Cricket 1896

364 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. Acs. 20, 1896. THE AUSTRALIANS. THE SUSSEX MATCH (TWENTY-EIGHTH OF THE t o u r ). Played at Brighton on August 13, 14 and 15. Australians won by six wickets. The record made by Sussex in matches against the Australians has been far better than that of most counties, and although they were not able to stem the tide of Australianvictories incountymatches, they at least made a remarkably good fight against them. As usual the Sussex bowling proved the weak spot in the team, and as usual the first few men made a splendid beginning in the second innings; in fact, the balance against the county was kuocked off for the loss of one wicket. The first innings of Sussex was not remarkable—it is very seldom that the countyhas doneanythingwonderfulthisyearinthefirstinnings— but it was not unsatisfactory. It is true that Fry, Marlow, Murdoch and Newham did not distinguish themselves, andthatRanjitsinhji only made the small score (for him) of 25. But at a critical time Killick and Bean came together, and by excellent cricket seemed to be gradually mastering the bowling, when Bean was so Beverly hurt by Jones that he had to retire and could not resume his innings. At this time his scorewas 18 andhewaswellset; his accident was a great misfortune to Sussex. Killick played very fine cricket for 61, and Tate and Etheridge hit well for the last wicket; so thatthetotalwasover200. The Australians soon lost Darling, but Giffen and Donnan, whoplayedsteadily, hadbroughtthescoreto 89 by the close of the day. The Australians’ batting on the next day was safe, and more than half the team made a lot of runs. Giffennearlymadeanother hundred, and Donnan, Trott and Graham each scored over fifty, and it is needless to say that all four innings were made by sound ciicket. Gitfen’s 8t lasted for three hours and fifty minutes, and in all that time he hardly made the slightest mistake. Kelly carried his bat for 41. The total came to 352, so that Sussex had to make 131beforetheywere level. They had three quarters of an hour’s batting, and knocked about the Australian bowling in a way which has not been done before. No lessthan87 runs were put on for the loss of Marlow who made 26 in a quarter of an hour. On the next morning Fry and Ranjitsinhji continued to score rapidly until the lead of the Australians had been overtaken, andwith nine wickets still in hand and two men well set, Sussex seemed to have a good thing on. Then Ranjitsinhji was out for a splendid 74, and the turn of the Australians came in a suprising manner. Fry carried his score to 92, which included fifteen 4’s, and then a complete rot set in. Butt hit just before the end of the innings and carried his bat. Possibly some rain which fell hastened the collapse. The Australians had to make 118 runs in about two hours, and accordingly set about this work in a more vigorous W’ay than usual, with the result that they won, twenty minutes before time. Trumble and Killick bowled exceedinglywell. S u ssex . First innings. C. B. Fry, c Giffen, b Trott 15 Marlow, b Trott.................10 K. S. Ranjitsinhji, c Trott, b Trumble........................25 W . L. Murdoch, b Trumble 15 W . Newham, c Trumble, b Trott ............................... 2 Killick, c Johns, b Trumble 54 G. Bean, retired hurt..........18 J. C. Hartley, c Eady, b Jone3 ............................... 0 Butt, b Trumble................. 1 Tate, b Trott........................37 Etheridge, not out ..........17 B 23, lb 3, nb 1 ...27 Second innings. Trumble, b Donnan ......... 92 c Giffen, b Trott 26 run out ..........74 c Trumble, b Donnan .......... 8 lbw, b Trumble 8 cKelly.b Trumble 4 c and b Trumble 1 b Trumble.......... 0 not out.................30 c and b Trumble 0 b Trumble.......... 0 Byes .......... 5 Total .................221 Total ...248 A u str a lia n s . First innings. J. Darling, b Etheridge ... 6 H. Donnan, c Ranjitsinhji, b Etheridge .................51 G. Giffen, c Butt, b Killick 84 H. Graham, c Fry, bKillick 60 C. J. Eady, c Butt, bKillick 4 G. H. S. Trott, b Hartley... 