Cricket 1900

A ug . 2, 1900 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 30g SURREY v. YORKSHIRE, w . b r o c k w e l l ’ s b e n e f it m a t c h . A REMARKABLE FINISH. Played at the Oval on July 26, 27 and 28. Drawn. Although one is accustomed to look for wet weather when an important benefit match is to be played, the morning of Thursday was so fine that everything pointed to a full three days’ cricket and large crowds. Even on Friday morning there were no signs that the weather contemplated making any immediate change in its methods, but at about lunch time clouds began to gather, and a thunderstorm followed which for deliberate persistency was one of the most remark­ able of recent years, and no further play was possible until Saturday morning. Of course the wicket was bound to be affected by the heavy downpour, but as the sun did not come out for a long time the York- shiremen, who had t >finish their innings, with eight wickets in hand, did not at first A id run-getting at all difficult. But when once the long partnership between Mr. Taylor and Tunuicliffe was broken the Surrey bowlers began to get a little chmce of dis­ tinguishing themselves, and if they had not. been tired it is probable that the Yorkshire tail would have walked backwards and forwards in a procession. As it was, however, they nearly all made a few runs, and in the end the Surrey total was topped by 2 : runs. When Surrey went in again it was nearly five o’clock, and although everybody who knew anything of cricket pitches was prepared to find that they could not make many runs, no one can have anticipated the absolute collapse which followed, a collapse which was so serious that even with the short time at their disposal the Yorkshiremen seemed to have an ex­ cellent chance of winning the match, thanks to their lead of 20 runs, which at the end of their innings seemed so insignificant. Once more Hayward and Mr. Jephson stepped in at an extremely critical moment and saved their side from wh it might have been a great disaster. Throughout the game tne fortunes of either side varied in a most marked manner. When Surrey won the toss and went in on a perfect wicket it was generally felt that they would almost certainly make enough runs to secure them from defeat, whatever afterwards happened. Abel and Brockwell started very slowly, and in the course of a partnership which produced 85 runs in an hour and a-half never obtained any real command over the bow ling; they had to fight hard all the time to make runs. Brockwell was the first to go, having made many more ruis than falls to the lot of most profes­ sionals in their own benefit match. Still the Surrey men could not get any command over the bowling, and when four of their best men were out for !25, in­ cluding Hayward, who was run out by Denton, things looked bad for them. But splendid cricket by Lock­ wood and Mr Jephson completely altered the state of affairs, and when, after being together for two hours and three-quarters, they were at last parted the score had been increased by 208 runs. It was certainly a cheerless outlook for t orkshire when 333 runs were on the board and only four wickets down and Lock­ wood and Mr. Jephson both playing maguiflcent cricket. Then cam? one of the startling changes for which the game was notable, and in a few minutei more Lockwood, Mr. Jephson and Mr. Crawford were all in the pavilion, the former having only missed his hundred by two, while the latter, who was brilliantly run out by Denton, had played one of the best innings of his career. W ith the total at 338 for seven wickets stumps were drawn. The tail did very little on Friday morning, and it was not a huge total, as things go, that Yorkshire had to go in against. For a few minutes things went badly with them, Lockwood at point making a brilliant catch which disposed of Wainwright, and Denton being bowled in attempting to pull Richardson. Two wickets for 13. But Mr. Taylor and Tunnicliffe soon showed that a collapse need not be looked for, and at luncheon they were still in with the score at 101. When the game was resumed the light was bad, and in ten minutes the Yorkshiremen must have felt that things were looking quite homelike, for it was necessary to stop the game. A few minutes afterwards down came the rain, and there was an end of play for the day. It was quite possible that when the game was resumed on Satur­ day morning the Yorkshiremen might not be able io adapt themselves to the altered condition of the wicket, but Mr. Taylor and Tunnicliffe found