Cricket 1896

180 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u n e 4, 18 9 6 . M.C.C. & GROUND v. DERBYSHIRE, l'layed at Lord’s on May 28 and 29. Derby­ shire "won by one wicket. A CLOSE MATCH. This was a bowler’s match, in which each bide had 1he upper hand by turns. 'With the exception of Chatterton, who in both innings of Derbyshire played very good cricket indeed, the only men who scored ■were the hitter*. Among them were Sir T. C. O’Brien, Mead, Uulme, and Trott (who combined hitting with steady play). When Derbyshire went in a second time to make VI7 the chances were very greatly against them, but Bag.-haw and Chatterton played so well, and afterwards liulm e hit so finely, that the run* were knocked off for nine wickets. Tlie Derby­ shire XT. are to be congratulated on their victory, for the M.C.C. team was strong. M.C.C. Fiist innings. Trott, b Porter ................... 8 Carpenter, c Storer, b Polter 4 Wrathall, c liulm e, b Davidson .......................... 0 Dr.G.Thornton. b Davidson 14 F. W . Maude, run out ... 0 Sir T. C. O’Brien, c Storer, b 11ulme .......................... 38 Mead, c W right, b IIulme... 29 Attewcll (W .), c Wright, b H ulm e..................................14 Board, b Davidson ...........36 M. M. Barker, b Davidson .. 3 llearne (J. T.), not out ... 10 B y e ............................ 1 T o ta l....................157 D e rb y s h ire . First innings. L. G. "Wright, c Thornton, b A tiew e ll........................... 0 Sugg (W .), bIlearue............ 5 Bagshaw, lbw, b Uearne ... 0 Attewell, b Sccond innings. runout.................. 3! b Porter ... ... ! c Davidson, b II ulme ............ 1; b Hulme ... ... c and b Porter ... 3: c Storer, b Porter 0 c Stoicr, b Porter 29 c Storcr,b David­ son ................. 18 b P. rter ........... 0 e Storer, b Hulme 7 not out...................12 B 5, l b l ........... 6 T otal...........166 Chatterton, Mead ..................................29 Davidson, b Attewell........... 6 Storer, c and b Attewtll ... 16 Middleton, b Mead ........... 0 Hulme, not out ...................38 F. M. Bingham, c Board, b Attewell ........................... 6 G. A. M aisdm , b Mead ... 0 Forter, b Attcwell ........... 5 Sccond innings. c Board, b Trott 10 c Wrathall, b Hearne ...........16 c Thornton, b Heame ...........33 c and b Me«d ... 65 e Trott,b Mead... 14 runout.......... ... 5 c Board, b M i ad 0 c O’B r ie n , b Heame ........... 37 b Mead not out........... not out........... B 18, lb 1 Total ... .. .105 Total (9 wkts) 218 M.C.C. an d G rou n d . First innings. Second innings. (>. M. It.W . O. M. It. W . Davidson........... 24-1 5 67 4 ............ 32 13 49 1 Porter ........... 20 2 61 2 ............ 31 2 15 60 6 Hulme ........... 14 5 28 3 ............ 20 6 67 3 M iddleton........... 1 030 D erbysh ire . O. M.It. W . O. Hearnc (J. T.) 12 4 37 2 ........... 35 Attew ell........... 2*2*4 10 38 5 ........... 18 Mead ........... 11 3 30 3 ............ 23*2 T r o t t ...........14 M. It. W . 13 53 3 7 34 0 7 66 4 4 46 1 could take any further part in the game ; in fact, J. Bean was allowed to take Marlow’s place. The total was 424, which was not extraordinarily large for the Sussex county ground, but quite laige enough to make the home team anxious. A terribly bad start was made, for Mr. Murdoch, K. S. Ranjitsinhji, and Mr. Collins were all out for single figures; and as Marlow was out of the running, there were only left Bean, Mr. Newham, and Mr. Brann to rely upon. They all rose to the occasion, and the result was a fair score, although it was 207 runs behind that of Somerset. Then came the memorable follow on, in which the Sussex men acquitted themselves in a wonderful manner. Before play ended on Friday the lead of Somerset had been knocked off, and 76 runs bad been made in addition, for the loss of only two wiek ts. Bean had made 25. and K . S. ltanjitsinhji was out after, for tho second time during the week, he had pass* d his hundred. Just before stuirps were drawn for the day Mr.Murdoch also made his hundred, to the vast delight of everybody. Mr. Newham was not out 35. '1 hus the game on Saturday morning was in a veiy ev» n state; but the next wicket did not fall until the total was 440, and by this time Somerset had practically lost all chance o f