52 C. Hill, cMurdoch, bKillick 22 H.Trumble,cMurdoch,bFry 0 J. J. Kelly, not out ..........41 E. Jones, b Etheridge..........32 A. E. Johns, c Etheridge b Killick................................12 B 5, lb 1, w 2.......... 8 Second innings, c Fry, b Killick... 46 b Killick .......... c Fry, b Killick... not out................. c Butt, b Fry ... not out................. B 4, w 1, nb 1 6 Tota} .............. 35? Total (4 wkts.)119 Trumble Trott ... Jones ... Giffen .. First innings. O. M. R. W. 35 13 75 21*1 3 61 4 . 20 8 34 1 7 2 24 ... 12 ... 3 0 ......... 11 Donnan 29 Jones delivered one no-ball. Second innings. O. M. R. W. . 31-2 11 69 6 0 67 0 25 2 36 13 53 Etherilge ... Fry................ Hartley.......... Killick......... Tate .......... Ranjitsinhji... Murdoch A u s tr a lia n s . First innings. O. M.R. W. 55 21105 3 ... 35 15 60 1 ... 22 5 65 1 ... 28-2 8 71 5 ... 20 10 30 0 ... 1 0 1 0 . 4 2 12 0 . Second innings. O. M. R. W. . 11 5 ,. 13 3 24 0 26 1 10 9 1 42 3 Fry delivered three wides and Killick a no-ball. YORKSHIRE v. LEICESTERSHIRE. Played at Scarborough on August 13, 14 & 15. Yorkshire won by 162 runs. Although Yorkshire were without Mr. Jackson, they always had the upper hand of their opponents, although the scoring by both sHes was small. This was accounted for by the fact that the wicket was greatly in favour of the bowlers, of whom Wain­ wright, Peel, and Geeson had fine averages. Mr. Smith, Denton, Lord Hawke, and Mounsey were the only Yorkshire batsmen who made many runs, but most of the team scored double figures. On the other hand the Leicestershire batsmen were not seen at their best, and the onlyscore over 20 in either innings was 22 by Mr. Powers. Mr. de Trafford was uuabie to play, and this, nodoubt, discouraged the Leicester­ shire team. Y orksh ire . First innings. Tunnicliffe, b Woodcock ... 4 Brown (J. T.),lbw,b Geeson 11 E.Smith, c Joyce, b Pougher 35 Denton, run out .............. 46 Mounsey, c Whiteside, b Geeson...................... ... 17 Moorhouse, b Pougher ... 2 Peel, b Geeson ...............19 Second innings. cTomlin,bGeeson 32 b Geeson .......... 9 c Geeson, b Pougher..........14 b Geeson .......... 8 Wainwright, b Geeson F. W. Milligan, c Knight, b Hillyard........................ Lord Hawke, c Joyce, b Pougher ........................: Hunter, not out ................. B5, lb l, nbl, w 2 ... b Qeeson ... b Pougher ... c Whiteside, Geeson ... not out.......... 1 b Geeson ... 21 14 b ... 0 ... 10 ... 15 B 5, lb 2 ... 7 Total .................194 Total (8wkts.)*130 * Innings declared closed. L e icestersh ire . First innings. J. Powers, b Wainwright... 22 H. German, b Wainwright 6 Tomlin, b Wainv*right ... 18 Pougher, b Peel ................. 0 Knight, b Wainwright ... 0 C. C. Stone, b Wainwright 0 R. Joyce, not out.................17 G. W. Hillyard, c Smith, b Wainwright .................14 Geeson, b Wainwright ... 8 12 Second innings, c Tunnicliffe, b Peel................. b Wainwright ... c Smith, b Peel... c Waiuwright, b Peel................. 8 b Wainwright ... 15 c Brown, b Peel 1 c Brown, b Peel o cHunter,bWain­ wright .......... 9 lbw, b Wain­ wright .......... 4 Woodcock, c Tunnicliffe, b Smith............................... 1 b Peel.......... Whiteside, c Tunnicliffe, b Peel ............................... 4 not out.......... Leg-byes ................. 3 Leg-byes Total ... 93 Y o r k s h ir e . First innings. O. M. R. W. Pougher ... 28’2 9 64 3 ... Woodcock ... 5 1 33 1 ... Geeson.......... 3310 61 4 ... Hillyard ... 10 4 17 1 ... Total..........59 Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 30 8 71 2 . . . 3 2 4 0 ... 26*2 8 48 6 Geeson delivered one no-ball and two wides. L e ic e s te b s h ir e . First innings. O. M. R. W. Peel .......... 31*418 32 2 ... VVainwright 35 16 43 7 ... Smith .......... 8 4 15 1 ... Second innings. O. M. R. W. .. 