Cricket 1900

F eb , 22, 1900. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 29 IN TERCO LON IAL CR ICKET . NEW SOUTH WALES v. VICTORIA. The New South Wales eleven, who had been showing fine all round form during the season, gained an easy victory over their old rivals of Yictoria at Melbourne at the end of last year. The match, the sixty-third of the series, was begun on December 23rd and continued on Decem­ ber 26th, 27th and 28 th. New South Wales, who had a strong batting side, got first use of a fine wicket. The Vic­ torians were without C. McLeod, who was unable to play owing to pressure of business, and his bowling was greatly missed. Trumper, who went in first, made 57 out of 89, and D jnnan, who opened the batting with him, was second out at 198. Noble, who was in for three hours and a-half, was at his best in making his 122. At the end of the first day the score was 321 for three wickets, Mackenzie not out 52. On the second day (December 26th) rain fell after lun­ cheon, and on a wet wicket and with a wet ball the Victorian bowling fared badly. Iredale and Hopkins both played fine cricket, and when stumps were drawn both were still in (Iredale 67 and Hopkins 44) with the total 469 for five wickets. On the following morning, though Hopkins was soon dismissed, Iredale continued to play excellent cricket on the difficult wicket until he was well caught at long on. The innings eventually closed for 520. Trumble was the most succtseful bowler, taking five wickets for 149 runs in 381 balls. As the wicket was the Victorians had a very difficult task before them when they went in to bat. Graham, who was in two hours for his 39, was indeed the only one who made any lengthy stay against the bowling of Howell, Noble and Hopkins. The fielding of New South Wales was excellent throughout, and Kelly kept wicket in his veiy best form. In the follow-on Worrall and Warne had made 35 without the loss of a wicket when play ceased on the third day. Heavy ram on the third night still further reauced the chances of the Victorians, who still wanted 364 to avoid an innings defeat. Play could not be resuruid until two o’clock, and then Noble and Hopkins bowled with such success ihst the match was soon over. Thanks to the good cricket of Worrall and Waine the score at one time was 91 with only three bats­ men out. Warne was fourth wicket down for 93, but after his dismissal no one could do anything with Hopkins and Noble. The last seven wickets only added 24 runs, and in the end New South Wales were left with a decisive victory by an innings and 274 runs. N e w S outh W a l e s . Trumper, c and b T ru m ble.................. 57 Donnan,cRoss,bBruce 74 Noble, c Laver, b Worrall .......................................................................... 122 M ’Kenzie, c M ’Allis- ter, b Trumble ... 65 Gregory, c Worrall, b Collins ............................................................................28 Iredale, c M’Michael, b Trumble ...........91 Total ....................520 V ic t o r ia . First innings. Worrall, c Iredale, b Howell 19 M’Michael, c Hopkins, b Howell .......................... 3 Graham,clredale.b Hopkins 39 Laver, c and b Howell ... 1 Ai’Alister, c Hopkins, b H ow ell................. ... 8 Trumble, c Gregory ,b Noble 12 Farquhar, b Stuckey, c Hopkins Bruce, b Noble .......... Warne, not out ... ... Ross, c Kelly, b Noble Collins, b Noble ........... Extras................... Total .......... .. 131 Second innings, c Howell, b Noble 45 b Noble ........... 1 c Iredale, b H op­ kins ...............14 c and b Hopkins 1 lbw, b Noble ... 5 c Iredale, b Hop­ kins ............. 1 c M’ Kenzie, b H opkins............ 5 run out ............ 6 c Kelly, b Noble 28 not out................... 5 c Farquhar, b H opkins............ 0 Extras .......... 4 T o ta l............115 N ew S outh W a les . B. R. M. W , B. R. M. W . Collins ... 204 1043 1 Warne...72 511 0 Trumble 381 149 17 5 Bruce ... 126 56 3 1 Laver ...322 135 11 2 |Worrall ... 30 10 1 1 Collies bowled one wide and Trumble two widts. Pye ... Howell Noble . Hopkins V ic t o r ia . First innings. B. R. M. W . ........... 103 23 7 0 .. ........... 126 63 6 4 .. ......... 74 27 5 4 .. .. 48 19 1 2 ... Second inniD gs. B. R. M. W. 6 1 0 0 ... 90 19 6 0 .. 144 51 8 4 ... 