Cricket 1896

131= CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OE THE GAME. M ay 14, 1896. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY v. MR. C. I. THORNTON’S TEAM. Played at Cambridge, on May 7, 8 and 9. Drawn. The Cambridge University team is to be congratulated on the result of this match, against such very strong opponents. It is true that they were many runs behind at the end, with only two wickets to fall, but when they went in a second time, it was impossible for them to make runs enough to win before stumps were drawn, and in making a draw, they did all that was required of them. It is often forgotten that when men cannot obtain the necessary runs in the time, they have to alter their style of batting to suit the cir­ cumstances, and what they do is no test of what they might have done if the object had been to make runs, instead of merely keeping up wickets. The Varsity did extremely well in disposing of Mr. Thornton’s X I. for 219 on a perfect wicket, seeing that the tail (who made nearly all the runs) included F. "W, Maude, G. J. V. Weigall and Captain Wynyard (who are all in great form this year) and A. E. Trott. At the end of the first day’s play the match looked remarkably well for Cambridge ; they had made 200 runs for only three wickets, Burnup being not out, 92, and H. H. Marriott not out, 66. But misfortunes came on the morrow with great rapidity. Bumup was lbw to the first ball bowled ; he had played a very fine innings. Marriott only added 20 to his well-played 56, and though J. H. Stogdon and G. L. Jessop made a stand, the tail did very little indeed, and the total, which looked likely to be very great, was only 289. It was not to be expected that the men on Mr. Thornton’s side, who had failed completely in the first innings, would all be found wanting in the second. Shrewsbury played one of his beautiful innings, and made 63; Captain Wynyard shewed that the Cambridge bowitr? have 3 7et a lot to learn, and was not out until he had made an almost perfect 121, and A. J. Webbe (31, not out) was well set when stumps were drawn on the second day, with the total at 315 for 5 wickets. On Saturday, Mr. Webbe was unable to continue his innings, owing to an injury which he had received on the Friday, but F. W . Maude and Trott played excellent cricket for 37 and 58. Aided by 40 extras, the total mounted to 440. This left Cambridge with 371 runs to win *.nd no time to make them. Therefore, the X I. played for a draw, and were successful in their object, although when the match ended, they had only two wickets to fall. N. F. Druce was the chief scorer, with 63, but several others played very useful innings. M r . C. I. T h o r n to n ’ s E n g la n d X I. First Innings. Sccond Innings. C. I. Thornton, b Jessop ... 10 st Robinson, b Jessop ........16 Shrewsbury, run o u t ............ 0 c Mitchell,b Lowe 62 Heame (/Uec), c Diuce, b J e sso p .................................... 0 c Mitchell, b Jessop ........37 Davidson, c Eobinson, b W ilson.................................. 6 c Druce, b Jessop 26 C. W . W right, c Mitchell, b W ilson.................................. 7 b Shine................12 A. J. Webbe, c Marriott, b Wilson.................................. 8 retired hurt........31 G. J. V . Weigall, b Lowe 75 b Bumup .......... 0 F. W . Maude, c Shine, b Lowe ..................................CO b Lowe................37 Capt. E. G. Wynyard, not out..........................................£6 c Shine, b Wilsonl21 Trott (A. E.), c Jessop, b W ilson.................................. 15 b Shine .........5S Mead, b Shin5 ................... 