Cricket 1899

362 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A u g . 24, 1899. SUSSEX y. ESSEX. Played at Brighton on August 17, 18, and 19. Drawn. 1 Up to Friday night the Essex team had the best of reasons for congratulating itself, the only drawback to their satisfaction being that Ranjitsinhji and Brann were still possibilities to be reckoned with, although even if they came off it did not seem likely that Sussex could avoid a defeat. Ranjitsinhji was, moreover, suffering from a badly injured thumb. The position of affairs at this time was that Sussex had lost both Fry and Latham in their second innings, and were still 90 runs behind. It was a most unpromising outlook for them. This desirable posi­ tion (from an Essex point of view) had been brought about chiefly by some remarkably good bowling by Young, who, against men who were unaccustomed to him, seemed to recover the form which had twice gained him a place in the England eleven, and splendid batting by Fane, McGahey, and Perrin. Fane has at last taken the place in tbe Essex eleven which ought to have been his two or three years ago if he had not so often failed in the most unaccount­ able manner. Except for a fine partnership between Banjitsinhji and Vine, Sussex did very badly iu their first innings. When the game was resumed on Saturday morning Banjitsinhji and Vine, the two not outs, with 14 rims oetween them, began a long partnership, which produced 107 runs. At lunch time they were still together, Banjitsinbji being not out 140—he hid made his hundred while Vine was scoring about 30. Vine soon left after lunch. He had very wisely been content to keep up his vicket, seeiDg tbat the Prince was quite capaole of doiDg the scoring. But at 237 Banjitsinhji was out for an altogether admirable innings, which had been put together in less than three hours—it was one of those innings which bring a side from a desperate situation into one of complete comfort. Sussex were then only 112 runs on, and if a collapse had occurred Essex might still have won. But Brann and Kiliick played so well that Sussex was able to declare, leaving; Essex to make 183. Essex had no possibility of making the runs in the time at their disposal. E sse x . First innings. Second innings. F. L. Fane, c Cox, b Ranjit- s in h ji...........................-116 b Tate.................. 2 Carpenter, c Banjitsinhji, b B la n d ...............................26 notout..................42 P. Perrin, c and b Killick... 47 c Tate, b Fry ... 33 U. McGahey, b Killick ...59 not out..................21 Ayres, c Butt, b KiUick ...41 E.M.Toulmin.bBanjitsinbji 1 H. G. Owen, b Killick ... 8 Young, c Cox, b Brann ...19 Russell, lbw, b Brann............. 9 F. G. Bull, not out .3 Mead, b Bland .................13 B 4, lb 2, w 4 ..........10 Total(2wkt8) 98 Second innings. cRussell,bYoung 6 c Toulmin, b Bull 38 c Ayres, b Mead 15 not out ..........34 c Fane, b Mead...161 b Mead ..........49 Total .............352 S ussbx . First innings. C. B. Fry, b Mead ........ G. Brann, b Youug ...... 28 P. H. Latham, st Bussell, b Mead ............................26 Killick, c Mead, b Young... 14 B. F. Beard, b Young ... 4 K.S. Banjitsinhji, c Bussell, b Toulm in.....................48 Vine, c and b Young.......63 Cox, lbw, b Toulm in........ 3 Tate, c Toulmin, b Young... 12 Butt, b Young ............... 2 Bland, not out ............... 6 B 11 , lb 4 .................15 L b l,w 2 ,n b l 4 Total .227 Total (5wkts)*307 * Innings declared closed. E ssex . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M.B. W. Brann ........... 18 9 40 2 ........... 4 1 12 0 Tate.................. 12 4 36 0 ........... 10 3 24 1 C o x ................. 20 7 47 0 ........... 2 0 6 0 Killick ..........3D 2 107 4 ........... 5 2 11 0 Bland .......... 23*1 6 56 2 ........... 11 4 17 0 Banjitsinhji ... 32 7 56 2 ........... 2 1 6 0 Fry .......... 5 1 13 1 Beard ... 2 0 9 0 Bland bowled four wides. S ussex . First innings. Second innings. O. M.R. W . O. M. B. W. Mead .......... 36 12 77 2 ........... 36 10 74 3 Young ..........344 11 58 6 ........... 27 5 96 1 B ull................. 20 6 46 0 ........... 23*2 9 57 1 Toulmin........... 11 5 16 2 ............ 13 5 22 0 Ayres .......... 3 0 11 0 ........... 4 0 13 0 McGahey ... 2 1 4 0 ........... 5 2 13 0 Carpenter ... 1 1 0 0 ........... 2 0 13 0 Perrin ... 