 158, and Barrett a steady 83. Kent was next beaten by nine wickets. The “ Lyric Club and Ground ” team (containing eight All-England players!), thanks to the batting of O’Brien (87),Ulyett (70),and Stoddart (42), and to Mold’s fast bowling on a fiery wicket, won by 96 runs, Barrett carrying his bat right through the second innings of the losers for 61. Kent, at Canterbury, then turned the tables on the Colonists, defeating them by 108 runs, the main factors in the County’s snccess being the batting of Lieut. L. A. H. Hamilton, who carried his bat through the second innings for 117, and the bowling of Martin. FrOm the next match, v. Cambridge Past and Present, at Leyton, Ferris and Turner were absentees. The game was a slipshod affair, ending in a draw; but three centuries were recorded in it, though,singularly enough, each one of the batsmen who scored them was misled early in his innings by the wicket­ keeper. E. C. Streatfeild made 145 in less than two hours, Trott scored 186, and Murdoch 129. The next match, the fixture with England at the Oval, resulted in one of the closest finishes of the tour. The Australians were defeated by two wickets: but had it not been for a piece of mis-fielding on the part of Barrett—who ha3 not even yet forgiven himself for it—they would probably have won. Mr. J. Cranston, Sharpe, and Martin took the places occupied by Ulyett, Peel,and Attewell in the other match. There were no big scores on either side, the ground being slow ; but Trott, with 39 and *25, and Maurice Read, with 19 aud 35, batted really well. A very weak Eleven ofOxford and Cambridge Past and Present, at Portsmouth, played a draw, high scoring being prevalent on both side?. Murdoch with 31 and 69, Barrett with a second innings of 96, and W . D. Llewellyn with 33 and 48 (not ont) made most runs, Notts won the next match, played on adifficult wicket and interesting throughout, by 20 runs, William Gunn, who scored 47 and 50, being quite the hero of the game. Then Gloucester­ shire was beaten by eight wickets, Ferris scoring 54, not out, his highest innings of the tour ; aud the third match with England was abandoned owing to wet. Next came three victories in succession—over Staffordshire (throughwhose two innings Turner and Ferris bowled unchanged), a weak North of England Eleven at Leeds, and Lord Londesborougb’s Eleven at Scarborough. Turner’s fine all­ round play fairly won the last-named match, in whichthe margin was the narrow one of eight runs. He scored 55 runs out of 135 from the bat made by his side, and took thirteen wickets for 57 runs. A match with M C.C. and ground,played for the benefit of the Cricketers’ Fund, and lost by four wickets, was rendered remarkable by the fine batting of Gunn (118), and the hitting of T. C. O’Brien for 105 and Lyons for 99. The South Australian only occupied an hour aud a quarter in making this, his highest score of the tour. A game with an eleven drawn from Kent, Surrey, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire, and called (perhaps ironically) the Hurst Park Club, was lost by 34 runs, the ground just suiting Mold’s bowling. Then the South (W. G. Grace 80, Abel 84) won by ten wickets at Hastings; and a lackadaisical game with a strong team of players at Man­ chester (arranged owing to the disappoint­ ment experienced in the abandonment of the English match there) was drawn. Barrett scored 97 and 73 (not out), and several other players on both sides made scores that would have been better worth mentioning had the bowling and fielding been at all up to the mark. Such was the lame and impotent conclusion of an unsuccessful and spiritless tour. Thirty-eight matches had been played, thir­ teen won, sixteen lost, and nine drawn. A l­ most the only good features of the tour were the fine all-round play of Turner and Ferris, the gratifying measure of success with which Murdoch met, the wicket-keeping of Black­ ham—as sure as ever, and the good consistent form shown by the young stonewaller, Barrett. He took Bannerman’s place, and filled it well, though his style was not so good as Alec’s. Trott, Lyons, and Jones all fell below the form expected of them. Trott played many good innings, but was not as consistent as in 1888 ; Lyons usually spoiled his chances of gettiug set by hitting too rashly at first, and Jones was an utter failure. Burn and Walters were also of practically no use. Trumble and Charlton scarcely proved themselves the bowlers they were said to be, and Gregory, though his fielding was splendid, fell off in batting very much after the first few weeks. The all-round fielding was good, some of the weaker fieldsmen improving very much as th e season wore on, though it sometimes went un­ accountably all to pieces. BATTING AVERAGES. Tim es M ost in Inns. not out.Kuns. an Iun. Aver. W . L. M urdoch 64 ... 2 ...1453 ... 158 .... 23.31 J. E. Barrett ... 61 ... 7 ...1305 .,.. 97 ... 22.51 G. H. S. Trott 65 ... 1 ...1273 ... 186 ..., 19.57 J. J. Lyons ... J. M. Blackham 65 51 ... 1 ... 5 ..1142 . ... 728 . .. 99 .. .. 75 .. . 17.54 . 15.38 C. T. B. Turner 60 ... 0 ... 910 ... 59 ... 15.10 J. J. Ferris 56 ... 13 ... 617 .... 5i* ..., 15.9 P. C. Charlton 47 ... 11 ... 534 ... 75* .. . 14.30 S. E. G regory... 60 ... 35 ... 568 ... R9* ... 12."8 S. P. Jjnes 35 ... 2 ,... 400 .... 98 .... 12.4 K. E. Burn ... 39 ... 4 ... 355 .. 35* .. . 1^.5 . H. W alters .. 43 ... 3 ... 402 .,.. 53* .... 10.2 tt . Trumble ... n . F. Boyle 50 ... 12 ... 310 ... 34* ... 86 1 ... 0 ... 3 ... 3 ... 3 " J. Pope ... 4 ... 0 ... 6 ... 6 .... 1.2 BOW LING AV &RA.GES. Overs. Mdns. Runs. W kts. Aver. C.T.B. Turner 1651.1... 724 ... 2725 ... 215 ... l?.14i J. J. Ferris ...1G35.4... (8S ... 2^3-J ... 215 ... 1\43 P.O. Charlton 406.3... 14’* ... 8-0 ... 42 ... 19.2 FT. Trumt le ... 497.4... 1*5 ... 1133 ... 63 ... 21.25 J. J Lyons ... 310.4 .. I ll ... 939 ... 43 ... 23 G. H. S. Trott 199 ... 34 ... 610 ... 23 ... 26 12 J. E. Barrett 38 ... 15 ... 89 ... 6 ... 14 5 S. E. Gregory 3 ... 0 ... 91 ... — ... — S. P. Jones ... 2 ... 0 ... 16 ... — ... — J. M. B lack­ ham ........... 16 .. . 4 ... 37 .. — ... — H. F. Boyle ... 10 .. . 4 ... 17 ... — ... — a. J. Pope ... 2 .... 0 ... 19 ... — ... — W ICK ET KEEPING Blackham stumped 31 and caught 42 Murdoch „ 2 „ ,, I11, Pope < .. 2. (To be Continual.)