that, although it was slow, it was not difficult in the absence of the sun, and accordingly they made the very best use of th ir opportunicies. When they hid once got down to the bed rock of the Surrey b >wling the rest was comparatively easy, and the two York­ shiremen kept together until they had added 201 in two hours and a-half to the total since th -ir partner­ ship began. Tunnicliffe went first; he was at the wickets for two hours and forty minutes for his 1 Jl, and played the very soundest cricket. Hirst was the next batsman, and realising that the wicket was likely to get more difficult he did not let the grass grow under his feet, but made his 59 runs in forty minutes. There were now four wickets aown for 309, fio that Yorkshire could hardly lose the match under any conceivable circumstances. Mr. Taylor survived until 329, when at last he was ouc for a splendid innings of 147, put together iu four hoars by the best of all-round cricket. Lord Hawke made a useful 23, but the wicket was ' ecoming more and more difficult, and it was felt that Yorkshire had done a grei.t per­ formance in heading the Surrey score by .0 Surrey went in with a little more than an hour and a-h«lf before them. No one was prepared for the scene which followed. In the course of five overs H aigi and Rhodes between them disposed of Brockwell, Abel, Hayes and Lockwood for four runs. Here was something sensitional indeed. It was within the bounds of possibility that the Yorkshiremen, with their tails up, might dispose of the remain ng batsmen in time to snatch a victory, and if only they could have got rid of either Mr. Jeph<ou or Hayward they might have accomplishe i their object. As it was they gave Mr. Jephson a life, and their hopes gradually dwindled until when, after batting for forty minutes, Hayward was out l.b.w. for 8, it was almost six o’clock. Even now Surrey were only 10 runs on, but there was practically no chance of finishing the match, and although the remaining wickets fell pretty quickly, Yorkshire had no time to go in again. Of course the S irrey men were simply playing ag linst time ; they did not, rightly or wrongly, try to make runs. SlTBBEY. First innings Second innings. Abel, c Hunter, b Smith ... 53 c Hirst, b Rhodes 3 Brockwell, c Tunnicliffe, b vVainwright ... ... .. 43 b Haigh ....... 1 Hayes,c Wainwright,b Smith 5 b Haigh ....... 1 Lockwood, b Hirst .........98 lbw, b Rhodes... 0 Hiyward, run out .........12 lbw, b Rhodes... 8 D. L A . Jephson, run out . 121 b Haigh .....21 Y. F. S. Crawford, c Smith, b Hirst.................................. 4 b Haigh ....... 0 E M. Dowson, b Haigh ... 2 b Haigh ....... 0 Lees, not out........................... 4 c Wainwright, b Rhodes .......... 3 Richardson, b Sm ith.........13 b Haigh ....... 2 Scedmin, c Tunnicliffe, b S m ith ................................... 2 no1: o u t .......... 8 Lb 2, nb 1 ................... 3 Byes ........... 5 Total ...........363 Y orksh ire . T ota l...........52 Lord Hawke, c Craw­ ford, b Richardson 23 Hunter, b Richardson 8 Haigh, c Jephson, b Richardson ........... 9 Rhodes, not o u t ......... 4 B 3 ,lb2, w l,n b 1... 7 Total ...........380 Tannicliffe,b J-*phs >n 101 Waiawright, c Lock- w ojd, b Richardson 3 Dentoa, b Richardson I T. L Tayl >r, c Dowson, b Richardson.........147 Hirst, b Lees ...........69 Washington, c Craw­ ford, b Lees ........... 4 E. Smith, c Richard­ son, b Lees ...........14 SUBBEY. First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. Smith .. ... 39 1 5 108 4 ........... 2 2 0 0 Rhodes ......... 43 15 73 0 ............ 13 7 26 4 Haigh ....... 25 6 73 1 ........... 13 2 3 21 6 Wainwright ... 20 5 61 1 ............ 1 1 0 0 H irst...................11 0 41 2 ............ Tunnicliffe ... 2 1 1 0 ............ Smith delivered one no-ball Y o rk sh ire . O. M. R. W. Richardson 37*4 4 119 6 Jephson ..3 2 0 42 1 Lockwood 14 3 62 0 Brockwell 8 2 31 0 Abel ... Lees ... Dowson O. M. R. W . 3 0 10 0 . 