0 n otou t.................. 0 B 11, lb 1 ...................12 B31,lb4,w3,nb2 40 C am bridge U n iv e r sity . First innings. F. Mitchell, c Wright, b Mead .................................. 23 C. J. Bumup, lbw, b Trott... 92 W . M. Hemingway, b Davidson ........................... 17 N. F. Druce, c Weigall, b Davidson .......................... 0 H. H. Marriott, b Mead ... 76 J. H. Stogdon, run out ... 29 G. L. Jessop, c Wynyard, b Davidson .......................... 25 C. E. M. Wilson, b Mead ... 1 W. W . Lowe, b Mead........... 4 C. D . Robinson, c Trott, b Davidson .......................... 5 E. B. Shine, not out ........... 0 B 11, lb 5, nb 1 ............17 Second innings. b Trott..................... 25 c Webbe, b Trott 35 b Mead ............ 3 b Heame ...........63 c Hearne, b Mead 89 cThomton,bMead 2 c Weigall, b Merd 1 b Davidson.......... 26 lbw, b Hearne ... 21 not out.................. 7 B 5, lb 4 ... 9 Total ...................289 Total (9 wkts) 231 M r. T h o r n to n ’ s X I. Second innings. O. M . R. W. First innings. O. M. R. W . Jessop ........... 20 2 58 2 .. W ilson ........... 22 5 6L 4 B urnup........... 6 2 23 0 .. Lowe ........... 12 2 42 2 .. Shine ........... 11*4 4 23 1 .. Druce.. Wilson, Lowe, and Burnup each bowled one wide ; and Jessop and Shitie one no-ball each. C am bridge U n iversity . 47 10 117 31 11 85 23 10 45 28 6 95 28*2 11 4 2 52 6 Total ............... 219 Total........440 Mead ........... Trott ........... Davidson ... Ilearne (A.) M aude........... First innings. O. M. R. W . 42 12 101 4 ... 19 2 76 1 ... 263 6 68 4 ... 5 1 12 0 ... 3 0 15 0 Wynyard ... Second innings. O. M . R. W. . 50 19 12 16 16 4 88 2 34 1 0 16 0 Heame delivered one no-ball. M.C.C. AND GROUND v. SUSSEX. Second and concluding day. Lord’s, May 7. M.C.C. won by 9 wickets. When play ended on May 6, the M.C.C. had lost five wickets in their first innings and were 73 runs ahead, Gunn being not out 102. Gunn increased his score to 138—a very fine innings, but the rest of the team did little, and the total was 280. Sussex wTent in again about 1 o’clock with 141 runs to knock off. Fry was immediately bowled, but with Ranjitsinhji in, the score was taken by some attractive cricket to 66. After lunch Marlow was bowled for a pretty 29. Murdoch was a long time in making his first 6 runs, but afterwards he settled down and scored steadily. Ranjitsinhji in the meantime was making some very pretty strokes all round the wicket, several times sending Miller hard to the boundary. Two or three times he made Murdoch run very quickly, and once nearly fell a victim himselt to his eagerness to get to the other wicket. By this time both men were hitting well, and Chatterton went on to bowl at the Pavilion end in place of Hearne. In trying to pull his first ball to leg, Ranjitsinhji was bowled for a faultless 74, which included ten 4’s and six 3’s. With Newham and Murdoch together, the 141 were hit off and there seemed a prospect of Sussex making a good fight of it. But the bowlers made the ball kick a good deal, and from a ball by Martin, who had found a spot, Newham was struck in the mouth and retired for a short time. Brann took his place and very soon made some hits which were worthy of himself at his very best. He had two or three narrow escapes of being hit on the face, and at last, just as he was well set, was bowled by a ball from Attewell, which kept very low indeed. Sussex also lost the services of Murdoch, bowled by Hearne for a very clever innings of 42 made without a chance, and the Sussex batting broke down. Newham returned to the wicket and made a plucky attempt to turn the tide of tho game, but the others did nothing, and with his score at 20, Newham was very