Cricket 1895

A pbil 11, 1895. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 59 ( Continued from page 55.J the fifth wicket. Bobby was batting for two hours and forty minutes, and coming after his double pair in the two preceding test matches, was a pleasant experience for him, and one which earned for him warm congratulations from his comrades. He hit eight fourers. Lockwood, who went in next, made one neat cut for 4 off Giffen, and blocked several good balls as a prelude to putting one up to Harry Trott at silly mid-on. (6—5—302.) Just prior to the fall of Lockwood’s wicket, Harry Trott had relieved his brother, but Ford, the newcomer, did not like the slows a little bit. He made a couple of fine off drives, one off each bowler, and was finally caught at slip, where he had been badly missed by Giffen when his score was only 5. 7—11—304 was an interesting record, and the betting was 5 to 4 against the Australian total being reached. The odds immediately length­ ened, when without any addition to the score M’Laren knocked his wicket down with his right foot while he was in the act of turning round after pulling one of Harry Trott’s slows. Once or twice before he had nearly come to grief in the same way in making his leg-breaks, and he ought to have learnt a lesson by experience. Nevertheless, it was bad luck to terminate a fine innings so un­ fortunately. He was batting three hours forty minutes, which indicates sufficiently that his play was defensive, but he always made his hits hard, and his leg- hitting, late cutting, and cover cutting were all beautifully-timed, hard, and clean. He gave two chances—both returns to Giffen—one when he was 69, and the other when his score was 114. His hits were twelve 4’s, twenty-one 2’s, and the remainder singles. Briggs, who was joined by Philipson, only saw two runs added before he was splendidly taken at mid-on by Harry Trott, who in making the catch fell over. The last man died hard, and it was not until 385 ■was reached that Richardson was out leg before wicket. It was a very fine per­ formance on the part of the Englishmen to get to 29 of the Australians’ big score, and—win or lose—they will emerge from the match with credit. The Colonials’ fielding, doubtless affected by the weather, was far from perfect, and the weakness was not where it might have been expected, on the part of Lyons. Men like Bruce, Iredale, Giffen, and Graham made blunders. With an hour and fifty minutes before time the Australians began their second innings as before, with Harry Trott and * »ruce, who were set to face the bowling of Richardson and Peel. The scoring was very slow, and when Bruce was splendidly caught and bowled at 32 the innings was fifty minutes old. Giffen began briskly, but then relapsed into such stonewalling tactics, that for half an hour he only made one run. Lock­ wood relieved Richardson, and bowled eight overs for seven maidens and two runs, while Briggs tried unavailingly to f®£?,rate the stonewallers, and when lime ! ” was called the score was 69 for one wicket, which left the Australians 98 tuns to the good. The following were he scores at the end of the third day’s play: A u str a lia . G. H. S. Trott, b Briggs ...................42 W . Bruce, c M ’Laren b Peel ...................22 G. Giffen, b Peel ... 57 F. A. Iredale, b Rich­ ardson ................... 8 S. E.Gregory, c Philip­ son, b Richardson... 70 J. Darling, c Ford, b Peel ...........................74 J. J, Lyons, c Philip­ son, b Lockwood ... 55 In the second innings W . Brune scored c and b Peel 11; H. Trott, not out, 37 ; G. Giffen, not out, 14; byes, &c., 7. Total (for one wicket), 69. H. Graham, b Rich­ ardson ................... 6 A . E. Trott, c Lock­ wood, b P e e l...........10 A. H. Jarvis, not out 34 T. R. M ’Kibbin, e Peel b Briggs ...................23 B 3 ,1-b 10 ... 13 Total ...414 E n gland . W . Brockwell, st Jar­ vis, b H. Trott ... 5 A. Ward, b M ’Kibbin 32 A. E. Stoddart, st Jar­ vis, b H . Trott ... 68 J. F. Brown, b A . E. T rott.......................30 A . C. M ’Laren, hit wkt., b H. Trott . 120 R. Peel, c Gregory, b Gitfen ................73 W . H. Lockwood, c H. Trott, b Giffen ... 5 F. G. J. Ford, c A . E. Trott, b Giffen ... 11 J. Briggs, c H. Trott, b Giffen ................... 0 T. Richardson, lb w , b H. Trott ...........11 H. Philipson, not out 10 B 8, 1-b 8, w 4 ...2 0 Total ...385 BOWLING ANALYSIS. A u str a lia . —First Innings. B. M. R. W i B. M. R.W Richardson 252 7 138 3 Briggs..........142 5 46 2 Peel ...........288 13 114 4 Brockwell ... 24 1 22 0 Lockwood ...162 7 72 1 |Ford .......... 