Cricket 1899

J une 29, 1899. CRlOKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 233 TH E AUSTRALIANS. THE LEICESTERSHIRE MATCH. FOURTEENTH OF THE TOUR. Played at Leicester on June 22, 23 and 24. Autralians won by 248 runs. Unhappy is the weak county which the present Australian team catches upon a bowler’s wicket! It was almost a foreg >ne conclusion, when heavy rain caused the beginning of the match with Leicestershire to be postponed until the second day, that Leicester­ shire would have a bad time of it in batting at some time or other in the course of the match if it was played out, and the bad time came on Saturday afternoon. The all-round strength of the Australians was shewn very plainly in this match. It is true that they reaped some benefit from winning the toss, but even if their score of 194 against 95 by Leicestershire may be explained by this, the ease with which they made runs in their second innings and then bowled out the home team for next to nothing still remains to be accounted for. On the not very easy wicket the Australians did well enough against the weakened bowling o f Leicestershire the first innings, although only Gregory made a big score. Geeson bowled finely. W hen Leicestershire went in they seemed more likely than not to do as well as the Australians, but with the loss of De Trafford’s wicket, by a piece of bad luck—he had stepped over the crease in play- in Howell and the ball, which beat the wicket-keeper as well as the batsman, rebounded off the former’s pad—the mi fortunes of the county began. The tail collapsed, and the Australians at the end of the first day had a lead of 99 on the first innings. Trumble and Howell were both in good form with the ball. On Saturday the visitors rapidly began to increase their lead, and in the two hours before lunch put on 177 for the loss of only three wickets, thus enabling Darling to declare his innings with a reasonable prospect of bringing the match to a conclusion. To Worrall the Australians were chiefly indebted for their satisfactory position. W hile he was in parner- ship with Noble 94 runs were put on in about an hour, and after Gregory had been dismissed Darling wisely sent in Jones, in order that runs might be made as quickly as possible. W orrall made some wonderfully good hits in his 100, twice sending the ball out of the ground. His runs were made in a couple of hours. The history of the Leicestershire second innings may be briefly told. The number of runs required to win was 227, and Jones and Noble were the bowlers. Two wickets fell before a run had been scored. W ith the total at two the third wicket fell. Two more men were out for an additional run, and yet two more for another run, so that seven wickets were down for four runs, and spectators and players began to think of records. But a partnership of eleven runs for the eighth wicket made records out of the question, and eventually even the eighteen reached by the Australians in 1896, at Lord’s, was left far behind. But it was a great triumph for Noble and Jones, and the Australian team as a whole. A u str a lia n s . First innings. J. Worrall, run out ...........17 J. Darling, st Whiteside, b Geeson................................... 7 M. A . Noble, c Whiteside, b W ood ...........................26 8. E. Gregory, not out ... €6 E. Jones, c Brown, b Grew- cock ...................................10 not out. V . Trumper, b Geeson ... 12 J.J.Kelly, c Brown,bGeeson 18 H. Trumble, b Geeson ...16 F. Laver, lbw, b Geeson ... 0 C. E. McLeod, b Grewcock 0 W . P. Howell, c Marriott, b Geeson... ...........................10 B 9, lb 1, w 2 ...........12 B l , l b 2 ,w l 4 Total ...........194 Total (3 wkts. )*177 * Innings declared closed. Second innings. not out.................100 cM airiott, b Gee­ son .................... 6 b Geeson b Gefson 26 L e ic e ste r sh ir e . First innings. Brown (L .), b M cLeod ... Knight, b foum ble ........... Pougher, b Trumble ........... H. H. Marriott, c McLeod, b T ru m ble.......................... C. E. de Trafford, runout... K ing(J.H .), candb Trumble Whitehead (H .), b Noble ... Geeson, lbw, b Howell Grewcock, b Howell ........... C. J. B. W ood, b Howell ... Whiteside, not out ........... B 4, nb 1 ................... Total ......... Second innings. 7 b Noble ........... 0 12 b Jones ........... 0 10 b Noble ........... 0 22 b Noble ........... 