Cricket 1899

156 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. M ay 25, 1899. SUSSEX v. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Played at Brighton on May 22 and 23. Gloucestershire won by 4 wickets. Although rain fell heavily on the night before the Bank Holiday, the morning was fine, and play was continued without interruption until the evening. Dr. Grace won the toss, and, undeterred by what had happened to Gloucestershire in the Yorkshire match, decided to give Sussex the first opportunity of seeing what the wicket was like. A t the end of the day he had no reason to be dissatisfied with himself for doing this, since the score made by his team was nearly double that of Sussex. Mr. Fry, who is not in luck’s way just now, was out with promptitude, a id the other tnree great bats in the team did nothing remarkable, although Ranjitsiahji made a very useful 30. On the Gloucestershire side Townsend and W rathall made the stand of the day, and it was chiefly due to their efforts that the Sussex total was exceeded by 60 runs. A t the close of the day Sussex had knocked off five of these without losing a wicket. On Tuesday morning a surprise was in store for the Gloucestershire bowlers. Killick, taking his life in his hands, played a brilliant game, and with Collins as a partner—almost a sleeping partner—put on runs very quickly. His 65 runs were made in an hour and twenty-five minutes, while Collins, whose steady play was of very gn-at use to the county, made 12 in 65 minutes. Afterwards Ranjitsinhji was in such tine form that the task which was given to Gioucester- shire in their second innings was not by any means easy. But once more W rathall hit with much bo’d- ness, and in fifty minutes hit up 58. Thanks to him and Mr. W . S. A. Brown, Gloucestershire won fairly eaaily, although if Wrathall had not been missed at slip when he had scored ten, the result might have been different. S u sse x . First innings. C. B. Fry, st Board, b Paish 1 G. Brann, c Hale, b Paish 12 K. S. Kanjitsinhji, c Troup. b Grace .......................... 30 W . L. Murdoch, st Board, b Paish .................................. 17 A.F.Somerset. cHemingway b Paish ........................... 8 Killick. c Wrathall, b Faish 7 A . Collins, run out ........... 6 Cox, b Townsend................... 0 Parris, b Townsend ........... 8 Butt, c and b Townsend ... 2 Bland, not out ................... 3 B 2, lb 1 ........................... 3 Second innings, st Board, b Paish 9 lbw, b Paish ... 10 c Brown, b Paish 51 c Townsend, b Paish ...........15 c Wrathall, b Townsend ... 10 c bale, b Grace... 65 c Paish, b Grace 12 0 0 4 0 7 run out... b Townsend not out................... c Brown, b Paish B 1,1b 6 ... Total 97 G lou cestersh ibe . Total ...183 First i-mings. W.G.Grace.cKillick.b Bland 11 W . '1roup,c Killick, b Parris 19 W . S. A. brown, b Cox G. H Be’.oe, b Cox ........... W . McG. Hemipgtfay, I Bland ................................ C. L. Townsend, b Parris.. Wrathall. st Butt, b Cox .. Hale, b Bland .......... .. E. L. Thomas, b Bl-iLd ... Board, not out ................. Paish, b Bland ................. Byes................................. Second innings, c Parris, b Cox .. 6 b Killick ...........19 not out.................. 25 c Brann, b Killick 5 c Ranjitsinhji, b C o x ................... 3 c butt, b Cox ... 0 cC o.li's,b Killick 58 not out................... 7 B 1, lb 1 Total .........................157 Total (6 wkts) 125 S u ssex . First innings. Second inniogs. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Townsend ... 14 5 27 3 ............................. 31 9 782 p.iah ...........22*1 5 55 5 ............ 294 6 49 5 Brown ............. 4 0 6 0 ............ 13 5 18 0 Grace ............. 4 2 6 1 ............ 15 4 31 2 G lou cestersh ire . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R . W . O M . R. W . Cox ... ...........23 10 26 3 ... . . 19 6 53 3 Bland ........... 33 2 12 6 i 5 ... . . 17 10 22 0 Collins ...........11 5 18 0 ... . 3 1 8 0 Parris ...........21 7 42 2 ... . . 3 0 9 0 Killick . . 