Cricket 1896

380 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A u g . 27, 1896. THE AU STR AL IA N S . THE RETURN GLOUCESTERSHIRE MATCH (THIRTIETH OF THE to u r ). Played at Cheltenham on August 20, 21 and 22. Australians won by an innings and 54 runs. In the first match between these teams the Aus­ tralians had the easiest of victories, but it was hoped that the younger members of the Gloucestershire eleven, -who had recently been doing so well, would prevent a bad defeat in the return match. Rain had affected the wicket considerably whenGloucestershire went in—Trott has quite got out of the habit of winning the toss -and the score of 133 was by no means a bad performance against the Australian bowlers. W . G. made 26, thus setting his side a good example, which was followed by Sewell, Jessop, and W . G., junior. McKibbin was the successful bowler. What the Australians would have done if all the chances which they gave during their innings had been accepted cannot be guessed, for they have a way of pulling up when things are going badly. But, at any rate, they would not have greatly exceeded the Gloucestershire total. Darling, who made 26, was missed being stumped at the beginning of hisinnings, and for the loss of two wickets 56 runs were made. Then Townsend made his presencefeltverydecidedly, and six wickets were down for 64. So far, so good. Trumble and Gregory made the required stand, and when the former was out for a well played and very useful 28, seven wickets were down tor 128, the score being exactly doubled during the partnership. The eighth wicket fell at 138, and then Gloucestershire began to miss catches, with theresult that at the end of the innings the Australians were 71 runs on. Despite the mishaps in the field, Townsend had the excellent analysis of eight wickets for 79. On Friday only three overs could be bowled, owing to rain, W . G. being not out 2 and Rice not out 1. On Saturday morning Gloucestershire, now 63 runs behind with all their wickets to fall, began batting on a very difficult wicket, and in less than an hour they were all out for 17, one run less than the famous score made by the Australians themselves at Lord’s. The cause of this collapse was the bowling of Trumble and McKibbin, of whom the former took six wickets for 8 runs in ten overs, and the latter, four for 7 in nine overs and a ball. There were six duck’s eggs on the side, three scores of 1, one score of 3, and one (by W.G.) of 9. The great performance of thetwo Austra­ lian bowlers is one which they are not likelyto forget. Trumble’8 first five wickets were taken for no runs, and the first eight Gloucestershire wickets fell for 11. G loucestershire . First innings. Second innings. W. G. Grace, sen., st Johns, b McKibbin .................26 b Trumble........ 9 R. W . Rice, b McKibbin ... 11 c and b Trumble 1 W . McG. Hemingway, b Trumble ........................ 0 b Trumble........ 0 C. O. H. Sewell, c Iredale, b McKibbin .................18 b Trumble........ 0 C. L. Townsend, c Darling, b Trumble........................ 0 c G rah am , b Trumble...... 0 G. L. Jessop, st Johns, b McKibbin........................30 c G re g o ry , b Trumble....... o W. G. Grace, jun., c Johns, b Jones ........................22 c Donnan, b Mc­ Kibbin 0 F H. B. Champain, b Mc­ Kibbin ............................... 2 c Graham, b Mc­ Kibbin 3 W. S. A. Brown, run out ... 7 not out................. 1 Wrathall, not out .......... 8 st Johns, b Mc­ Kibbin ....... 1 Board, b McKibbin .......... 1 c Trott, b Mc­ Kibbin ....... 0 B 7, lb 1 .......... 8 B .......... 2 Total ..133 A u s tr a lia n s . Total.. 17 F. A. Iredale, b Town­ send ........................ J. Darling, c Board, b Jessop ................. G. H. S. Trott, c Wra­ thall, b Townsend H. Donnan, b Town­ send ........................ l C. Hill, b Townsend... 0 S. E. Gregory, not out 71 H. Graham, st Board, b Townsend .......... 1 G loucestersh ire . 17 H. Trumble, c Sewell, b Townsend ..........28 E. Jones, c Jessop, b Townsend................ 2 T. R. McKibbin, lbw, b Townsend ..........22 A. E. Johns, c and b Jessop .................10 B 14, lb 1, nb 4 ... 19 Total ...204 Trumble McKibbin Jones ... First innings. O. M. 18 2 21.2 8 4 Jessop .. Townsend Brown R. W . 68 2 48 6 0 9 1 A u stralian s . 21.3 3 65 2 IGrace, jun ... 28 5 79 8 Grace,sen.... 3 0 21 0 1 Jessop delivered four no-balls. Second innings. O. M. R.W. ..1 0 6 8 .. 