3 1 15 0 Bull bowled two wides and Mead one no-ball. MIDDLESEX v. LANCASHIRE. Played at Lord’s on August 17, 18, and 19. Middlesex won by ten wickets. Undoubtedly the most remarkable feature in this match was the bowling of Mr. F. G. J. Ford, who, having apparently lost his skill with the ball some years ago, suddenly imitated the performances of Ward, Mr. Burnup, Quaife, and other batsmen who have surprised cricketers this year by taking a lot of wickets. When the Middlesex first innings ended for 406 nobody supposed but that Lancashire would get somewhere near to this total, for, despite the splendid form in which Trott has been of late, Lancashire possessed batsmen who are able to play any bowling. Middlesex began badly enough, but Mr. Warner held his own and kept up his end for two hours, showing excellent cricket the whole time. He was run out through a piece of bad judgment by his partner at a time when his downfall might have made all the difference in the world. As it turned out, he had been in long enough to take the edge off the bowling, which was soon afterwards completely worn out. Mr. Ford played a fine innings, and Mr. Wells and Mr. MacGregor made the best stand of the match, putting on 112 rims in a little over an hour by very good cricket. The invincible Trott once more carried everything before him, and Mr. Spooner, the Marlborough College captain, was the oniy man who could play him. In the follow-on Spooner again showed that he has great possibilities before him if he can find time to play regularly in first-class cricket. He showed clearly enough in the second eleven Lancashire match against the Surrey second that he can make runs against good bowling, and, although he has naturally still much to learn, he played Trott in the second innings in a masterly way, which many of his companions must have envied. As in his match at Lord’s against Bugby, he made a lot of fine drives which reached the boundary before the field could start for them, and he very nearly succeeded in equalling the performance of another Lancastrian, A. C. MacLaren, in making a hundred in his first county match. With Ward as a partner he put on 128 for the first wicket, doing nearly all the scoring himself, as was to be expected. So easily had the bowling been played by the two first-wicket men that a very long score seemed a certainty. But to the surprise of everybody the team collapsed, not so much before Trott as before Ford, who seemed to puzzle the batsmen very considerably. It remains to be seen whether his performance was merely a flash in the pan or whether he has really got his bowling back again by some mysterious accident. The match was not concluded on Friday evening, but its result could not be in doubt. M id d le se x . First innings. P. F. Warner, run out 78 J. Douglas, b Mold ... 2 L. J. Moon, c Smith, b M o ld ........................23 R. N. Douglas, b Mold 6 Rawlin, b W ard.......... 8 F. G. J. Ford, c Mac­ Laren, b Mold......... Trott (A. E.), c Ward, b Webb 71 27 Second innings. C. M. Wells, c and b Mold........................59 G. MacGregor, c Spooner, b Mold .. 61 Roche, c Tyldesley, b Ward .................23 Hearne (J.T.) not out 12 B 31, lb 4, w 1 ... £6 Total ..406 Second innings:—P. F. Warner, not out, 19; J. Douglas, not out, 23.—Total (no wkt.) 42. L an cash ire . First innings. R. H. Spooner, b Trott ... 44 A. Ward, lbw, b Trott ... 14 Tyldesley, b Trott ........ 1 A.C.MacLaren, lbw, b Trott 15 A. Eccles, b Heame ........ 9 C.R.Hartley, cMoon,b Trott 25 Cuttell, b Trott ............. 16 W . B. Stoddart, c Boche, b Trott ........................... 22 Smith, b Boche ............... 6 Webb, b Trott ............... 6 Second innings, c Ford, b Trott... 83 notout.................83 b Trott................. 0 b Ford.................11 c MacGregor, b Ford................. 9 c Moon, b Ford... 14 c MacGregor, b Ford.................11 Mold, not out.. B 20,lb 6 c Heame, b Ford b Trott .......... st K. N. Douglas, b Ford .......... b Trott B 31, lb 8, w 1 40 Total .................184 Total ...262 M id d le se x . O. M . R. W . O. M. R. W. Mold ... ......... 42 6 160 6 .......... 5 1 16 0 Stoddart .......... 9 1 37 0 .......... 1*1 0 6 0 Ward... Cuttell Webb... ..........184 3 62 2 .......... ........ 16 4 47 0 .......... ......... 18 1 64 1 .......... 5 2 20 0 Mold bowled a wide. L an cash ire . O. M . R. W . O. M . R. W. Heame ..........31 15 55 1 .......... 