Cricket 1899

198 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME J u n e 15, 1899 SUSSEX v . MIDDLESEX. Played at Lord’s on June 8, 9 and 10. Middlesex won by five wickets. The admirable form which had of late been dis­ played by the Sussex men, and the recent uncertainty of the Australian contingent of the Middlesex team, left considerable doubt as to whether the victorious career of Middlesex would not be checked at Lord’s by the county at which not so long ago the finger of scorn was persistently pointed. As the wickets at Lord’s have not the reputation just at present of wearing well towards the end of the match, it seemed very fortunate for Sussex when they won the toss. A noble beginning was made by Fry and Brann, who made the bowling look very simple. For once the latter scored the faster, although Frv was by no means playing a slow game. Eventually Bawlin had to be called upon for about the first time this season. But the hundred went up and stillthe score mounted, and it was not until 135 that the first wicket fell. Fry being out to Hearne for a splendid 72. Brann did not long survive him. His first fifty runs were made at a good rate, while his last eieht took him three-quarters of an hour to put together ; no doubt he was getting his second wind preparatory to putting on a hundred or tw o; he played admirable cricket. W ith Killick as a partner Ranjitfrinhji played in his form of 1896. making his runs all round the wicket, and finding out every weak spot in the fielding; bis cricket was alto­ gether delightful. W ith the total at 272 the third wicket fell, and everything seemed prosperous for Sussex. But once more °ussex showed that only a few of the same are unable to aspire to the honour of belonging to the tail, and. despite the brilliant cri’ket of Ranjitsinbji. the innings concluded somewhat abruptly. Friday’s cricket was remarkable for the brilliant batting of F. G. J. Ford and Albert Trott, the latter of whom had speedily recovered from his failure in M.C.C. v. Australians. Ford h^d not been himself this year, and when he first went to the wickets he was much slower than usual to make runs, his first 50 taking him an hour and a half, which for him was a very long time indeed. But when he once began to feel quite comfortable he became the big hitter of former days, and the Sussex bowlers were helpless against him . W hile he was in with Trott he left the Australian far behind, scoring 70 againpt the latter’s 16 in forty m iru'es, and, despite his some­ what slow beginning, his score of 1P0 only took him three hours to put together. By the time that he was out the Supaex team had become disorganised. The fielding, which is never remarkable except in the case of individuals, fell off greatly, and the bowling was simple. It was then that Trott began to make his presence felt. He did not hesitate to lift the ball, even at the risk o f spoiling the paint on the pavilion, and his drives almost invariablv got through ihe field. He was only batting for a few minutes over two hours. A sa result of his display and that of Mr. Ford Middlesex bad a lead of 79 runs on Friday n’ght. There seemed very little chance that the game would be finished when Sussex began their second innings on Saturday morning, and when the runs were knocked off without the loss o f a wicket, and Fry and Brann continued to treat a’l the bowling with severity, everything pointed to a draw. The Middlesex bow lirg was collared, and in an hour and twenty minutes the hundred went up. Both men were in great form, and Fry hit with even more than his usual vigour ; in a coup’e of overs from Boche he made five hits to the boundary. At last when Hearne and Rawlin and the two Australians hed aU proved ineffective. A . E Strddart. who by permispion of the Sussex captain had been allowed to take the place of Dr. Thornton on Friday morning, after Ihe latter had fielded all day on Thurpday, succeeded in gettirg Brann caught in the slips for a fine innings of 58—the same total as he had made in the first innings. After this came a breakdown which has seldom been sur­ passed even by the Sussex team. Mr. Fry once more just missed his hundred—his 94 was put together in two hours and twenty minutes—and nobody else did anything against Hearne and Trott. Thus Middlesex most unexpectedly bad to make only 134 to win. S u sse x . First innings. C. B. Fry, c Trott, b Heame 72 G. Brann, b Trott ...........