9.1 7 4 0 8 0 22 SURREY v. LANCASHIRE. A SPLENDID FINISH. Played at the Oval on August 20, 21, and 22. Lancashire won by four wickets. With a possible chance of yet winning the cham­ pionship Surrey won the toss against Lancashire, and so far seemed to be aided by Fortune. But as it turned out the wicket improved a great deal while Lancashire were batting, and afterwards, owing to the renewed rain, became bad again. When Surrey began batting it was seen that a large total was not to be looked for, since the bowlers at once hid the upper hand. It cannot be said that the prospect looked very hopeful for Surrey after the first hour’s play, for Abel, Hayward, and Baldwin didvery little, while Brockwell was out for 20. But Hayes came to the rescue of the side, and once more Mr. Key proved his great value at a pinch; he bit very hard and boldly for 35. Hayes for the most part played a steady innings, and his score of 38 was exceedingly useful. Mr. Walter Read had some luck in making his 31. When the innings seemed over Richardson and Wood had a merry time for a few minutes, and put on 23 for the last wicket. Like Surrey, Lancashire made a poor beginning, and four wickets were down for very few runs, but a much neededstandwas made for the fifth wicket by Sugg and Baker, and another for the sixth wicket by Baker and Mr. Bardswell. As the result of some plucky cricket by these players the total at the end of the day was only six behind that of Surrey for the loss of seven wickets. This was increased to 225 on Friday morning, giving Lan­ cashire a lead of 53 on the first innings. Baker carried his bat for 83, a steady and patient innings. Surrey had wiped off 33 of the runs for the loss of Brockwell, when rain stopped play for the day. On Saturday the wicket was very difficult indeed, and as Surreyare certainlynot thebestofslowwicketplayers they may be considered to have done well in scoring 112. To Abel, who is good on any kind of wicket, a great deal of the credit of this reasonably large score is due, and his innings of 47 was worthy of very high praise. Lancashire had to make 60. It was felt that the runs would take some getting, and as there was a possibility of a collapse like that which occurred in the Australian second innings against England, the spectators prepared themselves to bear excitement if necessary. They had plenty of it before the game was won. At lunch time eight runs had been made without the loss of a wicket. Then Baldwin made a wonderful catch, which disposed of Ward ; Paul was out immediately afterwards, and the interest became keen. A stand was nowmade by Tyldesley and Mr. MacLaren, and the score was taken to SO, by which time inteiest had begun to wane. Now came one of those surprises for which cricket is famous. At 30 Tyldesley was stumped, Sugg bowled, Baker well caught by Lohmann, and Mr. Bardswell bowled. Thus instead of 30 being on the scoring boaid for two wickets, there were nowsix wickets downforthesame total. At this period of the game Surrey had a distinct advantage, and it was not at all unlikely that they would win. Hayward was the cause of this collapse, and he has never howled better in Lis life. Meanwhile Mr. MacLaren had been keeping up his end in no undecided me.nner. Very much depended on him, for with only Briggs, Smith, Hallam, and Mold to come in there was more than a chance that the bowlers would have the best of it. Briggs is a good man to go in at an exciting moment, and he has often proved himself a stumbling block in the way of bowlers at critical times. There was no harraseing period of waiting and waiting while the two batsmen pottered about scoring a run here and there, assome­ times happens during a crisis; on the contrary, the runs were made in no time, and Lancashire won a mostinterestingmatch byfourwickets. Mr. MacLaren did not make the slightest mistake in scoring his 32, and nolittlecreditforthevictoryof hiscountybelongs to him. The most successful Lancashire bowlers were Briggs and Mold, while both Has ward and Richardson bowled finely for Surrey. S u rrey . First innings. Second innings. Brockwell, c MacLaren, b Briggs...............................20 b Mold................... 7 Abel, b Hallam .................10 c Briggs, b Mold 47 Hayward, c Bardswell, b Hallam ........................ 1 cPaul, bBriggs... 