Cricket 1900

402 ORIOKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. S ept . 13, 1900. “ D o you think you are as fast now as most of the E nglish fast bowlers ? ” “ I think I am faster than those I have seen. Richardson was, perhaps, the fastest, but he is not as fast as I am now. T hey tell me that he used to be much faster. B u t I don’t think he could ever have bow led as fast as I do if he had taken as short a run. I have tried to see what I could do w ith a longer run, but I didn’t like it. I like bow ling on a fiery wicket best. W e had one or tw o in E ngland, and I did w ell on them . W e had one at Stoke, but H ollowood played one of the pluckiest innings I ever saw, and made a hundred against us. I hit him all about the ribs and legs, but he kept in all the same. O f course, I didn’t try to do this, but you can’t help it if you are a fast bowler when you get a fiery w icket.” “ W h a t have you learned in the way of bow ling since you arrived in England ? ” “ I think the tw o best things were to try to keep a good length and not to m ind being hit. B u t this is not very easy. M r. Stoddart hits very hard ; but he did not hit as hard as M r. Jessop. I did not know how to bow l to M r. Jessop, for it did not seem to matter whether the ball was straight or not. H e hit it some­ where or other, but you never knew where it was goin g to go . I tried to stop him all I knew , but nothing can be done when he gets started.” “ D id you ever try to bat well P” “ I can’t bat w ell. B u t I sometimes make a few runs. M y best innings this tour was 36 at the Crystal Palace. M r. Grace’s bow ling fooled us. H e didn’t put on any break that I saw, but he seemed to make the b all curl in from leg. I hit him several times for four, which pleased me very m uch ; and it pleased him too .” “ W ere you much discouraged when London County made so m any runs against you at the C rystal Palace in your first m atch ? ” “ N o . I thought that we should make as m any runs as they did. B u t we had had very little practice, and we got out. But it gave m e pleasure to bow l in the match, and I knew I should do better when I had been able to practise m ore.” “ W ere any particularly good catches made off you during the tour P” “ Burton took a nice catch off me at Southampton. It was at slip, very fast, and low down sideways. H inds also took a pretty one at slip. That was low down, too, w ith the left hand. Another fine one was by Constantine at square leg, just in front of the umpire. This was very low and hard. And M r. Goodman made a very pretty one at point. There were several others, but I don’t remember them n ow .” “ W here do you like fielding yourself P” “ Anywhere they p u t m e. I like fielding very much. Once I got m y feet wrenched in trying to turn quickly, but that was the only time I was hurt. W e were all lucky in not being hurt, but Constantine got a few blows when w icket- keeping. The only th in g most of us ever suffered from was a cold, though one or two had attacks of fever. But the climate did not upset us nearly as much as we expected. “ H ave you enjoyed the tour ? ” “ I enjoyed it very much. There was the cricket and going about in trains; I liked the views on the way, The travel­ ling didn’t tire me much and I never had to be left out of the team. I think I should like to live in England, though I don’t know whether I could stand the cold in the winter. W e did not like the cold weather when we first came over, but after a few weeks it was all right. T ou r sun seems to give a different kind of heat from ours, and makes you more tired after a day’s fielding.” “ W h at are your duties when you are at home P Are they like those of a pro­ fessional in E ngland p ” “ I have nothing to do with the ground, but I bow l at the nets. Sometimes i umpire, and I like this very w ell. I think that the umpiring in England was very good, but the umpires sometimes made mistakes which worried me at first. But I knew that they were doing their best.” “ W h at did you think of the voyage to E ngland p ” “ I liked it because I was not at all ill. Some of the team playt d cricket on board, but I did not. 1 don’t call that sort of game cricket at a ll.” W . A . B e t t e s w o r t b . BOM BAY PRESIDENCY v. PAESEES. Played at the Maidan, Bombay, on August 17 and 18. Parsees won hy 135 runs. So much interest is taken in this match nowadays that about ten thousand spectators, including their Excellencies Lord and Lady Northcote, were present on the first day. The match was played on a fiery wicket, which was a decided advantage to the Parsees, who had two or three good fast bowlers who bumped considerably, while the Englishmen had no one who could reap much advantage from the wicket. The umpiring was pretty had