Cricket 1898

F eb . 24, 18b8 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 29 1893 July 17, IB, 19, Lord’s, drawn. Aug. 14,15, 16, Oval, England, in. and 43 runs. Aug. 24, 25, 26, Manchester, drawn. 1894 Dec. 14, 15, 17. 18, 19, 20, Sydney, Eng., 10 runs. 1894^5 Dec. 29, 31, Jan. 1, 2, 3, Melbourne, Eng., 94 r. 1895 Jan. 11, 12, 14, 15, Adelaide, Australia, 382 runs. Feb. 1, 2. 4, Sydney, Australia, in. and 147 runs. Mar. 1,2, 4,5,6, Melbourne, England. 6 wickets. 1896 June 22, 23, 24, Lord's, England, 6 wickets. July 16, 17,18, Manchester, Australia, 3 wickets. Aug. 11,12,13, Oval, England, 66 runs. 1897 Dec. 13, 14, 15, 16,17, Sydney, England, 9 wkts. 1893 Jan. 1, 3, 4, 5, Melbourne, Aus , in. and 55 runs. Jan. 14,15,17,18; 19, Adelaide, Aus., in. and 13 r. Jan. 29, 31, Feb. 1. 2, Melbourne, Aus., 8 wkts. THE NEW SOUTH WALES MATCH (Return,) SEVENTEENTH OP THE TOXIE. A WONDERFUL GAME. Played at Sydney on Feb. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11. New South Wales won by 239 runs. Without any rest to speak of, the Englishmen began this match by losing the toss and fielding out for a day and a-half. Richardson was absent owing to an injured finger, so that the weakness of the bowling was even more manifest than before. During the first day’s play a fine exhibition of cricket was given by Mackenzie, who when he likes can hit very hard ; he was only batting for two hours and twenty-five minutes for his score of 130, which is an almost mar­ vellous rate of scoring as things go now­ adays in Australia. It was, moreover, a good innings. The only other men who did anything of importance were Pye, who was not out at the close of the day’s play, D jnnan and Noble. For a change Donnan departed from his old methods and scored rapidly, but the majority of the batsmen were not to be hurried. As has so often happened in the previous matches in the first day’s play, the Australians scored just under three hundred with a few more wickets to fall—in this instance three. On the present form of the visitors this was somewhat serious, and much worse was to come, for the tail played up in the boldest manner. Pye increased his score from 40 to 80, and was still undefeated when the innings closed for 415 —a very different state of affairs from seven wickets for 293. Howell, the last man, knocked up 48 in three quarters of an hour. When the visitors went in it was found that MacLaren had hurt his foot badly, and accordingly he did not go to the wickets all day. Mason and Wainwright were the first pair. Mason was soon out, hut the latter at last got into his stride and played an innings of 50 which was quite worthy of him. Ranjitsinhji, who has for the present given up making his hundreds, was well set when he was ou t; Hayward was in something like his Oval l° rJa>and Druce had exceeded his usual by 27 when stumps were drawn, and was still not out. The total was 227 for six wickets. In the ordinary course of tilings this would have been increased on he next day by twenty or thirty only, ( i°n occasion MacLaren was one ? the tail. Also Druce was in very fine orm. The result of this was that the . wo batsmen made a splendid stand, and H ead their side having to follow on as se6med probable, they were only 28 l uus behind when the innings came to an end. MacLaren, who batted under diffi­ culties, nevertheless played a great game for 61, while Druce surpassed himself, and scored his first hundred during the tour in a big match. When stumps were drawn on the third day there was a prospect that the match would last for an unconscionable time, for New South Wales had only lost two wickets in their second innings and were 168 runs on. Donnan went in first as usual, and carried his bat for 55, and Mackenzie again played good cricket. Pye was, as in the first innings, still unbeaten. On the fourth day the game dragged its weary length along, and the Australians were batting all the time for the loss of only six more wickets. They increased their total from 140 to 452. A complete com­ mand of the bowling was obtained by Gregory, who was in his very best form in making his 171. When eight wickets had fallen Newell and McICibbin came together and knocked the tired bowling all over the field, and were both not out at close of play, the former with 54, the latter with 31. On the fifth morning McKibbin was soon out, so that the end seemed near. But Howell, who like MacLaren batted under difficulties on account of a bad leg, quite upset all cal­ culations. While his partner was making nine runs he made 54, and in a little over three-quarters of an hour he had put on no less than 95. His hitting was very hard indeed. In his total four 5’s and fourteen 4’s were included. The last wicket put on 109 runs. Never was a side set a more hopeless