Cricket 1897

28 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. F eb . 25, 1897. IN T E R COLON IAL CR ICKET . NEW SOUTH WALES v. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. (Continued from page 7.) Played at Adelaide on Deo. 19, 21, 22 and 23.—New South Wales won by 51 runs. F uth Australia on Wednesday Dec. 23, jiad two wickets to fall, and was 5 runs behind. Jones made three hits—a 5 and two 4’s, but his partner did nothing, and the match ended in a few minutes. N ew S outh W ales . First inning’s. F. A . Iredale, b Jones A. C. Mackenzie, c Reed­ man, b Evans ................... H . Donnan, b Jones ........... A . Coningham, b Jones ... 8. E. Gregory, b Evans Second innings, c D a r l i n g , b Travers ...........21 c A. Jarvis, b Jones ...........14 c and b Evans ... 6 c Hill, b Jones ... 1 c Giffen, b Evans 3 run out ........... 3 J.J.Kelly,cF.Jarvis, b Jones 50 M. A . Noble, c Darling, b E v an s.................................. 5 c and b Evans C. T. B. Turner, c Darling, b Evans .......................... 9 T. W . Garrett, run out ... 13 69 T. R. McKibbin, not out ... 7 W . Howell, b Jones ........... 3 B 2, lb 3, nb 1 ........... 6 b Reedman.......... c Jones, b Reed­ man .................. not out.................. b Reedman........... BS, lb 7 Total ...................162 Total ...237 S outh A ustralia . J. Darling, c Donnan, b M cKibbin ...................... 19 lbw, b McKibbin 0 F. Jarvis, b McKibbin ... 7 b McKibbin ... 0 J. J. Lyons, b Howell ... 78 b McKibbin ... 1 C. Hill, c and b McKibbin 49 c Coningham, b M T. R. Bailey, c M cKib- McKibbin ... 51 bin, b Turner ................ 5 c Kelly, b Turner 45 G. Giffen, c Kelly, b M e- c Howell, b M c­ Kibbin .......................... 3 Kibbin ................ 12 J. Reedman, b McKibbin... 0 b McKibbin ...2 6 A . E. H. Evans, c Kelly, b c Mackenzie, b M cK ib b in .......................... 11 McKibbin ... 4 A . H. Jarvis, c and b M c­ Kibbin ......................... 8 b Howell ............ 0 E. Jones, b Howell ......... 4 notout.................... 13 J. Travers, not out ......... 0 st Kelly, b M c­ Kibbin ........... 0 Lb 1, w 2 ................... 3 B 2, lb 6, w 1 9 Total ...187 Total ...161 N ew S outh W ales . O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Jones ... ... 25*1 6 1!) 5 ... ... 24 3 76 2 Jarvis ... ... 17 2 54 0 ... ... 3 2 1 0 Giffen ... ... 1 1 0 0 ... ... 13 1 17 0 Evans ... ... 12 2 *17 4 .. ... 20 1 59 3 Travers ... 5 3 7 0 ... ... 9 1 24 1 44 0 15 3 Howell ... McKibbin Coningham Turner... Reedman Evans bowled a no-ball. S outh A ustralia . O. M. R. W . O. . 2 5 6 60 2 .......... 23 5 53 . 24-1 6 51 7 .......... 23-3 5 74 8 ... 4 0 7 0 ........... 3 0 . 18 2 68 1 ............ 3 1 Garrett ........... 1 0 i Turner bowled two wides and Garrett one. M. R. W . 1 15 0 5 1 0 NEW SOUTH WALES v . VICTORIA. Played at Melbourne on December 26, 28, 29 and 30.—New South Wales won by nine wickets. The rain played a most important part in this match, and handicapped Victoria so heavily that they had no possible chance of winning. On the first day New South Wales ran up 277 for five wickets, and there was a reasonable prospect that the full score would amount to something like 400 runs at least, and if the weather had held good there was no particular reason why Victoria should not make as many as this. But rain fell after the first day’s play had ended, and the result was a Melbourne wicket of the good old-fashioned type on the following morning. It recovered a little after­ wards, but not enough to give Victoria any hopes of winning after following on, and under the circumstances it was by no means a bad performance to just save the innings defeat. At present many of the Australians who were in England last summer still con­ tinue to play a remarkably careful, not to say slow game. Graham is perhaps the only exception. It was remarked on all sides that in the N.S.W. v. Victoria match the members of the 1896 team had to play themselves in, and that nearly all of them were obviously stale. Nsverthe- less this did not prevent them from showing some very fine cricket. The New South Wales first innings opened very slowly indeed. Donnan, who went in first with Mackenzie, a rising player, was not to be hurried; in an hour he had made 6, and at the end of an hour and ten minutes he got into double figures amidst loud applause. But by this time he was thoroughly at home, and the re3t of his fine innings of 50 took him only a comparatively short time to make. There is no doubt whatever that his slow batting was of the greatest value to his side. Iredale, who scored 54, was never quite at his best; Gregory, after being in diffi­ culties for some time, showed some of his old form in making 68, while Kelly batted in a style which came as a surprise to the spectators, who had not hitherto regarded him as a batsman. The best innings of the side was that of 38 made by Coning­ ham, for he had to bat on a terrible wicket, and, while his partners could do nothing at all, he hit with