2 22 b Noble ........... 2 4 b Jones ........... 0 7 b Jones ........... 1 1 b Noble ........... 10 0 cGregory.b Noble 1 0 lbw, d Noble ... 0 5 not out................... 4 5 B 7, nb 1 ... 8 96 Total ... 28 A u stralian s . W a r w ic k sh ir e . First innings. Second innings. First innings. Second innings. O * $ o M. R. W . O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . jfrewcock .. .2 3 7 57 2 ........... 9 1 28 0 Rhodes ... .. 21 6 46 0 ... . .1 8 6 31 4 King .......... 8 1 24 0 ........... 8 4 17 0 Haigh ... ..2 9 13 33 8 ... . . 6-4 3 12 4 W ood ......... . 8 3 21 1 ........... Wainwright . 4 1 10 0 ... . . 8 3 19 1 G eeson......... . 26-2 7 65 6 ........... 26 3 81 3 Hirst ... .. 8-4 3 18 2 ... . .1 9 7 37 1 Pougher . 7 3 15 0 ........... Whitehead . . 3 2 1 0 . . . . Brown 9 0 47 0 Hirst bowled a no-ball. Grewcock bowled two and Geeson one wide. Trumble McLeod Howell ... Noble ... L e ic e s te r s h ir e . O. M. R. W . , 31 38 31 4 ......... . 14 . 16 O. M. R. W . 10 20 3 0 - 1 0 0 1 10-2 Jones 11 Trumble and Jones each bowled a no-ball. YORKSHIRE v. WARWICKSHIRE. Played at Scarborough on June 22, 23 and 24. Yorkshire won by 168 runs. The Yorkshiremen batted for about two hours and a-half on Thursday, before rain came, and put on 156 runs for the loss of nine wickets. It was always diffi­ cult to make runs, for the wicket had been affected by the rain on the pievious night. Brown once more showed that on all sorts of wickets he is one of the great men of the day, and if it had not been for his splendid cricket his team would have fared badly. On Friday the last wicket made an invaluable stand. W . G. Quaife again batted well and patiently for Warwickshire, and Bainbridge played very sound cricket, but the rest of the team did so little that Yorkshire had a lead of 63 runs. In their second innings Yorkshire forged ahead rapidly. Brown again played a splendid innings, and Tunnicliffe also played very finely, the latter putting on 55 with Mit­ chell in the three-quarters of an hour before stumps were drawn. Yorkshire were at this time 205 runs on with eight wickets in hand, so that they had the match in hand if they could get Warwickshire out. On Saturday they could not make enough runs to declare, for the batting broke down against the bowling of Whitehead, who was appearing in the Warwickshire team for the first time during the sea­ son. Tunnicliffe, however, again played well. Over and over again Warwickshire have shown themselves adepts at playing for a draw, and they entered upon their task with a reasonable prospect of accomplishing their object, but when Haigh and Rhodes came on to bowl the end came in a manner which was quite un­ expected. Glover and W . G. Quaife were the only men who distinguished themselves. Y o rk sh ire . First innings. Brown (J.T.), c Bainbridge, b Dickens ..........................62 Tunnicliffe, c W . G. Quaife, b Charlesworth...................16 Denton, c Glover, b Charles­ worth ................................... 0 F. Mitchell, c Fishwick, b 8econd innings, c W . G. Quaife, b Santall........... c W . Quaife, b Santall ........... Whitehead... Wainwright, c Dickens, b Whitehead... ................... Hirst, c Bainbridge, b Dickens ... ...................1 Haigh, c Bainbridge, b Dickens .......................... 1 Lord Hawke, lbw, b W hite­ head ................................... Whitehead (Lees) ,b Dickens Rhodes, run o u t ...................i Hunter, not o u t ...................5 B 6, lb 6, w 1 ...........1 b Santall ........... 0 c W . G. Quaife, b W hitehead... 28 b Whitehead ... 19 cSantall,bW hite - h ead...................27 cDickens,bWhite- h ead................... 2 cSantall,bW hite- head................... 2 cSantall,bWhite­ head ................... 4 n otou t........... .. 1 b Santall Total ...................184 W a r w ic k sh ir e . First innings. Quaife (W .), lbw, b Haigh 2 Quaife (W . G.), b Haigh ... 33 Diver, c Rhodes, b Haigh... 4 T. S. Fishwick, b Haigh ... 0 Lilley, b Haigh ................... 2 H.W.Bainbridge,cMitchell, b Haigh ...........................46 A.C.S. Glover, lbw, b Haigh 4 Santall, c and b Hirst ... 4 Charlesworth, b Hirst ... 12 Whitehead, b H a ig h ........... 0 Dickens, not o u t ................... 0 B 12, lb 1, nb 1 ...........14 Whitehead Santall Charlesworth Dickens Total ... “ • ...121 Y o r k s h ir e . First innings. O. M. R. W . 31 8 48 3 ... 11 2 40 0 . 