41 24 1 5 Trumper 24 17 1 0 Noble bowled one no-ball. lb w, and b Hopkins, Laver... Farquhar, Trumble ........... ... Kelly, not out Pye,cWorrall, b Laver Bowell, c Stuckey, b T ru m ble.................. E xtras . . . . . NEW SOUTH WALES v. TASMANIA. A close and exci’ ing game was the result of the second match between these colonies began at Hobart Town on December 30ch. New South Wales had nothing like as strong a side as iu th^ previous season, but one of quite sufficient strength, as the play showed. Tasmania, winning the toss, batted first, and made full use of an excellent wicket. Gate­ house, Windsor, Burn and Savigny all rcored well, with in the result a total of 420. New South Wales in their turn did even better, beiug 28 to the good when the last wicket fell. The chief features of the innings were the dashing cricket of Evers, the New South Wales wicket­ keeper, and Jansen. In the Tasmanians second innings Eady was absent. This time McBeth atd Clarke bowled with great success, and H. Hale and Pickett were the only batsmen to get over twenty runs. At the finish New South Wales had an apparently easy task with cnly 113 to win. As it happened a tine piece of bowling by Wiudsor kept the game interesting:, and six wickets of New South Wales fell before the winning hit was made. T a sm a n ia . First innings. C. J. Eady, c Evers, b Coll- reavy .................................. 8 J. H. Savigny, c Duff, b Newell..................................77 H. Hale, b Clarke .......... 19 K. Burn, lbw, b Newell ... 86 E. A. W ind-or, c Duff, b Newell..................................89 G. H. Gatehouse, c Clarke, b McBeth .........................1C6 Reg. Hawson, b Newell ... 4 H. W ilson, c Diamond, b Collreavy .......................... 5 C. McAllen, c Evers, b M c­ Beth ..................................11 C. Hammond, b Collreavy... 2 A . H. Pickett, not out ... 2 E xtras..........................12 First innings. R. Duff, c McAllen, b Savigny ........................... N ew S outh W a l e s . Second innings. 49 C. Gregory, b Windsor ... 10 H. Evers, c Gatehouse, b Eady ....................................138 L. Poidevin, b Eady ...............31 C. Jansen, c Reg. Hawson, b Wilson .................. ...105 A. Newell, b Eady .............. 21 H. Quist, c and b Eady ... 25 A. Diamond, not o u t ..............46 B. Collreavy, c Gatehouse, b Picketr. ............................ 0 G. Clarke, b Pickett ............. 4 A. McBeth, b Eady .......... 6 E xtras...............................10 Extras ........... 3 Total .................... 448 Total( 6 wkts) 113 c Gatehouse, b Pickett ........... 6 b W indsor...........12 lbw, b Windsor .. 6 b W indsor...........55 b W indsor........... 0 not o u t .................... 10 not o u t.................. 3 b Windsor ... 15 Total . 420 Second innings absent................... 0 c Newell, b M c­ Beth ................. 4 c Evers, b Coll­ reavy ...........44 b McBeth ...........10 c Collreavy, b Clarke ...........18 lbw, b M cBeth... 0 n o to u t................. 11 c Newell,b Clarke 10 c and b Clarke ... 0 b Clarke ........... 0 c Evers.b McBeth 30 Extras ...........13 T o t a l...........140 T a sm a n ia . First innings. O. M. R. W . McBeth ... ... 31-3 11 75 2 ... ... 25 13 Collreavy... ... 4) 12 93 3 . ... 12 4 Clarke ... 37 5 113 1 ... ... 15 8 Newell ... ... 41 13 82 4 ... .. 20 3 Gregory ... ... 2 0 13 0 ... Jansen ... 3 1 6 0 ... Evers ... 1 0 8 0 ... Quist........... ... 4 1 18 0 ... Second innings. O. M. R. W. 4 1 N bw S outh W a l e s . First innings. Second innings. Eady ... Windsor Pickett... Savigny Hale ... W ilson... Burn ... O. M. R. W . 34 1 3 144 5 ... . 27 . 10 . 4 0 35 6 0 35 0 ... . 6 0 28 0 .. . 3 0 23 0 .. 4 119 2 ... 1 54 2 ... 1 ... O. M. R. W . ... 17 2 60 5 ... 16 3 47 0 VICTORIA v. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. The Victorian eleven had a little the best of the first match of the season » ith South Australia, begun at Melbourne on December 30th throughout. After the recent rains, the cricket was a trifle slow, and Victoria, who went in first, lost half their wickets for 104. A fine stand by Laver and McAlister, who added 77 ruus, was followed by another useful partner­ ship of Trumble and Ross. Trumble was in particularly fine form, and his innings of 95 which lasted two hours and fif j - five minutes, was almost without a bid stroke. The South Australians were handicapped by an injury to Giffen, who strained his side after bowling 115 bails, and was unable to take further part in ttin match. When the South Australians went in Hack made 54 with some luck. But the best batting was that of J. Darling and F. Jarvis, who neither gave a chance. The feature of Victoria’s second innings was the play of Graham and McMichael. The former shaped in his very best style, and his 77, a brilliant display of free cricket, was free from a mistake. McMichael’s innings was an equally creditable exhibition of dashing and vigorous cricket. He was batting two hours and thirty-eight minutes for his 63. With 402 to win, the South Australians had an almost impossible task before them. Hack again batted well, and when he was out, the second wicket, the score was 132. The rest of the batting was simply remarkable for the exceptionally brilliant cricket of Clem Hill. Going in first wicket down he carried out his bat. He waB at the wicket three hours and thirty-eight minutes, and in alt this time gave no