Cricket 1899

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Dr. SPEECHLY, Parkgate, Cheshire. Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, JUNE 15 th , 1899. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. T h e record of the Australians is now as follows:—Matches played, 11; won, 5 ; lost, 1 ; drawn, 5. Darling has won the toss five times and lost it six times. I n days of old a total of over 300 in the first innings was rightly held to be large enough to practically secure a side from defeat, but we have changed all that, and nowadays you never know your luck until the last ball of the match is bowled. The Sussex team put up 387 against Middle­ sex, but was beaten by five wickets, while the Cambridge team established a record by scoring 436 against the Australians, and losing the match by ten wickets. A lt h o u g h Albert Trott has always been known rather as a brilliant than a consistent cricketer, it is singular that he should have so completely failed when he has been opposed to his own countrymen. At the time of the England X I. match at Eastbourne he was in remarkable form, and great things were expected of him. He made 17 and 9, and took three wickets for 168 runs. When he met them again he had been electrifying the world by some wonderful performances on all sorts of wickets, but in the M.C.C. match he again failed against the Australians, scoring only 0 and 2, and taking three wickets for 106 runs. Yet directly the