11 4 31 2 . 24 8 62 4 Total 4 30 0 25 0 DERBYSHIRE v. ESSEX. Played at Leyton on June 22, 23 and 24. Derbyshire won by 98 runs. On paper Essex were marked out as likely to beat Derbyshire with the greatest ease, but the weather stepped in and had a good deal to do with the result, although the Essex men can hardly be said to have done themselves justice in batting. The Derbyshire first innings on Friday—there was no play on Thurs­ day—was only remarkable for the determined play of L. G. W right, who, when his comrades were failing one after the other, played a splendid game. Thanks to him the Derbyshire total was reasonably Urge, for the wicket had been greatly injured by the rain. Runs were very difficult to obtain when Essex went in, but thanks to some useful contributions by Owen Lucas, Carpenter and A . J. Turner the home team had a lead of 19. 8ome very good cricket by Bag­ shaw almost made up for the failure of some of the best men when Derbyshire went in a second time, but the turning point of the innings came when Walter Sugg and R. Kenward got together and defied the bowling for an hour, during which they put on 95 runs by the soundest cricket. To the efforts of Bag­ shaw, Sugg and Kenward, who each made over 50, Derbyshire owed the excellent position which they held when Essex went in on a tricky wicket to knock off 193. Hulme carried everything before him at first, and Bestwick finished up the innings quickly. A . J. Turner alone was able to make a stand against the bowling, which on the difficult wicket became quite brilliant. D e rbysh ire . First innings. L. G. W right, not out ... 59 Bagshaw, b Mead .......... 0 Chatterton, c McGahey, b Mead .................................. 6 Storer, b Mead .................. 5 Sugg, b Young .................. 9 R. Kenward, c Russell, b Mead ................................... T. A. Higson, c McGahey, b M ead......... ................. l Hulme, c Russell, b Bull ... 0 Hancock, b M ead................ 1 Berwick, c Owen, b A . J. Turner................................. 9 Bestwick, c and b Young ... 3 B 11, w 1, nb 1 ........13 B 10, lb 6, w l... 17 Total ...........212 Second innings. b Hirst................... 7 b Haigh ...........25 b Wainwright ... 5 b Rhodes ...........14 cHunter,bRhodes 7 b Rhodes ........... 0 c Wainwright, b Rhodes ... ..32 b Haigh ........... 2 b Haigh ........... 2 b Haigh ........... 1 not out................... 4 B 3, lb 6 ........... 9 ...108 Second innings. O. M. R .W . . 44 16 67 6 . 40*2 13 73 .. 11 3 14 5 Second innings. 9 b Mead ........... 2 0 b A . J. Turner... 58 6 cand bM ead ... 0 5 lbw, b Mead ... 7 9 b W . M. Turner 69 6 st Russell, b Mead 56 Total ...112 b W . M. Turner 0 b Young ........... 0 c and b Mead ... 3 b Young ........... 0 not out................... 9 B 13, lb 3, nb 1 17 Total .. 211 Whitehead and Charlesworth each bowled a wide. E sse x . First innings. C. McGahey, b Hulme ... 0 Carpenter, c Berwick, b H ulm e.................................. 22 P. Perrin, c W right, b Hig­ son...........................................11 A . J. Turner, c Storer, b H igson......... ................... 19 A. P. Lucas, c Hulme, b Higson...................................29 W . M. Turner, b Hulme ... 4 H. G. Owen, c Chatterton, b Hulme ...........................20 Russell, c Hancock, b Hulme 2 Mead, c Wright, b Hulme 1 F. G. Bull, c W right, b Bestwick ........................... 6 Young, not out ...................10 B 5, lb 2 ........................... 7 Total...........................131 D er b ysh ir e . First innings. O. M . R. W . Mead ........... 30 8 64 6 ... Young ........... 21*4 10 26 2 ... B u ll...................10 4 16 1 ... Carpenter ... 3 23 0 ... Turner, A. J. 1 1 0 1 Second innings, c Storer, b Hulme 4 b Hulme ... lbw, b Hulme not out........... run o u t ................. b Hulme .......... b Hulme ... ... lbw, b Bestwick b Bestwick b Bestwick........... b Hulme ........... Byes ........... 15 2 40 1 6 1 11 t 0 3 8 14 3 , 5 Turner, W . M. 3 Total ... 94 Second innings. O. M. R. W . 29*2 17 61 5 13 2 1 0 0 1 43 2 50 0 14 0 24 1 12 2 Young bowled one wide and two no-balls. E ssex . First innings. O. M. R. W . Hulme ........... 36 15 62 6 .. Higson ...........204 8 25 3 . Bestwick.......... 9 2 13 1 .. B erw ick........... 13 6 23 0 Bagshaw........... 3 1 11 0 Second innings. O. M. r T w . ... 24 11 29 6 ... 19 3 47 0 ... 4*4 0 10 3