winning. Mr. Murdoch had made 144, an innings of which he might have been proud even in the days when he was by far the most dangerous bat in Australia. Mr. Newham, who had scored very rapidly, played almost perfect cricket. When his score was 201, the innings was closed at 525 for only four wickets. W ith two horn's and a half to play, and no time to get the runs, Somerset beg>in veiy badly indeed. The men were wearied with so much continuous fielding, and one after another fell until there were six wickets down for 23—five of them to Tate. Then the rot was stayed by Mr. Palairet and Captain Hedley. The Captain was in an hour for 8. but Mr. Palairet scored well. At last Captain Hedley was disposed of, but no further wicket fell. Mr. Palairet’s83 ‘ ‘ not out ’ ’ cannot be too highly piaised. The match will take its place as the most extraordinary of all the extraordinary matches played at Brighton. S om erset . SUSSEX v. SOMERSET. Played at Brighton on May 28, 29 and 30. Diawn. A n a g g r e g a t e o f 1,288 r u n s . A t the beginning of last week Sussex, after allow­ ing Gloucestei-shire to make a veiy laige score, did poorly in their first innings, and had to follow on, w’ith the result that thty were able to close their innings, and almost succeeded in getting tht ir opponents out again. The match with Somerset had very many things in common with the Gloucester­ shire match. After fielding to an innings of 424, Sussex failed to save the follow on, and declared with a total of 525 for four wickets, after which they managed to dispose of seven of their opponents for a small score. Moreover, three of their men made over a hundred in the second innings in each match. It was hard on Sussex to lose the toss twice in the same week, when the weakness of their bowling is considered ; but they certainly will have no cause to rcgr* t the lesult of either match. They were lucky to get rid of Mr. Palairet for only 10 in their first innings, but nearly evtrybody else scored largely. Still, there was nothing out of the common in the Somerset innings until Mr. W oods came in, but then a repetition of his hitting last year in the same match was teen. In the cour&e of his wonderful innings of 158, he lamed Pan is and Marlow, neither o f whom First innings. L. C. H . Palairet, c Tate, b Murdoch ..........................10 Smith (D ), c Parris, b Tate 54 G. Fowler, c Murdoch, b P a rris..................................36 Robson, c Killick, b Parris 21 Nichols, c Bean, b Tate ... 3 S. M. J. ‘Woods, not out ...158 Second innings. notout...................£ b T a te................... 0 V. T. H ill, c Tate, b Brann 64 cTate, bCollins... 4 Capt. Hedley, c sub, b Bean 10 c Tate, b Killick 8 C. J. Robinson, c Tate, b b T a le................. c Collins, b Tate b T a te.................. b Tate ... Killick Tyler, c Brann, b Killick . Rev. A. P. Wickham, Collins, b Killick ... . B 4, lb 5, w 2 ... . 24 not out... 15 0 11 ...424 SUSSEX. Total Bean (G.), c Smith, b Tyler 66 W . L. Murdoch, c Nichols, b Hedley .......................... 5 A . Collins, c and b Tyler ... 7 K. S. Ranjitsinhji, t W ick­ ham, b Tyler ........... ... 8 47 B 2, lb 4, nb 2 8 Total (7 wktsj122 b W . Newham, b Hedley G. Brann, c Wickham, b Robson..................................49 Bean (J.), not out ..............18 Killick, b H edley.................... 8 Butt, b Hedley .................... 8 Tate, c and b Tyler ............ 1 Parris, absent (h u rt)............ 0 Extras........................... 0 c Robinson, Hedley... b Nichols ... not out.......... c Robinson, Nichols ... not out........... .. 25 ...144 ... 15 b ...107 ...201 hit wkt, b Hedley 11 B 16, lb 4, w 2 22 Total..........................217 •Total (4 wkts)525 •Inn:ngs declared closed. S om erset . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O M. R. W . Tate ........... 39 10 128 2 ... ... 40 18 53 5 Murdoch 8 2 26 1 ... Collins........... 15 0 51 0 ... !" 17 7 19 1 Parris ........... 18 5 49 2 ... K illick........... 21.1 3 75 3 ... 16 9 16 1 Bean (G.) ... 10 1 40 1 ... B ran n ........... 9 0 41 1 ... 4 0 7 0 Ranjitsinhji ... 10 3 19 0 Killick and Ranjitsinhji cach bowled a no-ball. Brann bowled two wides. S u ssex . O. M. R. W . O. M. R. w . Tyler ........... 31.3 8 104 4 .... ... 42 3 166 0 H edley.......... 30 10 69 4 .. . ... 