12 3 22 0 Trott... ..........37-4 11 91 8 .......... 40-4 15 77 4 Wells... ..........1 1 0 0 ............11 3 35 0 Boche... ..........6 3 12 1 ............15 7 24 0 Rawlin 5 2 8 0 Ford... 29 12 56 6 Ford delivered one wide. W A R W IC K S H IR E v. K E N T . Played at Edgbaston on A ug. 17, 18 and 19. W arwickshire w on b y seven wickets. This match was originally fixed to take place at Edgbaeton at the end of May, but owing to the state of the wicket, which had been mined by rain, it was postponed at the request of the Warwickshire com­ mittee. A heavy thunderstorm fell two days before the present match, and the result was tbat Kent, who won the toss, lost their chances of success by failing in the first innings, although when stumps were drawn on Friday night they were only el ven runs behind with eight wickets in hand in the second inninga. They played up well on Saturday, but left a fairly easy task to Warwickshire, who thus won their first match on their own ground for a couple of years. K ent . First innings. Second innings. C. J. Burnup, c Lilley, b Dickens ........................16 stLilley,bDickens 0 Hearne (A.), c Devey, b Dickons ........................13 c and b Field ... 10 S.H.Day,cW.Quaife,b Field 21 b Forrester..........68 W. H. Patterson, c Lilley, b c Bainbridge, b Forrester ........................23 Field...................47 J. R. Mason, b F ield..........55 cField,bForrester 13 Rev. W.RaBhleigh,b Santall 7 b Dickens ..........26 H. C. Stewart, run out ... 0 c Santall b For­ rester ..........30 G. J. V. Weigall, c Field, b Forrester ........................ 0 b Field.................37 Huish, b Forrester .......... 0 c Fishwick,bField 6 Humphreys, not out ..........13 b Field...................22 W . M. Bradley, b Forrester 4 not out................. 2 Byes............................... 6 B 4, lb 7, w 1, nb 1 13 Total........................158 Total ...274 W arwickshire . First innings. Second innings. Devey, c and b Bradley ... 0 c Bashleigh, b Mason ..........SO Quaife (W.), c Rashleigh, bc Patterson, b Heame..............................18 Mason ............ 0 Lilley, c Hearne, b Bradley 30 Quaife (W. G.), c Huish, b Burnup .............................38 not out...............32 T. S. Fishwick, c Stewart, b M ason....................................34b Hearne ...........17 H. W. Bainbndge, c Huish, b Mason .............................30 not ou t...............45 Diver, c Burnup, b Heame 59 Santall, not out ......................56 Forrester, run out ........ 18 Field, c Burnup, b Bradley 11 Dickens, b Bradley ......... 1 Wides .......................... 3 B 8, nb 3..............11 Total........................298 Total (3wkts)135 K ent . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. B. W. Dickens........ 15 8 25 2 .......... 25 18 21 2 Field .......... 20 5 52 9 ........... 44’1 12 101 5 Quaife (W.G.) 10 4 21 0 .......... 7 3 14 0 Santall ........ 11 4 23 1 .......... 26 17 17 0 Forrester ... 13 6 31 4 ........... 41 12 97 3 Lilley ... 3 0 11 0 Forrester bowled a no-ball and Dickens bowled a wide. W arwickshire . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. B. W. Bradley.....35’4 4 123 4 .......... 10 3 31 0 Burnup...... 10 1 36 I .......... 3 0 10 0 Mason ........ 22 7 54 2 ........... 28 12 63 2 Hearne ........ 37 12 59 2 .......... 16 4 29 1 Humphreys ... 5 1 23 0 ............ Weigall... 0’1 0 1 0 Bumup bowled two wides and Humphreys one, and Mason three no-balls. SOMERSET y. SURREY. t y l e r ’ s b e n e f it . Played at Taunton on August 17, 18 and 19. Drawn. For several years Surrey men have looked upon the Western tour with misgivings, for Somerset and Gloucestershire have both often proved dangerous opponents on their own ground. After a disastrous season Somerset had suddenly blossomed out into great splendour in the Sussex match, and it was thought that they had p.rhaps got back to form agaio. Once more, however, Surrey, after having the best of the situation, had to put up with a dis­ appointing draw. They did well enough iu their first innings to make themselves at least secure from defeat, thanks to splendid play by Hayward, a bril­ liant innings by Lockwood, sound and attractive cricket by Abel, and some hitting by Lees, but their bowling was sadly at fault, and the eleven wouui doubtless have been very glad of the services of