18 4 9 19 6 ..1 8 6 38 4 MIDDLESEX v. LANCASHIRE. Played at Lord’s on August 13, 14 and 15. Middlesex won by 196 runs. This was in several ways a remarkable match. Lancashire, after the first half hour’s play, had an uphill fight, but they did so well under the most discouraging circumstances, that it was quite on the cards that they would manage to make a draw. It would have been a great feat if they had succeeded in doing this, and, perhaps if Mr. Bardswell had not been badly run out at a very criticalmoment, Middle­ sex might not have been able to get the last wicket in time. Mr. Stoddart and Rawlin did very little in the way of batting for Middlesex in either innings, but the two great hitters, Sir T. C. O’Brien and Mr. F. G. J. Ford, were in splendid form. The former made 58 and 61, and the hitter 77 and 61, and while they were in, the Lancashirebowlershada very trying time indeed. Nobody else, except Mr. Douglas, who made 41, did anything of importance in the first innings, and the total was not remarkable. But the Lancashire batting was on the whole veiy weak, and only Mr. MacLaren and Mr. Bardswell could do any­ thing with the bowling. Nevertheless, the northern county was only 76 behind on the first innings. Middlesexmade a poor startwhentheywent inagain, but O’Brien and Ford again played splendidly, and afterwards Mr. Webbe, Mr. Lucas and Mr. Bromley- Davenport all made fine scores. Middlesex wereable to close their innings at twelve o’clock on Saturday, leaving Lancashire the option of eithertryingto make 433 in five hours, or playing for a draw. They, of course, tried for the draw, and so well did Mr. Mac- Laren. Tyldesley, Sugg and Bardswell play, that the difficult task began to look possible of achievement. Presently it seemed not only possible, but probable, aud then Mr. Bardswell was run out, through no fault of his own, and the tail collapsed. M id d le se x . First innings. A. E. Stoddart, c Smith, b Mold ............................... 5 J. Douglas, c Bardswell, b Briggs...............................41 Hearne (J. T.), b Briggs ... 2 Rawlin, b Briggs.................12 F. G. J. Ford, b Mold......... 77 Sir T. C. O’Brien, c Bards­ well, b Briggs .................58 A. J. Webbe, b Mold.......... 0 R. S. Lucas, c Smith, b Briggs...............................10 14 .. 61 C. M. Wells, b Mold.......... 4 H. R. Bromley-Davenport, b Mold............................... 9 West (J. E.), notout.......... 0 B 1, lb 9, w 1 ..........11 Second innings, b Mold.................13 b Mold................. 14 c Smith, b Mold 0 b Mold.......... b Sugg.......... b Sugg.......... run out c MacLaren, Hallam ... not out.......... not out.......... B 9, lb 10 ... 61 ... 46 b ... 40 ... 19 ... 69 ... 19 Total .................229 Total( 8 wkts )*358 * Innings declared closed. L an cash ire . First innings. E. Rowley, b Rawlin.......... 6 Ward (A.), c Stoddart, b Rawlin............................... 8 A. C. MacLaren, b Hearne 59 Tyldesley, b Rawlin .......... l Sugg (F. H.), b Hearne Baker, b Wells Second innings, c West, b Wells 12 G. R. Bardswell, cStoddart, b Wells ........................ Briggs, b Hearne................. Smith (C.),e West, b Hearne Hallam, c Stoddart, b Wells Mold, not out........................ B 1,lb 4 ................. 1 14 44 10 0 5 0 5 b Hearne .......... b Stoddart.......... c Webbe, b Stod­ dart ................. not out................. b Wells .......... Total ..............153 M idd lesex . run out................20 c O’ Brien.b Wells l c West, b Wells 0 b Stoddart.......... e c Douglas,bWells 3 B 11,lb 5, w1 17 Total ...236 O. M. R. W. Briggs ... ... 30 12 79 5 Hallam ... ... 5 0 21 0 Mold......... .. 331 9 104 5 Bardswell ... 5 1 11 0 Baker ... 3 2 3 0 Sugg Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 40 12 83 0 3 67 1 7 117 4 0 20 0 0 21 0 0 29 2 18 Mold bowled a wide. L an c a sh ir e . First innings. Second innings. O. M.*R. W. O. M. R. W. Hearne......... 35 14 48 4 .......... 43 19 77 1 Rawlin .......... 26 7 65 3 .......... 18 13 15 0 B.-Davenport 3 1 6 0 .......... 4 1 13 0 Wells .......... 11*3 0 29 3 .......... 38 2 15 56 5 Stoddart.......... 22 4 52 3 Douglas .......... 4 0 6 0 Stoddart bowled a wide.