8 1 31 3 MIDDLESEX v. SOMERSET, w. f l o w e r s ’ b e n e f it m a t c h . Played at Lord’s on May 23. A OAME FINISHED IN TH REE HOURS AND FIVE M INUTES. Middlesex won by an innings and 7 runs. The professional to whom the Whit-Monday match at Lord’s is allotted for a benefit is gent rally re­ garded by his friends as a very fortunate man. The only thing that ia necessary to ensure complete success for him was moderately fine weather. But what can be said of weather which prevents a ball from being bowled on the M onday! The players waited about for hours on the bare chance that a little play would be possible in order that Flowers might reap at least some harvest on the Monday, but it was in vain, and the game had to be adjourned until the following morning, when the wicktt was enormously in favour of the bowlers. Somers t went in - and went out. Their batting broke down in such a remar 1 able manner against the bowling of Trott and J. T. Hearne, that the first five wickets fell for five runs, two of which were byes. The rot did not stop here, and soon eight wickets were down for eight runs. Thants, however, to some very determined hitting t y Mr. Woods, the total of the innings was not a record for its smallness. Middlesex got within a few runs cf this for the first wicket, but afterwards the batting broke down almost as badly as that of Somerset, Mr. C. P. Foley taking the place of Mr. Woods as the saviour of the si£e. It may be remarked that Tyler had a wonderful analysis, which, all thing* considered, compares favourably with that of the two Middlesex bowlers. Nevertheless Middlesex had a lead of 51 on the first inniogs. This to the Somerset men must have seemed collossal when their wickets in the second innings began to fall with startling rapidity. Again the first five wickets fell for 5 runs, and although the total for eight wickets was not as small as in the first innings, it only amounted to 18. A stand was then made by Nichols and Mr. Newton, but they could not avert the innings defeat. The match was begun and finished on Tuesday, and, deducting intervals for luncheon, the play lasted three hours and five minutes. To Flowers the result of the match is nothing short of a calamity. S om erset . First innings. Second innings F. A . Phillips, b Hearne ... 1 b T rott................. 0 Robson, b bearne ........... 2 b Hearne ........... 2 R. C. N. Palairet, run out 0 b T rott................. 0 W . N. Roe, b Trott ........... 0 b Trott................... 0 S.M .J.W oods,)bw,b Heaine 20 cRawlin.bHearne 6 W . Trask, b H e a m e ........... H. T. Stanley, b Hearne ... 0 lbw, b Trott 0 0 b Trott.................. 5 Nich .Is, b Trott ................... 0 cRoche, b Hearne 18 Tyler, c Hearne, b Trott ... 0 c Siogdon,b Trott 0 A. E. Newton, b Trott 7 lbw, b Trott 12 Gill, not out ................... 2 not out.................. 0 B 2, lb 1 ................... 3 Bye.................. 1 Total ................... 35 T o ta l.......... 44 M id d le se x . H .B. Hayman, c Stan­ ley, b Tyler ...........13 P. F. Warner, c and b T yler..........................14 H. H. Cobb, b Robson 2 F. G. J. Ford, b Tyler 2 Rawlin, c Stanley, b T yler..........................11 Trott (A. B.), st New­ ton, b Tyler ........... 0 Heaine (J. T. Trott .......... S om erset . First innings. O. M. R. W . 8 3 14 5 . 7 1 18 4 , C.P.Foley, c Phillips, b T yler.......................... 20 J.H Stogdon,cNewton, b R obson................... 2 G. MacGregor, c and b Tyle r .......................... 3 Hearne (J.T .),n ot out 15 Roche,cWoods,b Tyler 0 B 2, w 2 ........... 4 Total ........... 86 Second innings. O. M. R. W . . ... 8-3 1 30 3 . ... 8 4 13 7 M iddlbsbx . O. M. R. W . 2 0 5 0 1Tyler Gill . Robson ... 19 7 35 2 . Gill and Tyler each bowled a wide. O. M. R .W . 17-2 3 42 8 Mr. Bennett hit boldly, and in the end Derbyshire had to make a fairly large total if they wanted to win. A bad start was made, for Mr. W right was promptly run out, but after this there was never any doubt that the northern county would win. Bagshaw p’aytd a particularly good innings. H am psh ire . First innings. A. J. T<. Bill, c Bulme, b Davidson .......................24 Parton, c W iight, b David­ s' n ................. .. 12 E. M Sprot, lbw. bHulme 23 A . Delme-Radcliffe, c H u m -, b Bestwick............ 