Cricket 1896

J u l y 23 , 1896. CRICKET*: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. * 299 BETWEEN THE INNINGS. The great game at Manchester has to a large extent overshadowed the other events of a week exceptionally rich in incident; a week in which, though only eight first- class matches were played, as many as 7,565 runs were scored for the loss of 257 wickets— an average only fractionally short of 30 (to be exact, 29*43) per wicket. Ten centuries were scored in the eight matches, and nine totals of over 300 were recorded. All three of the matches begun on Thursday resulted in 1,000-run totals—1,220 for 32 wickets at Birmingham, 1,073 for 37 at Manchester, 1,057 for 27 at Southampton. And thirteen times during the week were partnerships of 100 or over recorded. Long stands for a wicket, week ending July 18 :— July 115...2...Ward & Wynyard Hantsv.S’x. S’pton... 13 139 .7...Lilley & Pallett ... W w k.v.D ’y Derby... 13 145 . 2 .. .Darling & Giffen... Aus. v.Leic. Leicester J3 133...3.. Darling & Donnan „ „ 13 145...4...Darling & Gregory „ „ 14 156...9.. Hayward & J. T. Hearne .......... Pla. v.Gent. Lord’s... 14 131 . 2...Giffen & Iredale .. Aus. v. Eng. Man’ter 16 100...2.. Ward & Wynyard Han.v.Yks. S’pton .. 16 184 ... 3 ...Quinton&Wynyard „ „ 16 125. 4 ..Owen & Perrin ... E’xv.W w k. B ’ham 16 108 ...4...W . G. Quaife & W elford .......... Wwk.v.E’x. „ 17 145...*...Diver&W.G.Quaife „ ,, 18 102 ...5...Hirst & Mounsey... Yks.v.Han. S’pton... 18 The Southampton ground on which the scoring as a rule is not sensational, has been the scene of tome remarkable run getting during the last fortnight. First came the Australian game, with centuries by Iredale and Giffen, and a capital double of 37 and 68 by Hampshire’ s gallant captain. Then fol­ lowed the Somerset match, with Lionel Palairet’ s magnificent 268, and 76 and 52 from Wynyard’s fellow soldier, Quinton. The game with Sussex was somewhat quieter, but Wynyard scored 112 and Newham 81 and 42. The Yorkshire match produced as high scoring as that v. Somerset, and, had it been fought out to a finish, would probably have been wonderfully like it, save that Hampshire would have been victors and not vanquished. In each case the side batting first scored over 500, and their opponents had to follow on in a big minority ; in each case the innings defeat was averted through plucky play by the later batsmen after something very like a collapse among their predecessors. In each case one batsman scored over 200, and the next highest scorer on his side made under 60. Another hour’ s play might well have extended the parallel still further. Wynyard’s 268 was, of course, the feature of the game ; but it must not be overlooked that three Yorkshiremen (Hirst, 55 and 68, Mounsey, 55 and 64, and Mr. Milligan, 58 and 52) played up in splendidly plucky fashion. When Tunnicliffe, Denton, Peel, and Wainwright, four of the best batsmen on the side, were all out for 19 in the second innings, three of them bowled by Soar, it must have looked almost any odds on Hampshire. But cricket, as has been remarked once or twice before, is a funny game. Yorkshire did not win, it is true; but they made a most honourable draw. These were the principal figures of the fortnight’s cricket on the Southampton ground:— Individual innings of 292, 268, 130, 112, 106, 86, 81, 80, 76, 73, 68, 68, 66, 64, 59, 58, 57, 55, 55, 54, 53, 53, 52 and 52, to say nothing of smaller scores. Totals of 519, 515, 462, 356, 307 (for 9 w.), 270, 262, 235, (for 8 w.), 229, 225 and 203. The only completed innings of under 200 was the first of the home side against the Austra­ lians—134. A grand total of 3,890 runs for 122 wickets, thus divided :— Hants v. Australians................. 799 for 30. Hants v. Somerset .................. 1,065 for 32. Hants v. Sussex.......................... 969 for 33. Hants v. Yorkshire .................. 1,057 for 27. Average, over 31 per wicket. I am not pre­ pared to say that no other ground has ever had so many runs scored on it during a fort­ night’s first-class cricket; but I should think the instances of anything similar must be very few and far between. So far as I saw, none of the critics who praised Jack Heame’s capital 71 in the big match at Lord’ s, mentioned the fact that the same player was credited with a very similar feat at the Oval two years ago, also in a Gen­ tlemen v. Players’ match. His partner on that occasion was, as on the 16th, a Surrey man, Robert Abel, to wit. The Gentlemen had scored 244. Abel went in first for the Players. Gunn and Ward failed; Brockwell scored 42 quickly ; Lockwood was soon ou t; Briggs helped “ Bobby” to add 95 for the fifth wicket, tho little Lancastrian doing the lion’s share of the scoring ; Baker only made 8, and Wainwright failed ; then Jack Hearne, ninth man on the list, with only Hunter and Mold to follow, came in ; and whereas at his advent there had been very little to choose between the two sides, at his dis­ missal matters had been so changed that an eventual victory for the Players was rendered almost a certainty. (As a matter of fact the Amateurs crumpled up so badly in their second innings that they were all out for 92, and the Players won in an innings. But that was an unforeseen circumstance, due it is only fair