Cricket 1897

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Such a decision is unusual, to say the least of it. B e f o r e the above match was played, Lohmann, when asked what he thought would be the extent of the Western Province victory, replied:— “ I cannot understand you up here; you all regard it as a certainty that the Western Province are going to meet the Transvaal in the final. Cricket is most uncertain, and you can never calculate on anything till the match is over. Natal will give us a good game; it is certainly no walk over.” The results shewed clearly that Lohmann had not over-estimated the merits of the Natal team, despite its defeat. T h e members of Mr. Priestley’s team, with the exception of Mr. Stone, who had been left behind, as he had not entirely recovered from an attack of typhoid fever at Antigua, arrived in England on April 14. On the whole the tour was a great success, but as regards the cricket it is a pity that so much depended on Mr. fcitoddart both in batting and bowling. Indeed, if he had passed the winter m England, West Indian cricketers might perhaps have thought that English cricket was on the downward grade. As it was Mr. Stoddart made no less than six hundreds, scored 1,079 runs in all, and easily headed the bowling averages. After him, longo intervallo, came Mr. R. C. N. Palairet and Mr. C. A. Beldam as batsmen, and Mr. W. Williams and Mr. Woods as bowlers.