Cricket 1899

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Australia match it certainly did not represent true form, for it would be idle to contend that Fry, Ranjitsinhji, Tyldesley, and Townsend are worth only 56 runs between them with two innings apiece. Again, our bowling may not have been as good as that of the Australians, but we did not lose the match because our men bowled badly—it is not remarkable for any first- class eleven to make over 400 against any bowling whatever— the mischief of it was that we did not make enough runs. As for the cry of “ Ichabod,” which is being raised, we may as well wait until we see what happens in the other big matches before we begin to weep. When the Australians were all out for 53 in the first innings at Lord’s, in 1896, in