Cricket 1899

A pril 13, 1899. CRICKET ; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 57 SLAZENGER & SONS, Lau rence Pountney H ill, CANNONSTREET,LONDON,E.C The “ DEMON ” CRICKET BAT . D r . W . G . G race writes :— “ Your Demon Cricket Bats are very good, and I thoroughly approve of them in every way. I intend using them.” Special Quality - Ordinary 21/- 15/- The “ SLA ZENG ER ” MATCH BALL . Hand-made throughout. Composed of best material only, and warranted to keep its shape longer than any other Price, 5/6 each. To be obtained from all Dealers. made 199 for North Adelaide against West Torrens, on February llth , or to sympathise with him. A w r it e r in the Indian Sporting Times is enthusiastic about some of the native cricketers w ho are to com e to E d gland in 1900. He says : — The critics may carp at the prospects of a team composed as above against first-class English teams, but I feel confident that Mistri, Jayaram, Chonkar, and Ali Hasan, in particular, will rise to the occasion and take high places in the first-class batting averages for 1900. Mistri on his Indian form is Ranjitsinhji’s superior, or there is no merit in the many fine three-figure innings he has played for the Patiala XT. this cold weather. He is a far more finished batsman than Ranjitsinhji was before he went to England. It only took the latter player two years to rise to the very front rank of batsmen, and what he did in two years I think Mistri should accomplish in his first season. As a bowler Mistri should puzzle home batsmen to some Considerable extent, and with either Ali Hasan, Pavri, or Rajagopaulcharri at the other end, English batsmen will find that the bowling is not the tosh that some writers in the Madras papers would make it out to be. It will have the merit of being an unknown quantity to home batsmen, and however far it may fall below the standard of first-class bowling as it is known at home, batsmen even of the class of “ W .G .,” Shrewsbury, Gunn, Abel, Stoddart, and others for that very reason will not find the runs coming as fast as some of the critics here would have us believe. W rite fo r Illu s tra te d Sports List. CRICKET PAVILION, a t c o st price, been exhibited once at Royal Show, 22 feet long, 11 feet wide, 3 feet verandah, two large size windows, half­ glazed door covered with 24 guage iron, lin* d with matching, interlined with g< od inodourous felt, good strong floor, with rain water pipes an 1 gutters, ornamented barge boards at ends, inside stained and varnished, outside woodwork painted four coats, all built in sections, £55 10s.; usual selling price £70. Makers to H.M. the Queen and H .R.H the Prince of Wales.— P o t te r , H aw th o rn & Co., London Works, Reading. Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF TBE OAM I 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LOHDOH, E.C. THURSDAY , A P R IL 13 th , 18f9. A b a t s m a n named D. Davey, playing for the Wanderers against I Zingari at Durban, carried bis bat for 33, and bad tbe unusual experience of seeing four men run out while tie was at the wickets. V ic t o r T r u m p e r , who is now making tbe voyage to England with the Australian team has been in fine form for the Paddington C.C. at Sydney. In his last three innings he scored 113, 103, and 260, not out. Towards the end of his innings of 260 he was in with Noble, and the two men put on 145 runs in the hour, Trumper’s share being 90. In his first thrte innings of the season he made 86 runs; in the next three, 476 runs (once not out. the whereabouts of the photographer in time to allow of this. After numerous inquiries we have been able to discover him, and hope to be in a position to offer this interesting supplement with our next issue.” T h e old, old story of both bails being off and one of tbe fielding side pulling up a stump with one hand and holding the ball with the other, has cropped up in South Africa. The umpire ruled that the batsman was run out. A wire was sent to Lord Hawke asking if the decision was right, and his reply was: “ N o ; must hold ball in hand which breaks wicket.” Rule 20 says: “ The wicket shall be held to be down when . . . if both bails be off, when a stump is struck out of the ground.” Which, as we have pointed out before, is simplicity itself, if you only know what it means. D u r in g the com ing season the House of Commons w ill play the follow ing matches: May 6, v. Penarth; May 13, v. Westminster School ; June 3, v. Flitter M ice; June 10, v. 1st Life Guards, at W indsor; June 24, v. Mr. H. McCalmont’s Eleven ; July 1, v. Abbey School, Becken­ ham ; July 8, v. H igh W ycom be; and July 22, v. M r.H . Cosmo-Bonsor’s Eleven, at K in g’s W ood Warren. T he record of the Calcutta Club for the past season is : Matches played, 20; won, 13 (including the match against Patiala); and drawn, 7. The best aver­ age was made b y H . S. Bush, with 53 83 in six completed innings. He is closely followed by P. M. Robinson (45'50), S. E. A. Whiteway (43 66), and W . E. Moran (43'22). The two chief bowlers of the chib are I*’. H . Stewart—average 8 89, with 37 wickets, and W. E. Moran— average 10'73, with 63 wickets. E x c it in g in the extreme must have been a match which is thus described by Mr. W . A. Tindall in the Pretoria Press. He was playing for Paarl Juniors against Stellenbosch Juniors: “ The latter eleven went in first, and were all out for 21. On the Paarl boys going to the wicket they exited quite as quickly, and the game was a tie on the first innings. The second innings of the Stellenbosch lads was even more disastrous than the first, as they only made 10. When the last Paarl batsman came in—he was certain to go with the first, straight ball—the match was a tie. The first ball he received happened to pitch about six inches out­ side tbe off stump and break away slightly, and the Paarl umpire promptly calling wide, the match was won by a wicket.” T h e r e is not much doubt that most English cricketers who have ever heard of the Pennant matches played at Mel­ bourne, feel some difficulty in under­ standing the system on which they are worked. A recent match between Mel­ bourne and Cailton is not calculated to enlighten them very greatly. On January 14th the position of the game was that, $a\)titon Gossip. The abstract and brief chronicle of the tine.— L a s t week K . S. Ranjitsinhji arrived at Cambridge, from India, and was promptly interviewed. H e had nothing new to say except that the team he in­ tended to take to Australia would be called “ Ranjitsinhji’s England Team,” and that he should ask the follow ing amateurs to go with him to India at tbe close of the cricket season :—A. E. Stod­ dart, F . S. Jackson, C. J. Kortright, G. McGregor, H . G. Leveson-Gower, N . F. Druce, A. C. MacLaren, G. Brann, G. L . Jessop, C. B. Fry, J. R . Mason, and A. Priestley. O n e hardly knows whether to con­ gratulate a batsman named Claxton, who S o m e members of the Marjlebone C.C. who are at present residing in the Punj ab, recently arranged a m*tch under the title of M .C.C. and Ground v. Rest of Punjab — the “ G round” being represented by J. T. Hearne, who scored 121. Mr. B. N. Bosworth-Smitb made 144 for the M .C.C., whose totals were 328 and 226 for eight wickets. The Pui.jab put up 229 and 166, so that they were beaten. Brockwell was playing for the Punjab, but was bowled by Hearne for 11 and 14. T h e difficulties thrown in the way of some of our foreign contemporaries are often very considerable. Who can help sympathising with the editor of Biver Plate Sport and Pastime when he writes : “ We had fully intended presenting to our readers this week a photograph of the North Cricket Team, but were quite unable to trace