Cricket 1899

J u l y 6, 1899. C R IC K E T : A W E E K L Y R E C O R D O F T H E G A M E 253 M a j o r P o o r e ’ s record in recent matches is as follows :— 1st inns. 2nd inns. v. Somerset, June 12................... 104 ... 119* v. Lancashire, June 15 ........... I ll ... 40 v. Essex, June 26 ................... 11 ... — v. Surrey, June 29 ................... 175 ... 39* * Signifies not ont. F r o m the Transvaal, “ C.K.R..” writes: “ Kindly allow me to correct a statement which appeared in Cricket of May 4th, where it stated that Mr. W . H . Milton, Acting-Administrator of Rhodesia, cap­ tained the South African cricket team which made its appearance in England a few years back. Mr. Milton did not captain the team, nor did he go home with it, but Mr. H . H . Castens captained the team. The latter is an Oxonian, and was educated, or rather I should say he finished, at Balliol College, Oxford.” Results of matches between Notting­ hamshire and Australia :— 1878 1880 1883 j 1884 | 1886 j 18881 1893 1896 1899 Notts won by an innings and 14 runs. Notts won by one wicket. Drawn. Australia won by 184 runs. Australia won by three wickets. Drawn. Drawn. Drawn. Notts won by ten wickets. Notts won by an innings and 199 runs. Notts won by an innings and 25 runs. Notts won by 20 runs. Australia won by an innings and 151 runs. Australia won by six wickets. Drawn. Fifteen games in all, the county win- ning six times and the Australians four times. The remaining games were drawn. A l e c H e a r n e has made the following scores this year for Ken t: 23, 24, 0, 48, 21, 23, 55 (not out), 67,11, 53, 32, 85, 22, 15, and 162 (not out). F r o m the Madras Times :— In giving an account of K. M. Mistri, the Parsee crack, Cricket gives “ with all diffidence” Mistri’s and Pavri’s 163 for the first wicket as the record for India. The “ with all diffidence” is bien c/ioisi when writing of records in such a forsaken land as this, where no records are kept outside Government offices, for E. Newland and Sreenivasa Iiau scored 165 for the first wicket of Mysore Province v. Bangalore Gymkhana last October in Bangalore. So that with all diffidence I give this as the record with the knowledge that anyone else can chime in with a record from Ooty probably. Or how about those earlier Bangalore matches ? J. T . H e a r n e ’ s feat of taking three wickets with successive balls in a match between England and Australia, in England is, I believe, unparalleled. His victims were C. Hill, M. A. Noble, and S. E. Gregory. “ A P a r s e e Cricketer ” writes from Bombay :— W ill you kindly allow me to correct a state­ ment that has appeared in your issue of the 18th ult. about Mr. K. M. Mistri, the well- known Parsee cricketer. You say that as Mr. Mistri had no chances of playing against Brockwell and Hearne (as they all played for the same side), a fair idea as to his ability of playing against really first-class bowling could not be obtained. As luck would have it, Mr. Mistri and the celebrated Middlesex professional opposed each other in a cricket match played at I.ucknow, which was styled the M.C.C. v. the World. In this match Mr. Mistri, playing for the World, scored 65 and 35, the highest aggregate on his side for both the innings. I hope, Sir, that in j ustice to a rising young cricketer you will insert this in your next issue. A c c o r d in g to the Athletic Neivs, Briggs has taken 97 wickets in matches between England and Australia. But for his unfortunate illness, which prevented him from bowling in the second innings of Australia at Leeds, he would, without much doubt, have brought his total to a hundred. A c o r r e s p o n d e n t takes the Madras Times severely to task. It seems that our' contemporary spoke highly of the skill shown by a batsman in playing an innings of 58, but, says the correspondent, “ he gave a chance in the slips from the first ball he received, only no slip was there to catch it .” This is charming. T h e early part of the first innings of the Australians at Leeds on Thursday was so remarkable that it deserves to be placed among the list of cricket curiosities. When the score was 38, Kelly, Noble and Gregory were all out without scoring; there had been one bye, and Worrall had made all the rest of the runs, so that the record of the innings up to this point was as follows :— Worrall, not out ......................... . ...3 7 Kelly, e Fry, b Briggs ... ................... 