£8 K 8 Ranjitsinhji, c Rawlin, b Heame ...........................120 K illick, b Trott ...................44 W . Newham, lbw, b Rawlin 4 W . L. Murdoch, c Roche, b Trott ................................... 0 A. Collins, not out ...........23 Cox, st MacGregor, b Trott 6 Butt, c sub., b Trott ...........13 Tate, c MacGregor, b Trott 8 Bland, c Trott, DRoche ... 9 B 9, lb 21... ... ...........30 Total ..§87 Second innings, c Chinnery, b Hearne ...........94 c Rawlin, b Stod­ dart ................... 18 b Trott.................... 9 b Trott.................... 2 b Trott.................... 3 st MacGregor, b Trott ........... 1 cRawlin,bHeame 5 c Ford, b Heam e 1 lbw, b Trott ... 19 not out...................10 b Trott.................. 0 B 4, lb 5, w 1 10 Total.........212 Second innings, c Cox, b Tate ... M id d le se x . First innings. H. B. Hayman, b Bland ... P. F. Warner, c Butt, b B la n d ...................................16 b T ate... H . B. Chinnery, c Butt, b Tate ..............................46 F. G. J. Ford, c Fry, b Tate 160 Rawlin, b H a n d ..........................................................30 A . E. Stoddart, b Killick ... 0 Trott (A. E.), run out .. 123 H. H. Cobb, b B land...... 13 G. MacGregor, c Newham, b Bland .......................11 Hearne (J. T.), st Butt, b Banjitsinbji ...............22 Roche, not out .............. 10 B 16, lb 8, nb 5 .29 B 4, lb 1, w 1 . c Cox, b Tate b T ate........... b Cox ........... not o u t......... not out Total... ...466 Total (5 wkts)136 S u ssex . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . H earne........... 49 16 1032 .............. 34 13 64 3 Trott ........... 69 17 1326 ............. 25.1 7 Roche ........... 17.1 4 50 1 ........... 16 R aw lin........... 25 9 52 1 ........... 7 Ford ........... 7 2 200 .............. Stoddart... 6 Stoddart bowled a wide. 6 44 0 1 14 0 3 12 1 Tate ......... Bland ......... Cox ......... K illick ......... Ranjitsinbji.. Brann .......... Collins M id d le s e x . First innings. O. M. R. W . 28 8 98 2 47 11 138 5 0 1 1 0 0 Second innings. O. M. R. W . 8 0 17 2 14.4 1 0 18 18 3 3 4 0 22 Bland bowled live no-balls and a wide. NOTTS v. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A SCORE OF 391 FOR TH E FIRST W ICKET BY NOTTS. Played at Bristol on June 8, 9 and 10. Drawn. The reproaches which have so often been hurled at the head of Notts men for their slow scoring would have been very greatly out of place on Thursday and Friday last. Shrewsbury and A . O. Jones took charge of the bowling, which, without Jessop, Roberts, and W .G., was even weaker than usual, and between them made runs with great rapidity. The former played his usual pretty and sound game, while the lat­ ter hit very hard at times. It was not until the end of the day was approaching that Jones was out for 2c0, made in four hours and a-half, and when he left Gunn came in and canif d on the scoring. Shrewsbury was dismissed just at the call of time, when the total was 438 for two wickets. On Friday morning the bowling was knocked about by the first two or three batsmen, but the tail made no attempt to keep up their wickets, their idea being that it might be pos»-ib’e to win the match if they were not in too long. But the Notts bowling was not much stronger than that of their opponents, and it was never Btrong enough to look like bringing about the desired result. Gloucester­ shire pimply played for a draw, and in this they w<re eminently successful, thanks chiefly to C. L. Towns­ end, W . Troup, J. Cranston (who appeared in the team after an absence of eight years), and Hale. N o tts . Shrewsbury, c and b Townsend....................146 A. O. Jones, b Brown..250 Gunn (W .), b Towns­ end ..............................38 J. A . Dixon, c Brown, b Townsend ... 63 Attewell,b Wrathall... 57 Guttudge, c Cranston, b Paish ............ 9 Gunn (J.), c and b Townsend................... 8 ftremonger, c Thomas, b Paish ................... Oates, not out ........... Dench, cTownsend, b Paish........................... Wass, c Wrathall, b Townsend ........... B 6, lb 3, w 7 Total . G lou cestersh ire . First innings. Board, c Guttridge, b Wase 4 W ratball.b Jones...................16 Paish, b Wats ...................16 W . Troup, lbw, b Jones .. 