neatly stumped. The innings closed for 204. With a little more than an hour left for play, Stoddart and Hayman started to get the necessary 64 runs. Tate was fortunate enough to secure Stoddart’s wicket with his first ball. On Gunn’s arrival runs came very quickly, Gunn especially hitting very hard, and with the score at 33 Killick bowled in place of Parris. The Sussex fielding was very good indeed; Ranjitsinhji at point stopped some very hard cuts. At half past six it was decided to play the match out, and the runs were hit off at about twenty minutes to seven. S u ssex . First innings. Marlow, b Attewell .........12 Mr. C. B. Fry, b Hearne ... 23 K. S. Ranjitsinhji, c Gunn, b Heame ........................ 30 b Chatterton Mr. W . L. Murdoch, b Hearne................................11 b Heame .... Mr. W . Newham, c Stod­ dart, b H earne................. 3 st Storer, b Atte- Mr. G. Brann, b Martin ... 10 Bean (G.), b Martin .......... 4 Parris, lbw, b Martin.......... 2 Butt, lbw, b Hearne ...........16 Killick, not out ..................21 Tate, st Storer, b Martin ... 1 Extras ................ 6 ..139 Second innings. b A ttew ell......... 21 b Heame ........... 0 Total ... well b A ttew ell........... b Hearne ........... b Hearne ........... c and b Hearne... b A ttew ell........... not out................... E xtras........... Total... 20 20 1 4 0 ... 0 . 0 14 ...204 M.C.C. First innings. Mr. A. M. Miller, b Parris.......................... 9 Attewell (W .), b Par­ ris ........................... 4 Hearne (J. T .),b Tate 11 Martin, not o u t........... 0 E x tra s...................11 Mr. H. B. Hayman, b T a te .......................... 5 Mr. A. E. Stoddart, c Marlow, b Killick... 12 Gunn, Ibw, b Tate .. .138 Chatterton, run o u t ... 66 Storer, b Marlow ... 9 Mr. V. F. Leese, b Marlow ................... 0 T otal....................280 Mr. A . E. Gibson, b T a t e ..........................15 Second innings :—Mr. II. B. Hayman, not out, 32 Mr. A. E. Stoddart, b Tate, 0 ; Gunn, not out, 24 Total (for one wicket, Extras 8), 64. S ussex . First innings. Second innings.. O. M.R. W . O. M. R. W . Attewell... 22 6 51 1 .............. 30.3 19 28 4 Heame ... 31 16 47 5 .............. 45 22 68 5 Martin ... 20 5 35 4 .............. 25 8 57 0 Miller ... 8 2 31 0 Chatterton 3 1 6 1 Tate .......... K illick ......... Parris ......... Fry ......... Ranjitsinhji.. M arlow ......... M.C.C. First innings. O. M. R. W . 32.4 11 20 6 26 8 13 12 89 4 ... 44 1 ... 62 2 ... 23 0 ... 33 0 ... 18 2 ... Second innings. O. M. R. W. ,. 14.1 8 26 1 . 6 2 13 0 . 8 1 17 0 WEST WRATTING PARK v. CAIUS COLLEGE (CAMBRIDGE) 2nd X I. - Played at W est Wratting Park on May 4. C aiu s C olleg e . C. R. Worthington, c Smyth, b Hayter ... 2 T. W . Paterson, not out .......................... 39 H. A. Mitchell, b Hayter ...................17 W . F. L. Day, b Nisbet 8 T. E. Wilson, b Nisbet 0 J. P. Stott, b Nisbet... 0 T. T. Simpson, b Cobbold ...................10 W . A. V. Chunton, b Nisbet ................... F. L. Canter, c Cobbold, b Nisbet ... T . F. Hanse,b Cobbold R. A. Tigan, b Nisbet Extras ........... Total ... 85 W est W r a ttin g P ark . W . N. Cobbold, b Worthington ...........18 F. S. Nisbet, lbw, b Mitchell...................35 W . R Gray,c Paterson, b Worthington ... 24 W . L. B. Hayter, b Mitchell ................... 3 A. F. Lumsden, b Mitchell .................. 7 G. M. T. Smyth, not out ..........................42 M. Yates,b Worthing­ ton ... ° 5 C.T.Metford,b W orth­ ington o W . R. Grieve, b M itch ell................... i D . Macpheraon, b Mitchell ................... o G. Worley, b Mitcheii 0 Extras ...........15 Total ...150