all through the match, and in the first innings of the Parsees the Englishmen did so badly in the way of dropped catches that they may he said to have lost the game before they went to the wickets. Only two of the Parsees made a good score in the first innings; they were both missed badly almost as soon as they went to the wickets. Billimoria played an excellent innings for 48, while Mody ‘ ‘ stone­ walled ” for 46— a very useful innings. The Englishmen began very badly indeed, and there was never at any period of their innings the least appearance of a very determined resistance to the bowling. Three wickets were down for 24, four and five for 30, and six for 34, the Parsees fielding splendidly all the time. Pochkhanawalla and. Billimoria each made catches which would have brought down the house at the Oval or Lord’s. On the first innings the Parsees had a lead of 96, and when each side had batted stumps were drawn. On the Saturday the fortunes of the game still went against the Englishmen, and the Parsees steadily added to their lead. Billimoria again played the highest innings on the side; he once had a very narrow escape, Douglas getting well on to a ball which was hit to leg from a full pitch, and falling headlong over a tent peg as he was making the catch. The Englishmen eventu­ ally had to make 207, and again failed badly, Mr. Sale and Mr. M . E. Jardine (the old Oxford Blue) being the only two men who offered any resistance to the bowling. Bulsara had a remarkable analysis. P a r s e e s . First innings. D.D.Kanga.c Greig, b W ood 15 D. E. Mody, b G re ig ...........46 H. Kanga, c Bond, b Greig 6 Karaka, e Smith, b W ood-.. 0 Billimoria,o Browne,b Greig 48 Raja, c Tomkins, b W ood-.. 5 Belgaumwalla, c Jardine, b W o o d .................................. 3 K. K . Kharas, c and bW ood 4 Pochkhanawalla, c Smith, b W o o d ..................................11 M . Bulsara, cW ood, b Greig 3 A . H . Mehta, not out........... 0 Extras........................... 6 Second innings, c Tomkins, b Jar­ dine ...................29 lbw, b Browne ... 27 c Jaldine, b Greig 3 e Bond, b Greig 4 e Jardine, bW ood 31 stTomkins,bGreig 0 b Raikes ........... 8 not out................... 7 cTom ios.bW ood 7 st Tomkits, b Raikes 1 c bond, b Raikes 0 Extras........... 4 Total..................147 P r e s id e n c y , First innings. Capt.A.P.Douglas.cKharas, b Butsara ...........................10 Lieut.E.N. Bosworth-Smith, c Billimoi ii. b Mehta ... 2 M. R. Jardine, b Mehta ... 0 Capt. J. G. Greig, c Raja, b Mehta .................................11 Lieut M .D .W ood.b Bulsara 6 Capt. Bond, c Billimoria, b bulsara ........................... E. Sale, c Pochkhanawalla, b Bulsara ........................... Duncan, b Bulsara ........... Lieut.JI. E. Browne, e and b M e h ta .................................. Capt Tomkins, c Billimoria, b Mehta ........................... E. B. Raikes, not out........... Extras........................... Total ...121 Second innings. b Bulsara ........... 8 b Bulsura ........... 7 n o to u t................. 21 c R a ji, b Mehta 5 b Buleara ........... 3 0 c Raja, b Bulsara 0 lbw, b Bulsara ... 24 lbw, b Bulsara ... 7 7 cMehta.b Buisara 2 c and b Bulsara 2 b Mehta ........... 0 Extras... ... 3 Total .. ...........51 Total ... 82 P arsers . First inniDgs. Second innings. O . M. R. W . O . M . R. W. Raikes ........... 6 1 16 0 .. ... 6 4 4 2 3 Greig ...........29 11 56 4 ... ... 11 2 33 3 W ood ...........21 5 51 6 ... ... 10 1 37 2 Bond ........... 5 0 10 0 Hale ... ............. 5 1 8 0 Jardine ... 5 0 25 1 Irow ne ... 4 0 20 1 P resid en cy . First innings. Second innings. O . M. R. W . 0 . M. K. W. A. Mehta ... 17 6 28 5 ... ... 16 3 46 2 M. buleara ... 16 7 21 5 ... 15 3 31 8 Pochkhauaw-»lla. 1 0 2 0 NORWOOD v. FOREST H IL L .-P layed at Perry Hill on September 8. N o r w o o d . 8. Hollands, c W il- W. Ga’ ley, st Biiggs, 1ams, b Welchman 0 b W elch m an........... 0 J. P. Irons, c sub., b A. T. French, hit wkt, W illiam s................... 13 b Weichmxn ........... 4 W . trjw n , run out ... 12 A. Lewin,b W elchman G. F. HepLurn, b W il­ 0 A. Francis, c and b W illia m s ................. 1 liams ................... 1 M. D. Hallam, b C. A. Bripgs, not out 0 Williams ... 11 L x u a s ................... 4 A. P. Koe, c Nixon, b --- Welchman ........... 1 Total ........... 47 F o r e s t H il l . H. A . Hooker, lbw, b Roe .................. ... 18 R. K . Stevens, c Irons, b Roe.......................... 4 F. Woodman, run out 10 Dr. Bundy, low, b Brown ...................39 '1otal (7 wkts) 121 C. Phillips, b Roe ... 0 C. J. Welchman and J. Briggs d d not bat W . R. Williams, b Roe 2 K. Nixon, b French ... 28 «!. Le &l»y. i ot out ... 1 Dean, not out ........... 1 Lsitraa................. IS