50 C.L.Townsend,lbw,bDixon,141 W . S. A. Brown, b Jones ... 30 J. Crarston, c Guttridge, b D ix o n ...................................58 Hale, b Iremonger ........... 0 J . Healing, c sub, b Dixon 9 E. L.Thomas, c and b Dixon 15 J, W ilkinson,not................. 6 B 3, lb 5, w 6nb 1 ... 15 Second innings, c sub, b Dench ... 10 b Dench ........... o not out...................64 c sub, b Waes ... 31 b Dench ........... 8 c Oates, b Dench. 0 n otou t...................72 Total B 5 ,lb l,w l,n b l 8 . 866 Total (5wkls)193 N o t t i . O.M. R. W . O. M. R. W Townsend..70-2 12197 5 IBrown ...47 22 81 1 Wilkinson .13 0 69 0 Wrathall..18 3 83 1 Paish......... 49 11145 3 |Hale . . 3 0 16 0 Townsend bowled three wides and Brown four wides. W ass... Jones......... J. Gunn .., Attewell ... Iremonger Guttridge.., Dench Dixon G lou cestersh ire . First innings. Second innings. ,..33 13 75 ..26 0 18 10 20 1 3 7 0 .14 6 27 0 .16 3 44 0 .16 6 31 1 ............ 17 .23 7 45 0 ............ 2 . 5 3 8 0 ........... 14 ..162 6 35 4 ............ 20 Wass bowled one no-ball. Attewell two wides, Jones, Gunn, Guttridge and Dixon one wide each, and Iremonge one wide and one no-ball. 13 10 10 0 6 39 0 0 6 0 5 37 4 3 66 0 ESSEX v. HAMPSHIRE. P!ayed at Leyton on June 8, 9 and 10. Essex won by 72 runs. On the form shown by Hampshire this season they did not seem to possess much chance of beating Essex, although the team was much stronger than usual, but when they managed to get Essex out for 167 their chances looked very bright. But, with the ex­ ception of Barton, Mr. Hepeltine, and Mr. English, their batsmen could do nothing with Mead, and so everything depended on the second innings. In this Essex did not fail to do themselves justice, although pretty nearly all the scoring was done by Mr. Perrin, Mr. Fane, and Mr. Turner, who all played very finely, but although the Hampshire men all did fairly well when they went in to knock off 270, there was no one wh« was found able to make the big score which was required. Mead again bowled well. E ss e x . First innings. Second innings. F. L . Fane, c Wynyard, b Heseltine ...........................18 cSprot,b Quinton 38 H. G. Owen, c Heseltine, b Baldwin ........................... 3 P. Perrin, lbw, b Baldwin 4 ( ’. McGahey, b Steele...........17 A. J. Turner, b Baldwin Carpenter, c Robton, b H- seltine ...........................26 Rutseil, b Heseltine ........... 4 reeves, c Wynyard, b Bald­ win ................................... 4 Mead, c Quinton, b Baldwin 13 b Heseltine... not out st Robson, Baldwin ... .. 35 b Baldwin ... ... 1 ...104 b ... 4 ... 75 c Robson, b Sprot 8 c Barton, b Bald­ win ................... 3 b Sprot ........... 0 c W ynyard, b B aldw in...........18 Young, c Steele, b Baldwin 29 o Sprot, b W yn­ yard ................... 9 F. G. Bull, not out ........... 0 c Sprot, b W yn­ yard ................... 0 B 12, lb 2 ......................... 14 B 10, lb 2, w 1... 13 Tutal . ..167 T otal...........268 H am p sh ire, Fiist innings. B-irfon, c Fane, b Bull .. 42 C. Rol 8» n. b Mead ...........16 Capt. Wynyard. lbw, b Mead 4 E. M. Sprot. b Mend ... ... 9 E. A . English, c Russell, b Mead .................................. 20 J. M. Quinton, b Mead ... 2 W ebb, c Russell, b Mead ... 0 C. Heseltine, c Reeves, b Carpenter .......................... 88 D. A. Steele, b M ea d ...........16 Baldwin, b Bull ...................10 Tate, not ou t........................... o B 5, lb 3, n b 1 ........... 9 Second innings. b B u ll...................17 c Perrin,b Bull... 32 b B u ll...................18 b Mead ...........10 c and b Bull ... 37 b Young ...........17 c Carpenter, b Mead ...........15 b Mead ........... 0 st Russell, b Mead 30 not out...................13 lbw, b Bull........... 0 B 5, lb 3 ... 8 Total...........................166 E sse x . First innings. O. M. R. W . Heseltine ... 26 5 78 3 .. T ota l. ...197 Second innings. O. M. R. W . Baldwin Sprot Steele Tate 27 12 35 6 1 9 0 4 2 16 0 17 1 7 0 20 43 11 5 10 4 42 9 115 5 14 0 21 0 22 Quinton ... 41 14 1 Wynyard ... 11.4 2 27 2 Quinton bowled a wide. Mead ... Young ... Bull ... Reeves ... Carpenter H a m p sh ire. First innings. O. M. R. W . 59 11 16 2 0.3 0 63 7 2 40 0 1 51 2 13 0 0 1 Second innings. O. M.R. W . ... 35.2 10 88 4 ... 13 3 35 1 ... 28 10 66 5 Mead bowled a no-tall.