task than the Englishmen, for they had to make 603 to win, and never was a task entered upon in a more remarkable way. The first two batsmen wereWainwright and MacLaren. The former, no longer a passenger in the team, showed how well he has played himself into form by scoring 68 and helping his partner to put up about a hundred and fifty for the first wicket. After Wainwright left Rmjitsinbji came in and completed the discomfiture of the bowlers, who were made to look as easy as possible. When stumps were drawn on the evening of day number 5 no less than 258 of the 603 runs required to win had been knocked off, so that with nine wickets still in hand the balance had been reduced to 314. There was thus a chance, and not an entirely remote chance, that the victory would after all be gained by the much tried Englishmen. There was yet a possibility that the match might last into a seventh day, but this was speedily lessened when Rmjitsinhji, who had made 42 overnight, was beauti­ fully caught at square leg for an addition of two runs. Tiien almost immediately afterwards MacLaren was bowled for 140, of which only five were made since the resumption of the game; his 135 on the previous afternoon was a splendid performance in every way. From this time the game went entirely in favour of the Australians, the only batsman who did himself justice being Hayward, and the innings collapsed with surprising quickness. Noble was in fine form with the ball. Although the visitors were beaten by no less than 239 runs, it was au splendi 1 performance to make a score of 363 after fielding against nearly a thou­ sand runs. N ew S outh W at . es . First innings. Second inning*. H. Donnan. c Board, b Wainwright ....................41 c Hirst, b Hearns 59 F. A.. Iredale, c StodJart, b Brigg*............................... 2 b Hearne ........... 7 M. A. Noble, c MacLaren, b Haywird....................... 34 b Hearne ........... A.C. Mackenzie, c Hayward, b Hearne ....................... 130 cConiogham (sub) b Mason..........52 S. E. Gregory,can 1b Mason 25c Hayward, b Briggs ......... 171 V. Trumper, b Mason . ... 4 b Hearne .......... 23 L. W. Pye, not out ... ... 80 b Hearne ..........31 J. J. Kelly, b Stoddart ... 14 c Hirst, b Mason 4 A. Newell, c Hirst, b Stod­ dart ............................... 6 not out................. €8 T. R. McKibbin, c Druce, b Briggs ........................20 b Hearne ...........39 W. Howell, b Mason..........48 c W<tinwright, b Mason ......... 9> Extras ..........11 Extras............17 Total ...415 Total ...574 M b . S to d d a rt’s Team. First innings. Second innings. J. R. Mason, c Howell, b N o b le ..............................11 c Gregory,b Noble 6 Wainwright, c Howell, b N oM e.............................50 b McKibbin ... 63 K S. Ranjitsinbji, c Gregory b Noble ......................37 c McKibbin, b HoweJl ......... 41 Hayward.cHowell,bNoble 63 notout..................64 Hirst, c Newell, b Noble ... 4 cGregory,bNoble 1 N. F. Druce, c Noble, b Trumper ..................... 109 c Kelly, b No\»le 12 A. E. Stoddart, c Iredale, b McKibbin ........................ 5 b Noble ........... 5 Briggs, c Mackenzie, b Mc- Kiobiu............................. 18 c and b Noble ... 0 A. C. MacLaren. b Noble ..61 b Howell ...........140 Board, c M ickenzie, b Mc­ Kibbin ............................ 14 b Noble ........... 9 Hearne (J.T.). not out ... 6 b Howell ........... 1 Extras ......... 9 Extras.. .. 13 Total.. .. 387 Total ..363 N ew S outh W a le s . First innings. Hearne Briggs......... Hayward ... Waiawright M tson........ Stoddart Ranjitsinhji First ianings. Noble ... Howell... MeKibbin Newell... . Pye Donuan Trumper Second innings. R. W. R. W. 96 1 ......... ... 125 6 93 2 ......... ... 101 1 58 1 ......... ... 106 0 32 1 .......... 5t 3 ......... 120 3 50 2 .......... 17 0 ......... Druce .’. 1 0 art ’ s Team. Second inninrs. R. W. R. VV. 181 6 .......... ... 117 6 45 0 .......... ... 61 3 108 3 ......... ... 9J 1 31 0 .......... 28 0 .......... 9 0 ......... 9 0 21 1 .......... THE MATCH AGAINST SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE UNIVERSITIES (XIII.) EIGHTEENTH OF THE TOCR. Played at Sydney on February 12 and 14. Abandoned. As it d id not matter a twopence whether the Englishmen went in first or not in this match, Stoddart was able to win the toss. Hearne, Richardson and MacLaren were absent from the team, while Priestley played to make up the eleven. In the course of the first day’s play nearly everyone made runs, and Storer only missed his hundred by eight A total of 343 was scored for the loss of seven wickets, and on the following morning the innings was declared closed. R»in fell heavily. The home team was able to make 76 for six wickets (Moses N E X T ISSUE , T H U R S D A Y , M A R C H 31.