17 Baldwin, c Bardswell, b Briggs............................... 1 st Smith, b Briggs 1 Hayes,cTyldesley,bHallam 38 c MacLaren, b Briggs .......... 7 K. J. Key, c Paul, b Mold... 35 c Tyldesley, b Briggs ..........11 W.W.Read, cBaker, b Mold 31 c MacLaren, b T , Briggs .......... 8 Lohmann, b Mold .......... 1 c Sugg, b Mold... 0 Thompson, b Mold .......... 0 c Smith, b Mold 5 Wood, not out .................20 not out................... 4 Richardson, c Baker, b Hallam...............................14 c Tyldesley, b Briggs .......... 4 Leg-bye ................. 1 Leg-bye.......... 1 Total .................172 Total..........112 L a n c a s h ire . First innings. A. C. MacLaren, c Wood, b Richardson.......................14 Ward (A.), b Hayward ... 13 Second innings. Paul, b Richardson ......... Tyldesley, b Richardson .. Sugg, b Lohmann............... Baker, not out ................ G. R. Bardswell, b Abel .. Briggs, b Richardson.......... Smith (C.), b Richardson ... Hallam, b Abel ................. Mold, c Brockwell, b Loh­ mann ................. Byes .......... 14 , 22 not out.................32 cBaldwin,bHay­ ward ................. 5 c Wood, b Hay­ ward ................. 0 st Wood, b Hay­ ward ................. 6 b Hayward......... 0 c Lohmann, b Hayward......... 0 b Hayward......... 0 not out.................12 B 1,1b 3,nbl... 5 Total .................225 Total (6wkts) CO S u rrey . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Briggs......... ..26 5 64 2 .......... 26 1 11 44 6 M old ................ 20 9 48 4 ........... 17 2 46 4 Hallam ......... 21 6 52 4 .......... 9 1 21 0 Baker................. 2 1 7 0 ........... L an cash ire . First innings. Second innings. O. M.R. W. O. M. R. W . Hayward ... ... 16 2 45 1 ........... 9*4 3 24 6 Richardson.......... 28 7 72 5 ........... 8 1 25 0 Abel ................. 14 2 37 2 .......... Lohmann .......... 9 3 2 42 2 ........... 2 1 6 0 Thompson ......... 2 0 7 0 .......... Hayward delivered a no-ball. FOREST HILL v. LONDON & WESTMINSTER BANK.—Played at Forest Hill on August 22. F o r e s t H j l l . F. Skipper, st Brook, b Snell....................... C. Rew, b Podmore ... C. Phillips, b Snell ... W . S. Pierce, run out C. B. Squires, c and b Snell........................ V. Smith, c andb Pod­ more ........................ C. Moore, b Podmore H. M. Watmough, not out ........................13 R. D. Boxall, c Man­ field, b Snell .......... 1 R. Taylor, c Snell, b Simpson ................. 5 M.Reichert,bPodmore 1 Byes ................. 3 Total L ond > n and W estm inster B an k . C. A. Snell, b Squires 7 H. O. Manfleld, cRew, b Phillips............... 10 W. Bradbery, bBoxall 14 C. S. J. Douglas, c Rew, b Smith..........12 A. G. Gough, run out 0 S. Bowman, b Smith .. 3 L. Pitt-Brook, runout C. C. Simpson, b Smith J. Bradbery,b Smith... A. Podmore, b Smith C. J. Crossley, not out B 2, lb 7 ... ... Total 63 6 0 0 0 0 9 61 EPSOM v. MALDEN WANDERERS.-Played at Ep^om on August 22. M alden W an d erers . First innings. Second innings. H.R.Morrison, b Boardman 2 b Boardman ... 3 A. G. Rough, b Edwards ... 21 c Edwards, b Boardman ... 16 C. Nettleton, c Ledger, b Boardman........................32 lbw, b Boardman 2L E. Swift, fct Lovelock, b Boardman........................ 1c and b Green ... 3 F. Butt, c Gordon, b Board­ man ............................... G. E. Gush, b Boardman ... N. Vicary, st Lovelock, b Boardman........................ F. Wardle, b Boardman ... J. Attfield, b Edwards H. Saunderson, not out .. c Oldaker, b Boardman b Soden .......... not out................. c and b Soden ... c Edwards, b Boardman c Green, b Board­ man ................. b Boardman Extras ... . . 5 Extras ......... 2 Total . . 81 Total .......... 71 E psom . T. Lovelock, runout... 11 A. S. Soden, b Att­ A. J. Green.bMorrison 7 field ........................ 7 F. A. Oldaker, b G. H. Pagden, not Mountford .......... 3 out ........................ 5 A. J. Boardman, b A. W . Gordon, b Mountford .......... 1 Attfield ................. 1 F. W . Ledger, b E. C. Daniel, bMount­ Mountford .......... 1 ford ........................ 4 H. W . Edwards, b B 9, w 1 .......... 10 Attfield ................. 36 — A.C. Barton, bMountTotal .......... 86 ford ........................ 0 Second innings :—T. Lovelock, b Mountford, 2; A. J. Boardman, not out, 3; A. S. Soden, b Mount­ ford, 8; G. H. not out, 7.—Total 20.