0 Noble, run o u t ........................................... 0 Gregory, c Lilley, b Hearne................. 0 H ill, not out ........................................... 0 Bye .......................................... 1 Total (3 w kts.)...........38 R e f e r r in g to the result of the match at Southampton, between Surrey and Hampshire, a contemporary says:— “ Although due allowance may be made for the fact that Brockwell, Hayward, and Richardson were not playing, no effort should be made to explain away Surrey’s defeat.” Quite so. The mere mention of the three names is sufficient for all practical purposes. I t ’ s not of much importance That Richardson should play ; And as for Tommy Hayward— He’s just as well away ; While Brockwell is a person Who’s not worth counting in. So it’s wrong to make excuses If you happen not to win. O ur special lady correspondent was greatlyinterested in the University match. She writes:— “ Cricket is a perfectly delightful game. But there is no doubt that light blue is much more attrac­ tive than dark blue, and I cannot think who can have persuaded the Oxford men that dark blue suited them. At the same time it is undoubtedly a great mis­ take for all the Cambridge men to wear light blue, because it does not suit the complexion of some of them at all. I do not speak from mere heresay, for I had a splendid opportunity of studying one of the Cambridge men— a very nice look­ ing young gentleman. He was running as hard as he possibly could after the ball, but when it reached the place where we were sitting he stopped quite suddenly with a haughty, aristocratic look, and waited until someone tossed the ball to him. No doubt it was all done to show off, but all the same I looked daggers at a disagreeable old gentleman who mur­ mured something about ‘ another bounder at least, it sounded like ‘ bounder.’ There was a young lady close to me with the most charming hat you ever . . . . ” [The rest of the letter is unintelligible to us.—Ed .] V a r io u s explanations have been given as to what were the “ private reasons” why Mr. Jackson declined to play for England against the Australians, and afterwards altered his decision, but Mr. Jackson has so many times in the course of his career shown that he is a thorough sportsman, that most cricketers will be satisfied to rest content with his assurance that his reasons were private. O v e r h e a r d in Regent’s Park on Sun­ day.—Young Lady: “ So Mawster, when ’e saw the evenin’ paper yesterday, ’e says, ‘ Ang these Orsteralians,’ and Missis (you know ’er way), she asks ’im, ‘ Why, wot ’ave they done, dear ? ’ and ’e says, ‘ Why, it rained all day, and not a blessed ball could be bowled.’ So Missis says, ‘ But 'ow could the Orstera­ lians ’elp that ? ’ and Mawster, ’e got up and says, ‘ That’s just like a woman,’ and out ’e goes.” T h e feat of taking all the wickets in an innings was recently accomplished at King’s Cliffe, near Stamford, by Mr. H . Bailey, who took the ten wickets of Duddington for 18 runs. Mr. C. Dolby, on the other side, only just missed the honour of taking the ten King’s Cliffe wickets; one man was run out and so spoiled,, the record. The score of the Duddington innings is appended. King’s Cliffe made 84. D d ddin gton . Bellinger, b Bailey ... Bull, b Bailey ........... Dolby, c Pettifor, b Bailey ................... Birch, b Bailey ........... Theoday, b Bailey Trussler, c C. Blake, b Bailey ................... Sharpe, b Bailey........... Sealy, c F. Blake, b Bailey .................. Manton, b Bailey ... Bennington, not out Little, b Bailey........... E x tras................... Total ........... I n a match at Richmond (Surrej) between Holy Trinity School and the Na'ional School each side made 38 in the first innings. In their second innings Holy Trinity again made 38. The sequence was spoiled by the National School, who in the twenty minutes left for play scored 43 for four wickets. In the Brighton Argus Mr. Gaston mentions an incident in connection with the Brighton College Eleven. In the days of the late Mr. C. W . Carpenter the team was known as an eleven of the tallest cricketers in England, and the