great deter­ mination. Trumble, who had not met wifh great success with the ball on the first day, was exceedingly difficult; he took four of the last five wickets for 18 runs. It was evident from the way in which the bowlers made the ball turn that the Victoria batsmen would have great difficulty in making runs. Before stumps were drawn they did fairly well, scoring 58 for three wickets. On the third morning of the match the other seven wickets only increased this total by 41. Nobody except Graham (34) and Worrall (21) could do anything with McKibbin and Howell. In the follow on Worrall and Graham again batted well, but the only other man who made a good score was C. McLeod, who, with considerable good fortune, succeeded in putting on 78. In this innings Coningham met with re­ markable success as a bowler, taking six wickets for 38, so that he could greatly congratulate himself on his all-round play during the match. It is noteworthy that Turner met with no success with the ball, but it by no means follows that his days as a bowler are over. N ew S outh W ales . H. Donnan, c Jones, b T. W Garrett, c Gra- Harry ..................50 ham, b Carlton ..7 A . C. Mackenzie, c C. T. B. Turner, c Mc- Graham, b Carlton 19 Leod, b Trumble ... 0 F.A.Iredale,cWorrall, T. R. McKibbin, c b Trumble .......... 54 Graham, b Trumble 3 M. A. Noble, c Trott, W . Howell, not o u t.. 1 b M cLeod.................. 8 B 5, lb 5, w 3 ... 13 S. E. Gregory, c Carl- — ton, b T r o tt..........68 Total ...........312 J. J. Kelly, b Trumble 51 A . Coningham, st Johns, b Trumble ... 38 Second innings: H. Donnan, st Johns, b Trott, 2; A. Mackenzie, not out, 2 : F. Iredale, not out, 4. Total, 8. V ictoria . First innings. C. McLeod, st Kelly, b Mc­ Kibbin .................................. 4 J. Worrall, c Noble, b Howell..................................21 G. H. S. Trott, c Donnan, b H owell.................................. Second innings. c Kelly, b Con­ ingham ...........78 c McKibbin, b Howell ...........27 c Howell, b Con­ ingham ........... 0 H. Graham, c Garrett, b M cK ibbin ..........................34 c & b Coningham 33 W . Bruce, c Iredale, b M c­ Kibbin ...........................................12 c Coningham, b McKiboin ... 13 F. Laver, c Gregory, b Howell.................................. J. Harry, b Howell ........... H. Stuckey, c Iredale, b M c­ Kibbin........... ................... 4 J. Carlton, lbw, b Howell... 2 A. E. Johns, c and b M c­ Kibbin.................................. 2 H. Trumble, not o u t ........... 5 Extras ................... 2 b Coningham ... 5 c Turner, b Con­ ingham ...........18 notout.................. 19 b McKibbin ... 7 c Gregory, b M c­ Kibbin ........... 7 c sub, b Coning­ ham ......................4 Extras ... 9 Total .. ... 99 Total ...220 N ew S outh W ales . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Trumble .......... 34 4 89 5 ........... 3*3 2 4 0 Carlton .......... 38 12 83 2 .. T r o t t .................. 15 4 34 1 ........... 4 2 4 1 B ruce.................. 10 3 20 0 .. McLeod .......... 14 5 31 1 .. Harry................... 8 0 27 i .. Worrall ........... 4 0 13 0 .. L aver.................. 1 0 2 0 .. Trumble bowled two wides, Bruce and Conningham one each. McKibbin Coningham . Howell ... . V ictoria . O. M.R. W . ... 17 4 47 5 ... ... 3 0 13 0 ... ... 13 3 37 5 ... Turner ... O. M .R . W . 31-4 6 80 3 22 8 33 6 21 3 55 1 15 1 38 0 VICTORIA v . SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Played at Melbourne on Jan. 1, 2, 4 aul 5. Victoria won by 49 runs. Remarkable in many ways, this match will long be remembered by Australian cricketers. Jones nearly created a panic at the beginning of the first innings of Victoria by bowling Bruce and Graham before they had scored, but being kept on too long without a rest he became easy. Although the wicket was excellent, there did not seem much chance that the Victoria score would be at all large, and matters went from bad to worse until eight wickets were down for 141. On a batting wicket this was very unpromising, more especially as, of the three batsmen who were still left to dispute the next two wickets, O’Halloran and Roche had been chosen for their bowling alone, while batting had never been considered as at all in the line of Johns, the wicket­ keeper. But each of these three men accomplished an excellent performance. From 141 the score was taken to 218 by Roche and O’Halloran, so that when the ninth wicket fell Victoria was in an infi­ nitely better position. The best perfor­ mance of the innings was yet to come, when Johns joined O’Halloran, and when stumps were drawn the total had been taken to 336, both men being still in. This was increased on the following morning to 354, when Johns brought his splendid innings of 57 to a conclusion by a run out. O’Halloran carried his bat for 128. His batting, while not faultless, was excellent. It was his first inter­ colonial match. Until the ninth wicket fell, a wonderful innings of 70 by Lyons, N E X T ISSUE, THUR SDAY , MARCH 25.