Cricket 1895

A pbil 11, 1895. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 53 THE TWELFTH ENGLISH TEAM IN AUSTRALIA . Continued from Cricket of March 28th, page 37 SEVENTEENTH MATCH.—v. QUEENS­ LAND AND NEW SOUTH WALES. T hird D a y , M o n d ay , F e b r u a r y , 18 t h . Play was resumed at noon, in fine though oppressively warm weather. Ward and Briggs, the not outs, resumed; the latter was caught off the first ball bowled by Coningham, a full toss which was hit to cover-point. Mr. Stoddart joined Ward, when very slow and uneventful cricket was witnessed, it taking an hour to add 40. When the score reached 82 (Callaway hereabouts relieving Ooning- ham), the captain tried his first big hit, skied the ball to cover-point, and was out. Brown played lively cricket, scoring much faster than usual. When he had compiled twenty-four, McKibbin (who bowls medium pace right-hand, breaking both ways) clean bowled him with a low leg break. Four for 118. M’Laren partnered Ward, but the latter did not survive much longer, McKibbin dis­ missing him with a fine off break. Five for 129. Ward had played slow cricket, taking no liberties, and being content to wait for certainties when he scored. Peel remained while Mr. M’Laren hit, which he did to the delight of the spectators. Taking advantage of the absence of a wicket-keeper, he frequently ran down the pitch several yards to the medium- pace bowling, and when he missed the ball was able to get home in time before Iredale could make any attempt to put him out. His fast scoring brought on numerous changes in the bowling, but they were all treated with scant courtesy, and were each in turn despatched to the boundary. When the partnership had added 86 runs, Peel was neatly caught at mid-off by Gregory. His 23 was well put together. Mr. Ford, who followed, after making a fine straight hit to the boun­ dary, received a long hop wide on the leg side, and swinging round to hit it only just touched it and was easily caught by Iredale standing back at short stop. This fine hitter during the last few matches has experienced some hard luck, either getting bowled off his legs or playing on, and it will be remembered in the first innings of this match was acci­ dently caught between the wicket­ keeper’s ankles, whilst upon this occasion had a regular stumper been in the field there would have been four runs to regis­ ter to him for his stroke, instead of being caught out. Saven for 227. Mr. Philipson was soon bowled by McKibbin. Eight for 243. Mr. M ‘Laren about this period of the game was hitting nearly everything bowled at him, and with Humphreys in passed his hundred, shortly afterwards being caught in the long field. He gave two cha.nces, one to Callaway at long-off, when sixty-nine, and at ninety-nine he was missed by Iredale standing back at the wicket. His innings was very popular with the crowd, who, like all Australian onlookers, delight in fast scoring. Nine for 271. The innings shortly afterwards terminate:! a£ 5 .20 for 279, leaving the combined team 365 runs to get to win. A few minutes after the players had reached the pavilion rain began to fall, and continued till six o’clock. F ourth D ay . T uesday , F ebruary 19 th . During the night further downpours fell, leaving the pitch in favour of the bowlers next day, though the wicket dried so quickly that it was only for the first hour the bowlers derived much assistance from it. Richardson was able to make the ball “ k ick ” a good deal, which several of the batsmen during this match were painfully aware of, few of them escaping one or more blows from him. Coningham, McDonald, and McDonnell were out when 18 had been scored, whilst at 37 Gregory was well caught in the long field. Iredale and Turner then made a good stand upon the improved wicket, but Briggs when put on quickly helped to finish off the innings, securing three wickets for 14 runs. Jones and Bradley were unable to ba t; indeed, ic has transpired that Bradley was more seriously hurt than was at first thought. I am informed that the fore­ finger of his right hand is broken between the first and second joints. The total of 86 was a poor effort, and Iredale’s thirty- three (not out) was the only redeeming feature. He has shown that he is now capable of watching the ball on indifferent wickets as well as any batsman. He played Richardson much better than anyone else on the side. The victory of the Englishmen by 278 runs was a good one, but they certainly had the best of luck in having (with the exception of three-quarters of an hour the sec md day) a dry wicket to bat on, whilst their opponents had it wet or sticky. Score and analysis : E xgland . First Innings. Second Innings. Ward, b Turner............... 9 bMcKibbin ... 47 Brockwell, run out ........... 14c and b Turner... 