to say, to a bad light on the Friday evening and rain during the night.) He and Abel put on 119 while together, Heame’s score being 50, up to that time considerably his biggest effort with the bat in first-class cricket. The Middlesex bowler is a man who has only missed being a great batsman by reason of the fact that he is a great bowler. I have seen him play innings which, though neither long in duration nor big in runs scoreJ, have shown plainly that he has any amount of pluck and no inconsider­ able ability. While he goe3 in last, the Middlesex team may always be said to have, like Surrey and Yorkshire, possibilities of scoring right down to the last man. Eight batsmen—Ranjitsinhji, W .G ., Abel, Brown, Gunn, Gregory, Darling, Hayward— have reached the 1,000 runs; and some ten or a dozen others should follow in their wake by the end of the month. Richardson and Jack Hearne are still the only bowlers who have taken 100 wickets: but Briggs, Atte­ well, Mold, Jones, Trumble, and Giffen are all well up. At this date (July 20th) last year seven batsmen—W .G ., Abel, Ranjit­ sinhji, Stoddart, Albert Ward, Lilley, and S. M. J. Woods—were credited with 1,000 runs ; four bowlers—Richardson, Mold, Martin, and Jack Hearne—with 100 wickets. I am not going to say much about the Manchester match, but I think all who read “ Between the Innings ” regularly will guess that its result has delighted me. I wanted to see the Australians win at least one of the three test matches. With one to their credit, they will have done enough for honour, if not for glory. And they won this game finely. Every man on the side had a hand in the result. On the England side three men stood out head and shoulders above the rest. Of the 529 runs scored from the bat by England, Ranjitsinhji and Lil'ey scored just 300 between them, and each was once not out. To add to this, Lilley made five catches, and had Trott’s wicket with his bowling, and the Indian Prince caught two ; and though the stumper missed catching Kelly at a critical time, this can scarcely be held to discount very greatly his fine play in the match. Richardson, the king of fast bowlers, took 13 wickets for 244; the other six bowlers, 4 for 275 ! Altogether, it was a glorious game, a match of the sort that one can never forget, and if Ranjitsinhji never scored another run, and Richardson never took another wicket, their names would be held famous for the sake of their deeds in it. J. N. P. BUXTON VISITORS v. THE COLLEGE.—Played on the Buxton College Ground, Derbyshire on July 20. T h e V isit o r s . E. T. Gregory, Story, b Richardson 28 T. Parkin, c Marsh, b Story.......................... 6 C. H. Coles, c King­ ston, b Story .......... 4 A. Whytt, b Richard­ son .......................... 2 H. Greenhalgh,b Story 0 F. Bridger, c W all- work, b Story.......... 9 G. T. Thornhill, b Richardson ...... 1 L. Wilson, not out ... 10 U. E. Bates, lbw, b Richardson ...... 2 J. McKenna, c and b Richardson ...... 4 F. H. Stevenson, b Richardson ... . 0 B 4, lb 1 ...... 5 Total 71 T h e C o l l e g e . J. W . Marsh scored (not out) 136; N. Story, b Parkin 16; C. A. Kingston (not out) 100; b 15, lb 2, w 1, nb 2.—Total, 272. J. Chambers, C. W . Richardson, H. 8. Cann, R. Wallwork, S. Lee, C. Jackson, C. Mandley, and S. Holdsworth did not bat. IBIS (2) v. W ILLESDEN (2 )-P layed at Willesden on July 18. I b is G. Clinton, c Howden, b A. Barron ........... 2 R. Alexander, b T. Lacey..........................37 G.S.Dewey, b E. Lacey 1 G. May, b E. Lacey ... 11 J. Sparrowhawk, c Hudson, b McEwen 6 H. Froom, iun out ... 51 ( 2 ). A . E. May, b Barron... 20 P. Lazzell. not out ... 13 G. J. Rogers, b Barron 4 G. Eastwood, b Barron 0 H. Dickenson, Lacey, b Barron Extras T. Total ...162 W i l l e s d e n ( 2 ). W . B. Whittington, b Alexander ........... 8 H. G. Potter, b Alex­ ander ... ........... 0 D. McEwen, b Dicken­ son .......................... 4 R. F. Bull, b Eastwood 20 A. A. Barron, b Dick­ enson .................. 13 H.Kyle and E. Lacey did not bat. TOOTING GRAVENEY v. GOLDSMITHS’ Played at Tooting on July 18. T o o tin g G r a v e n e y . T. Lacey, c and b Sparrowhawk........... 21 H.G. Dunkley,notout 20 H . F. Hudson, c Laz­ zell, b Alexander ... 23 F. Howden, not ou t... 7 Extras ...........29 Total (7 wkts.) 39 ( 2 ).- Cath, c Windett, b W ise..........................19 Rhodes, c Windett, b W ise.......................... 5 Jackson, c and b W in­ dett ..........................15 Pitt,cWindett, b W ise 4 Lamont, c and b Wise 0 Vollaire, not out ...4 0 Sawyer, c and b Wise 10 G o ld sm it h s ’ Foster, b Harrod Devereux, b Harrod .. Bennett, c Falkner, b W is e .......................... Charter, st Cozens, b G ood .......................... B 2, lb 2 ........... Total ...........; A. W roe. c Devereux, b Vollaire.................. F. Bowfer, lbw, b Vol­ laire .......................... J T.Harrod.b Vollaire J. A . T. Good, b Saw­ yer .......................... W . 8. Murrell, b Saw­ yer .......................... 8.G. Cozens, c Rhodes, b Vollaire.................. E. M. Medway, b Sawyer ................... S. V. Windett, b Vol­ laire .......................... W . Falkner, b Sawyer S. W ise, c Jackson, b Sawyer ................... G. Gillingham, not out Byes ........... . . Total 44