18 3 53 3 U 0 55 0 Lockwood bowled one wide and Dowson one no-ball. SUSSEX v. MIDDLESEX. A REMARKABLE INNINGS BY RANJITSINHJI. Played at Brighton on July 26, 27 and 28. Drawn. Not even the most violent opponents of the present big scores will venture to raise a word of protest at^ainst the runs made by K. S. Ranjitsinhji and Mr. C. B. Fry in this m itch. Middlesex had put on four hundred runs, so that Mr. Fry’s innings of a hundred was very valuable. As for Ranjitsiohji’s 202, it is more worthy of celebration in verse by a poet laureate than very many of the events—such as the birth of another prince—which have to be honoured by him. Ranjitsinhji had made 38 of his runs before a tremen­ dous thunderstorm stopped play on Friday, and on Saturday, when the bowlers had the best of matters, and when the rest of the 8 ussex men who had to go in could only keep up their wickets for a time at tue best, he played as he only can play, and scored 80 per cent, of the runs made. The result was that his county was in a splendid position at the end of the match. He was batting for only three hours—it was absolutely necessary tor him to make runs very quickly if his side was to get out of a tight place — and he rose to the occasion as he has so often before. His innings included thirty-five 4’s. By the side of this wonderful innings everything else in the match se^ms by compirison unimportant, but the cricket playe 1 for Ylidd e*ex by vlr. H. B. Hayman. Rawlin an 1 Mr Bosanquet. and, by no means ’east that in the secon i innings by Mr. Nich<»lls an Mr. MacGregor was well w »rthy of notice N >r mu*»t Killick’s very us ful 39 for Sussex be forgotten. Again, in the matter of bowling, Mr. Goldie, Bland and Tate, for Sussex, deserve sp°cial mention. Trott was exceed­ ingly expensive, for Ranjicsinhji was very severe on him, but nobody else seemed to have any power over the batsmen. But it was the match of Ranjitsinhji and Fry without a doubt Between them they scored 312 out of 393 from the bat made by their side. M id d le se x . First innings. Second innings. P. F. Warner, b Tate.......... 14 st Butt, b Bland 10 H. B Hayman, c Smith, b Tate .................. ......... 83 c Goldie, b Tate 15 B. J. T. Bosanquet, c Fry, b Goldie ........................... 86 b Bland ............... 4 H, W . Kaye, c Ranjitsinhji, b Brann .......................... 27 c Killick, b Tate 9 R. W. Nicholls, c Ranjit- sinhii, b Tate .................. 5 c Ranjitsinhji, b Rawlin, c Butt, b Goldie ... 66 Trott, b Goldie ...................15 G. MacGregor, not out ... 38 H. J. Wyld, c Ranjitsinhji, b Goldie .......................... 15 W . Williams, c Killick, b Relf .................................. 37 Heame (J. T.), c Butt, b Tate ................... g B 6 , lb 4, w i, nb 1 ... 12 T a te........... b Bland c and b Bland not out........... b T a te ......... b T a te........... b T a te........... T otal.. ...........401 S u sse x . Total ...118 C. B. Fry, c Rawlin, b T rott.........................110 K. S. Ranjitsinhji, lbw, b Trott ...........202 Relf, lbw, b Hearne ... 8 Killick, b Trott . ...3 9 K. O. Goldie, lbw, b T ro tt........................... 2 Vine, c and b Williams 17 Butt, lbw, b Trott ... C. L. A. Smith, b Trott Bland, b Rawlin G. Brann, not out ... Tate, b Trott ........... B 3, lb 3, nb 1 ... Total ...400 Second in n in g s R e lf, not out, 8 ; Killick, not out, 4.—Total (no wicket) 12. Bland .. T ite ........... Smith ........... Relf ........... K illic k ......... Brann ........... Ranjitsinhji G oldie........... M id d le se x . First innings. O. M. R. W. 8 3 4 1 . 9 15 , 9 12 Second innings. O. M. R. W . 18 3 52 4 19 2 59 6 Killick delivered a no-ball and G S u sse x . First innings. O. M. R. W . Trott ................... 53 1 8 204 7 1 0 7 0 Idie a wide. Second innings. O. M. R. W. H earne................ 32 7 117 1 Williams ........... 15 3 38 1 ............ Rawlin................... 13 6 34 1 ............ Warner ... 2 1 4 0 Bosanquet... 2 1 8 0 Williams bowled a no-ball. KENSINGTON PA RK v. TEDDING TON.—Played at Teddington on July 28. K ensington P a r k . C. Macd maid, c sub., b Crawford ........... 0 G. J. Donaldson, st Lee, b Crawford ... 9 G. T. Campbell, run out .........................41 T. W. Hemmerde, b Craw ford..................74 W. R. Murray, b Worsley ................ 0 M A . Nicholas, c Johnson, b Payne .. 2 A. W. Watson, c Worsley, b Payne .. 7 C.E Reynolds, c Bow­ den-Smith, b Wors­ ley .......................... 19 L. E. G. Abney, c Dixon, b Worsley... 7 H.D. Nicholas, not out 8 W . A. McEnery, b Worsley ................... 0 B 6 , lb 1, w 1, nb 5 13 T ed din gto n . Total ..180 J. Bowden- 8 mith, b Cam pbell...................47 A Worsley, st Rey­ nolds, b H. Nicholas 4 J. W. Crawford, c and b H. Nicholas.......... 4 F. Payne, not out ... 21 R. N. Hincks, c and b H. Nicholas ........... 1 J. R. Mead, st Rey­ nolds, b H. Nicholas 0 _ Ferguson and F. Johnson did not bat. S. H. Lee, c Watson, b H emm erde........... 9 G. B. Crowder, lbw, b H. Nicholas ...........16 C. H. W . Dixon, not out ........................... 8 B 8 , lb 2, nb 1 11 Total (7 wkts) ...121