12 0 9 0 E ngland . —First Innings. B. M. R.W B. M. R.W G. Giffen ...270 13 130 4 ;M ’Kibbin ...174 6 73 1 H . Trott ...144 5 71 4 B ru ce............30 1 7 0 A. E. Trott 180 4 84 1 1 CRICKET IN AUSTRALIA . VICTORIA v. NEW SOUTH WALES. The fifty-fourth match between Vic­ toria and New South Wales ended, after six days cricket, on January 30th, at Sydney, in a win for Victoria by 55 runs. The game was long drawn out, partly by rain, partly by the condition of the wicket, and partly by a disagreement between the umpires as to the fitness of the wicket for play. New South Wales were able to score an advantage of 93 runs on the first innings, thanks mainly to the fine batting of Iredale and Gregory, and the effective bowling of McKibbin. The chief feature of Victoria’s second innings was the stand of Graham and Laver, whofrat on 123 runs. Graham, who made his 61 in an hour and forty minutes, ought to have been caught very soon after he came in. Laver took two hours and twenty-five minutes to score his 65. With only 155 to make for the fourth innings, it was thought New South Wales had a very easy task before them. The bowling of the brothers Trott, however, proved too much for the later batsmen, and though 70 was up with only three batsmen out, the whole side were out for 99. H. Trott took five wickets for 31, A. E. Trott four for 39 runs. Of the 54 matches played between the two colonies since 1856 Victoria has won 30 and New South Wales 24. Score and analysis:— V ic t o r ia . First Innings. Second Innings. H. Trott, c Turner, b Callaway .......................... 18 b McKibbin ... 11 Stuckey, c Howell, b M cK ib b in .......................... 28 c Howell,bTurner O' Worrall, b M cK ibbin..............12 b Turner ............. Graham, st. Kelly, b Turner 23 b Howell ............61 A. Trott, c McKibbin, b Turner................................... 0 b Turner ............ 24 Laver, run out ................... 1 c and b Turner ... 65 C. McLeod, c Kelly, b M cK ib b in .......................31 c and b M cKibbin 35 Harry, b T u rn er...............27 c Callaway, b Howell ......... 9 Blackham, b McKibbin ... 23 notout.................. 0 R. McLeod, b McKibbin ... 0 b Howell .......... 0* Trumble, not ou t...............10 b McKibbin ... 30 E x tr a s ............................8 Extras ... 12 Total... ...181 Total...........247 N ew S outh W ales . First Innings. Second Innings. Garrett, c Trumble, b A. E. Trott ..................................... 36 b H. T rott............. 6 Iredale, c Laver, b A . E. Trott .................................. 86 c R. McLeod, b H. T rott...........22 Moses, b C. M cL e o d ........... 1 st Harry, b A. Trott...................16 Donnan, c and b M oLeod... 40 b A. T ro tt........... 3 Noble, c H. Trott, b C. McLeod ............................ 5 c Trumble, b A. Trott ........... 7 Gregory, c Mitchell (sub.), b R. M cLeod ......................69 c Mitchell (sub.), b H. Trott ... 24 Callaway, c Trumble, b R. McLeod ...........................22 c Trumble, b H. Trott ...........11 Turner, b W orrall ........... 3 c Trumble, b H. Trott ........... 0 Kelly, c A . Trott, b R. McLeod ........................... 3 run out.................... 0 McKibbin, c Harry, b R. McLeod ........................... 0 not out.................... 0* Howell, not out ................... 3 c and b H. Trott 5 E xtras........................... 6 Extras........... 5 Total ........... ...274 Total...........99 BOW LING ANALYSIS. V ic to r ia . First Innings. Second Innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Howell ......... 16 8 350 ............. 17 8 25 3 McKibbin ... 13*3 2 365 .......... 28 6 86 3 Garrett ....... 3 0 100 ........... 1 0 5 0 Turner ....... 19 6 483 .......... 36 13 56 4 Callaway ... 5 3 351 ............. 10 1 30 0 Noble .......... 2 0 90 ............. 4 0 13 0 Donnan 9 2 20 0 Turner bowled three no-balls. N ew S outh W a l e s . First Innings. O. M. R. W . A . Trott ........... 31 5 74 2 Trumble ........... 9 0 30 0 C. M cLeod........... 38 8 88 3 R. M cLeod........... 15*1 3 50 4 W orrall ........... 11 3 17 1 H. Trott ......... 3 0 9 0 Second Innings. O. M.R. W .. , 20 3 9 39 4 10 4 12 0 4 1 12 0 ! 14 3 31 5 NEW SOUTH WALES v. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. New South Wales won this match, played at Sydney on Feb 22, in the end easily. Having won the toss, New South Wales went in first, scoring 239 to which Garrett the captain contributed 82 and Donnan 58. The South Australians batted more consistently, and scored 304,. Dyer contributing 71 and Darling 70. New South Wales who were thus 65 in arrears on the first innings, scored heavily in the second to the tune of 336. Iredale made 91 (top score in the match), Gregory 66 not out, and Howell 62. The South Austialians who required 272 runs to win,, at one time had made 107 for two wickets, the defence broke down when Giffen and Darling were separated, however, and the innings closed for 160, leaving New South Wales the victors by 111 runs.. M’Kibben bowled in great form for New South Wales taking eight wickets in the Second innings for 66 runs, his record for