15 Mr. A. E. Stoddart, b Con­ ingham ........................40c McKibbin, b Callaway........ 20 Brown, b Couingham........ 4 b McKibbin ... 24 Mr. A. C. M'Laren, lbw, b Coningham....................... 37c Gregory, b Callaway........ 106 Peel, c Callaway, b Turner 30 c Gregory, b Mc- Mr. F. G. J. Ford,c Bradley, Kibbin ......... 23 b Turner ...................... 4c Iredale, b Mc­ Kibbin ........ 4 Briggs, b McKibbin........ 13 c McKibbin, b Mr. H. Philipson, c Iredale, Coningham .. 2 b Austin ....................... 21b McKibbin ... 5 Humphreys, not out .. .. 9 not out...............10 Richardson, c Gregory, b Austin............................ 0 b Callaway.. .. 1 Extras ................. 11 Extras.......... 22 Total ........192 Total.........279 N ew S outh W ales and Q ueensland . First Innings. Second Innings. P. S. McDonnell (capt.), c Humphreys, b Richardson 18 b Richardson ... A. Coningham, c Ward, b Richardson....................... 20 c Brown, b Rich­ ardson ......... 3 F. A. Iredale, not out...........37not out............. 33 S. E. Gregory, b Richardson 15 c M‘Liren, b Bradley, c Philipson, b Richardson ... 16 Richardson........................11absent (hurt) ... 0 C. T. B. Turner, b Richard­ son ............................. 2 c Brockwell, b Briggs ......20 S. P. Jones, c Philpson, b Briggs............................ 0 absent (hurt) ... 0 S. T. Callaway, c and b Briggs........* ............... 0 b Briggs ......... 0 McDonald, c Stoddart, b Briggs............................ 1c Philipson, b Peel............12 Austin, st Philipson, b Briggs........................... 0 c Ward, b Briggs 1 T. R. McKibbin, run out ... 1b Richardson ... 0 Extras.................. 2 ' ^^Extras .. .. 1 — ■ — Total .. ..107 tTotal.. .. 8H BOWLING ANALYSIS. E n g lan d . First Innings. Second Innings. O. M. E. W . O. M. E. W . Turner .......43 18 74 3 ... 25 8 87 1 Coningham ... 27 10 3S 8 ... 31 9 65 1 McKibbin . . 1 9 4 49 1 ... 26 1 98 5 Austin ........... 6'4 1 17 2 ... 5 0 18 0 Callaway........... 5 2 5 0 . . 14 2 8 39 3 Coningham delivered 1 wide and 1 no-ball, McKibbon 3 wides, and Austin 1 wide. N e w S o u t h "W a le s an d J Q u een slaxd . First Innings. Second Innings. O. M. E. W . O. M. E. W . Bichardson........... 24 8 42 5 ... 24-3 11 35 4 Peel ................... 18 4 47 0 ... 14 5 21 1 Briggs ... ........... 3 1 15 4 ... 6 1 14 3 B rock w ell........... 1 0 1 0 ... 4 2 3 0 Humphreys 8 2 12 0 EIGHTEENTH MATCH—v. EIGHTEEN O F NEWCASTLE AND DISTRICT. F ir s t D a y , F r id a y , F e b r u a r y 22n d. On the completion of the match the Englishmen took their departure the same evening, being anxious to get away from the tropical heat. The journey to New­ castle was broken for a day at Armidale, which made a pleasant break. A quiet day and cool weather gave them all a much needed rest. Newcastle was reached on the Thursday evening at 7.30, and even at that hour a formal reception at one of the leading hotels was tendered the team by the leading townsmen. The match was begun next day at noon. The ground presented a very fine appearance, and though small in size is covered by excellent turf, which is kept in first-class order. The wicket was a typical English one, with a fine thick sole of grass, not shaved so close as the wickets in Sydney and Melbourne. Mr. Stoddart, losing the toss, had to take the field. Mr. Philipson and Richardson were both rested for the final test match beginning next week. Lock­ wood (whose hand had quite healed) and Humphreys took up the bowling, the former especially being in fine form at the start. At one time six wickets were down for 18, Lockwood bowling four of them. Lindsay and Giles then made a good stand, taking the score to 51, when Lindsay was bowled by a lob. He is a fine punishing left-hander, cutting and driving in first-class form. Giles, who played very well, but perhaps too steadily, gave a lot of trouble. He played all the bowling with ease on the perfect wicket, and was fourteenth out with the total at 138, Mr. Stoddart, who had a try with the leather, clean bowling him with his first delivery. Wilson (fifteen) and Simon (twenty-two, not out) also shaped well. 0 A peculiar overthrow took place when Humphreys was bowling. One of his deliveries was adjudged wide. The wicket-keeper was also unable to reach it, and the batsman ran for it. Peel recovered the ball and threw it in so fast that it went to the boundary on the overthrow, five wides being thus recorded against the lob-bowler. The fielding of the Englishmen was very good, and evoked frequent applause. With just an hour’s batting Ward and Brockwell, the two first batsman, played out time, compiling 67 by attractive play. Both early in their innings gave difficult chances of catching to the wicket-keeper, otherwise their strokes were particularly