6 HAMPSHIRE v. DERBYSHIRE. Played at Southampton on May 22, 23 and 24. Derbyshire won by seven wickets. There was a full day’s cricket at Southampton on Monday, and although the wicket was not too easy, the bowling did not rise superior to the batting, so that ntarly four hundred runs were put on during the day for the loss of eighteen wickets. At the close of the day Hampshire had much the worst of the game. They had a weaker team than usual, and although several men did pretty well. Ho one made a score large enough to swell the total very consider­ ably. On the other hand, the best batsmen on the Derbyshire side all came off with the exception of Storer ; and although there was a collapse at the end of the day, the county, with two wickets in hand, was leading by 81 runs. Bagshaw, Mr. Wright and Sugg all played an excellent gam e; the two former put on 86 for the first wicket. The innings was by no means finished, for Davidson and Hancock hit hard for the ninth wicket and put on 72 runs in seventy-five minutes. Hampshire were 155 runs behind when they began their second innings, and for a time it seemed that they would still be behind when the end of it came. But thanks to good batting by Colonel Spens, Webb and E. M. Sprot, they gradually began to overhaul their opponents. Afterwards Soar and W ebb, b H u lm e ................... 2 Col. Spens, c Storer, b Hig- 8 ear, b Hulme ................... D. A. Steele, c Chatterton, b Davids n .......................... R. A. Bennett, b Hulme ... Baldwin, b Hulme ........... Tate, not o u t ........................ B 7 ,lb 4 .......................... Second innings. b Testwick...........18 c ‘■ torer.b Hulme 4 b St< rer .......... 37 c Higson, b Da­ vidson ........... 6 c * hatterton, b H ancock.......... 46 c Higson, b Da­ vidson ...........38 c Sugg, b Higson 60 b Higson ........... 1 b Bestwick.......... 47 b B ig-on .......... 11 not out ........... 9 B II, lb 3 ... 14 Total .. ................155 D erbysh ire . Total ...291 Second innings. , 2 77 . 17 17 20 First innings. L. G. Wright, c W ebb, b Baldwin .......................... 41 run out Bagshaw, b S oar...................77 not out............. Chatterton, b Soar ...........20 b Baldwin Storer. cBennett, b Baldwin 17 b Tate .. !!! T. A. Higson, b Baldwin ... 29 not out........... Sugg, b b i l l ........... ...........34 W . S. Eadie, b Baldwin ... 5 Hulme, c Sprot, b Baldwin 0 Davidson, b Baldw in...........43 Hancock, not out...................43 Bestwick, c Steele, b Hill ... 0 L eg -b y e........................... 1 Extras Total..........................310 Total (3 wkts.) 137 H am psh ire . First innings. O. M.R. W . Hulme ........... 22-2 5 60 5 .. Higson ........... 25 5 40 1 .. Davidson ... 17 9 29 3 Bestwick........... 7 1 15 1 Hancock 11 Storer ... 6 Second innings. O. M.R. W . .2 8 5 95 1 15 3 34 3 2 43 2 4 46 2 3 30 1 1 29 1 ... 16 ... 19 D erbysh ire . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. Baldwin .. ... 34 4 113 6 ... ... 12 0 Soar........... ... 23 6 64 2 ... ... 3 0 T a te......... .. 13 5 33 0 ... ... 5 2 Steele ... ... 14 4 29 0 ... ... 3 0 H ill........... .. 15 2 47 2 ... ... 7 1 Sprot ... 7 0 88 0 ... ... 11 2 WARWICKSHIRE v. WORCESTER­ SHIRE. Played at Birmingham on May 22, 23 and 24. Abandoned. There was no play in this match on Monday, and on Tuesday the game had to be abandoned for the day after lunch. Worcestershire, thanks chiefly to 32 by Mr. W . L. Foster, had then obtained 73 runs for the loss of four wicketa. There was no play yesterday. W orcestersh ire . G. Bromley-Martin, b F ie ld ........................... 9 W . L. Foster, b Dick- H. K . Foster, c Lilley, b S an tall...................15 R. E, Foster, not out 9 Arnold, c Devey, b Santall ... .'. ... 6 E x tras................... 2 73 Total (4 wkts) Wheldon, Straw, E. Bromley-Martin, Burrows, Bird, and Wilson did not bat. W ar w ic k sh ir e . H. W . Bainbridge, T. S. Fishwick, Quaife (W . G.), Diver, Devey, Lilley, Quaife (W .), Charlesworth, Santall, Dickens, and Field. W orcestershire . O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . Santall ... 25 10 39 2 Field.............. 8 4 12 1 D ickens... 17.2 7 20 1 |