46 16 107 2 Palairet 1 0 4 0 ..,. ... 25 10 63 0 Nichols.......... 10 6 14 0 .. . ... 45 15 95 2 Robson.......... 8 2 26 1 .. . ... 16 5 51 0 Fowler .. . ... 2 1 8 0 W oods .. . ... 7 0 22 0 D ill.. .. . ... 1 0 1 0 Nichols bowled two wides OXFORD UNIVERSITY v. SURREY. Played at Oxford on May 28, 29 and 30. The University won by 23 runs. A bad wicket was the cause of the small scores made in this match, and it is perhaps just as well that Richardson was not playing for Surrey. Abel and W ood were also absent from the Surrey team, but for all that, as the luck was about equal, the University is to be congratulated on its fine victory. At the same time it cannot be said that the best bats­ men on the side had much to do with winning: the match; in each innings the scores which made all the difference to the result were by the tail, of whom Messrs. Hartley aud Lewis greatly distinguished themselves in the first innings, and Messrs. Waddy and Hartley in the second. It was altogether a pleasant surprise to see Mr. Lewis making runs. The Surrey batting broke down in the first innings, for Mr. Cunliffe on a bad wicket is a fine bowler, but towards the end the captain, as he has so often done before, made a very useful score. It was a new thing for Surrey to be in a minority of 66 in the first innings. In their second innings they had to make 209 to win, a task which was recognised by everybody as being very difficult. Mr. Cunliffe was of very little use, but, fortunately for the University, Messrs. Hartley and Waddy were able to fill his place in a veiy satisfactory manner. Brockwell, Holland, Mr. Key and Henderson all made good scores, and if the captain had not been run out owing to a very fine piece of fielding by Mr. Leveson-Gower, the county might perhaps just have won. On the whole the Oxford team, despite the failure of nearly all the best batsmen, kept up their reputation as being a strong side, and as the bowling seems to improve rather than to deteriorate, their prospects on paper of winning the University match are better than ever, O x fo r d U n iv e r s ity . First innings. P. F. Warner, b Lockwood F. L. Fane, c Holland, b L ock w ood .......................... H. K. Foster, c Holland, b Hayward .......................... Second innings. i Marshall, b Lockwood 9 b Lockwood 29 c Ayres, b Lock- G.J. Mordaunt, b Thompson 6 G. B. Raikes, c Marshall, b L ock w ood .......................... 10 H. D. Leveson Gower, b Hayward .......................... 23 wood... b Lockwood c Braund, Thompson 14 . 18 Brockwell, Hayward .. G. R. Bardswell, run out ... 10 c Braund, Thompson P. S. W addy, c Hayward, b Lockwood .......................... 0 F. E. Cunliffe, b Lockwood 0 J. C. Hartley, c Marshall, b Read ... ...........................40 c Henderson, b Brockwell c and b Brockwell R. P. Lewis, not out B 5, lb 1 ... Total .162 S u rrey'. First innings. W .W . Read, c Raikes, b Hartley .......................... 9 Brockwell, b Cunliffe........... 9 Holland, b Cunliffe ........... 8 Hayward, lbw, b Cunliffe ... 12 Braund, lbw, b Cunliffe ... 11 Thompson, run out ......... . 2 K. J. Key, not out ...........37 Henderson, c Lewis, b Cunliffe ... ................... 0 Lockwood,c Lewis,bCunliffe 0 Ayres, b Cunliffe................... 3 Marshall,cWaddy,bCunliffe 0 B 4, w l ................... 5 c Braund, b Brockwell ... 29 not out................... 1 Lb 1, nb 4 ... 5 Total ...........142 Second innings. c Lewis, b W addy 10 e Mordaunt, b Waddy ... ... 45 c Gower, bWaddy SO c Mordaunt, b Hartley ........... 6 stLewis.bHartley 8 b Cunliffe ........... 0 run out...................39 not out........... b Hartley ... b Hartley ... c Waddy, Hartley ... 24 ... 0 B 5, lb 3, nb 1 9 Total ...................96 Total O xford U n iversity . ...185 Lockwood ... Thompson ... Hayward ... Brockwell ... W . W . Read First innings. O. M. R. W . 30 9 48 5 16 2 45 1 19 5 7 3 3*3 1 Second innings. O. M. 11. W . ... 22 5 57 4 ... 25 12 38 2 . . 6 3 45 2 ......... . 6 9 11 0 ........... 7*3 4 17 7 1 ...... Braund 5 2 16 Lockwood bowled four no-balls. Surrey*. First innings. O. M. R. W . Cunliffe ... 23*4 14 26 8 Hartley ... 21 4 63 1 , Raikes ... 2 0 2 0 W addy 22 9 30 Cunliffe bowled one wide and one no-ball. Second innings. O. M. R. W . ... 21 7 43 1 ... 294 8 83 5 3 1 20 0 3