Cricket 1899

78 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. A p r i l 20, 1899. LORD HAWKE ’S TEAM IN SOUTH AFRICA. ( Continued from page £3). The follow ing complele scores reached us t< o lale for cur last issue :— THE RETURN CAPE COLONY MATCH. EIGHTEENTH OF THE TOUR. Played at Cape Town on March 25, 27 and 28. Lord Hawke’s team won by an innings and 29 runs. C ap e ( olo n y . First innings. A. Reid, b Haigh................... 0 W . Shalders, b Haigh ... 42 M. Bissett, b Haigh ........... 0 H . H . Francis, b Haigh ... 0 B. Powell, c Board, b Cuttell 23 C. F. Prince, b Haigh...........20 F. Kuys, b T r o tt.................. 9 8. Horwood, b Haigh........... 0 R. Graham, not out ........... 0 J. Middleton, b Ealgh ... 1 G. Rowe, b Haigh ........... 0 B 10, lb 2, nb 3 ... 15 Second innings. b Trott................... 6 run out ........... 6 b Trott...................26 c Wilson, b Trott 22 c Board, b Haigh 1 c Tyldesley, b Tiott, ... ... 0 lbw, b Trott ... 49 b Haigh ........... 3 c and b Trott ... 3 not o u t................. 2 b Haigh ........... 8 Extras . Total .................110 Total ... 12 ...138 L ord H a w k e ’ s X I. F. W . Milligan, c and Graham ................... 9 Poard, not o u t .... ...1 0 H. R. B.-Davenport, b Graham ........... 0 Lord Hawke, c and b Graham ................... 0 B10, Ib 8 ,w 2 ,n b l 21 Total . 277 P. F. Warner, run out 7 F. Mitchell, b Rowe... 37 Tyldesley, st Prince, b R ow e.......... .......... 4 C. E. M . W ilson, b Graham ... . (9 Cuttell, c Shalders, b Graham ................. 98 Trott, c Bissett, b Graham ...........21 Haigh, c Powell, b R ow e........................... 1 I C ape C olo n y . First innings. Second inniD gs. O. M . R. W . O. M. R W. H a ig h ...................20 4 9 34 8 ............ 24 8 43 3 Trott .................. 16 6 36 1 ............ 28 4 4 73 6 Cuttell ........... 8 1 19 1 ............ B -Davenport ... 4 2 6 0 ............ Milligan... 4 1 10 0 L ori > H a w k e ’ s XT. O. M. R. W . Middleton 28 8 f 2 0 I Kuys... Rowe ... 45 19 64 3 Powell Graham ... 30*3 5 97 6 | O. M . R. W . 8 4 17 0 8 4 16 0 SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM. B y L.G., in th e Australasian. When, a year ago, our players beat the “ best eleven that ever left England,” as the home papers styled it, in such a decisive manner, we were naturally jubilant, and those in the old country as much depressed But we knew at the time—and that assurance of knowledge has been confirmed by the result—that our opponents would leave no means unused to reverge the verdict so emphatically given here. Ever since the matter has been one of constant discussion and anxious consideration in English cricket circles, and a determination has been evinced that in so far as organisation is concerned they will not be found wanting. Five test matches have been arranged in the programme, and special provision made that all the best players shall be available, which means a lot, bt cause sometimes in the past county com­ mittees have refused to allow representative matches to interfere with local fixtures. And it means a good deal more in this connection, because, with the great number of players always at hand, they can have, even more so than in the past, two elevens or more waiting on the ground for each of the matches, so as to always have an extended choice, and adapt their material to the special weather or other conditions of the day. This has been done to a limited extent in previoustours of Australian players, and will be adopted to a greater extent in the coming tour. Depend upon it, England is going to make a mighty effort to regain its supremacy or rehabilitate itself on the cricket field, and our men will have all their work to hold their own. He would be a very sanguine partisan to do more than be hopeful of the result. This brings me to what I set out to write about. England will have practically an unlimited supply of material to come and go upon. Sit down to pick what you might deem the best eleven, and there is hardly a man you could not replace once or twice, or mayhap three times. Well, of course, we cannot do that in England any more than the Englishmen can do it when they come here. But because we cannot do as much as they can is no reason why we should not do as much as we reasonably can. All the teams that have left here to carry on a cricket cam­ paign in England have been deemed—at any rate, in England, and when successful cer­ tainly so here- as representing Australia. That is to say, they have been regarded not as going on a speculative venture—merely for the sake of the money they could or might make—but as occupying a sort of quasi-public character. That has always been the opinion in England, and as each successive team has left here the feeling has been increasing that, instead of being left entirely uncontrolled, they should be stamped with an official status, so to speak. The present team has that to a certain limited extent. Possibly the next one will be more trammelled. But whatever the internal organisation maybe, or however con­ trolled, this much is certain—that the public requires that people who assume to represent Australia, and more especially under the special circumstances of this case, shall—so far as they reasonably can—do so under such conditions as will give them a fair opportunity of meeting their opponents on equal terms. Will they do this if, as is publicly stated, they are only to take thirteen men home ? Is it to be truthfully said of them that they are going to sacrifice a possible chance of success because they prefer to divide “ x ” —that is, the amount of their prospective net profit—by thirteen, instead of by fourteen or fifteen? Because that is what the public thinks at the present time. The pecuniary success of the trip is assured from the start, and if they are to imperil their position on the field under what are bound to be the particularly onerous conditions of the present tour because the present eleven certainties desire to have a lai ger dividend than they would have if they hail three or four extra men—be sure, if failure, or comparative failure be the result, the public will not readily forget their con­ duct. 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