Cricket 1901

J u n e 6, 1901. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 185 than at any other, he actually scored 52 in twelve minutes, and in two others made 29 and 25 in five minutes. The first ol these feats was achieved in this way. He had made 33 in under ten minutes, and then hit Chinnery for four successive 4’s, a 2, and a single in one over. Mr. Thornton once made 107 in twenty-nine scoring strokes and 34 off nine halls. Jessop, on Saturday, made 30 and 29 oft two lots of nine halls — B osanquet: 4, 4, 1 ; T ro tt: 4, 4, 4, 0, 4,4 — 29. Chinnery : 4, 3, 4 ; Chinnery: 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 ,1 — 30. As he had got 13 off Trott’s previous over, he made off the fifteenth, sixteeeth and seventeenth overs he received no fewer than 43 runs. This was off fifteen successive halls, as he only got the fourth, fifth and sixth halls of the middle over, his last stroke off the fifteenth over heing a 3. In all, after he began to get the howling, he received sixty- four halls, and scored 122 off them, only eighteen escaping without paying toll. I n the second innings of Middlesex v. Gloucestershire, on Friday evening and Saturday morning, Mr. Warner and Mr. Hayman put on 200 runs in 95 minutes for the first wicket, the last 195 being put on in eighty minutes, an average of 146 per hour. It may, perhaps, be a record that two men in partnership put on 200 runs in 95 minutes, but it is not the fastest scoring in the same time. In 1890, on Saturday morning, June 21st, the Cambridge team, or rather, part of it, scored 209 in an hour and a half against Sussex, at Brighton. But such records as these cannot be kept properly. The total runs scored in Middlesex v. Gloucestershire was 1330, This is two runs short of the record for L ord’s. R e f e r r i n g to the prospects of the coming season of the Bombay Presidency, the Bombay Gazette says:— They are so gloomy for the Presidency, owing to the absence from Bombay of so many of the best European players, that the subject will bear going into thus early in the day. Last season the Presidency had a great array of talent to draw upon, the following players, though they did not all play in either of the matches, being available:—C. T. Studd, J. G. Greig, M. B. Jardine, E. B. Raikes, P. L. Sprott, A. P. Douglas, W . Drysdale, M. D. Wood, R. L. Sinclair, E. L. Sale, H. H. Bond, B. N. Bosworth-Smith, C. E. Champain, M. O. C. Tandy, and It. A. Cassels. This season no less than seven of these players will be absent, i.e., Greig, Baikes, Studd, Bond, Bosworth-Smith, Champain and Tandy, and with no corres­ ponding influx of new blood even the most sanguine supporters of the Presidency will he fain to admit that the outlook is none too promising. O n the other hand, our contemporary says that the Parsee team will probably be stronger than ever with the valuable services of M . E. Pavri available, and the Patiala contingent all in Bombay and able to practise regularly on the Bombay wickets. As it is always interesting to know what others think of us, it may be well to give the list of the players spotted by the Sydney Mail as the most likely to represent England against Australia. A t the date on which our contemporary gave its list the M .C.C. had not decided to abandon their intention of sending out a team. The list is as fo llow s:— K . S. Ranjitsinhji, C. B. Fry, R. Abel, T. Hayward, J. R. Mason, G. L . Jessop, A. C. MacLaren. W . Storer, W . H . Lockwood, A . A. Lilley, W . R. Rhodes, S. Haigh, Lord Hawke and W . M. Bradley. The follow ing is from the Sydney Referee :— A few Saturdays ago a match was played at Norwood Park between Petersham Veterans and Double Bay, in the course of which one of the Double Bay bowlers delivered eleven consecutive balls. He bowled a batsmen with his fifth ball, and was given an extra six balls, during which he bowled two more batsmen. He was about to deliver the twelfth ball, when the pavilionites shouted at the umpire (who happened to he a Veteran): “ I say, old man, come and have asleep?” ------ C a l c u t t a will be able to draw upon the follow ing players, among others, this y e a r H . Reynolds, C. Wigram , J. B. W ood, B. N. Bosworth-Smith, W . E. Moran, E . H . Bray, J. D. Guise and E. W . Collin. O n Thursday last, M r. H . B. Chinnery made his third successive hundred, scor­ ing 100 for Middlesex against Gloucester­ shire. H is two previous hundreds were both made for M .C.C. and Ground against Oxford University, on May 20th, 21st and 22nd . W h a t with the effects of the weather on the wickets, in some cases making them fiery, and in others treacherous, and the momentary disappearance of the stickers from the scene, we are rapidly approaching the millennium so earnestly desired b y enthusiasts. Of the eight first-class matches which were played at the end of last week no fewer than four were finished in two days, another lasted only for a few minutes on the Saturday, and a sixth was finished b y one o’clock. But sad to say there was not a single finish to these matches of the slightest interest, whereas the one match which was drawn was full of interest up to the very last moment. This week all the matches were finished, and not an exciting finish among them. ------- O n Thursday afternoon at Lord’s in the match between Middlesex and Gloucestershire a remarkable over was bow led by Roberts to Mr. H . B. Chinnery. The first ball went for four wides ; the second was steered through the slips to the boundary, while the last four balls were all driven to the boundary— a total of 24 for the over. T h e advantage of having a few reso­ lute hitters in a team was never better exemplified than in the above match. Here was Middlesex leading b y 217 on the first innings, and making runs whole­ sale in the second, and yet until a lead of nearly five hundred had been obtained the Middlesex captain did not dare to close his innings, because Mr. Jessop, Wrathall, and Board are all capable of B. Faw cett, c Russell, b Luxm ore ............120 A . F. Barnes, c and b L u xm ore... ............29 W .R .H .T aylor,notout 52 H . W hite, b Pullm an 36 F.8.Pardoe,stM urray, b A b n e v ..................... 8 B 15, lb 15, w 4 ... 34 making runs at an alarming rate. It may be doubted whether even the Sussex team with Mr. F ry and Rarjitsinhji both in brilliant form would have exercised the same influence on Mr. Macgregor. A lt h o u g h Mr. K itcat’s innings for Gloucestershire was not very large in point of the number of runs—he made 38 in the first innings and 35 in the second— there can be no doubt that Gloucester­ shire owed to him a great deal of their good fortune in making such a creditable draw. For each innings lasted for an hour and forty minutes, a total of three three hours and twenty minutes in all, during which one end was safe, and to a side which could not possibly win, this sort of thing was invaluable. T he highest innings of the present season was made on May 27 and 28 by Keble College against the Incogniti. The score is as follow s:— K eblk C ollege . R . F . Cardale, c L u x­ m ore, b Russell ... 7 H . C. B. Gibson, st M urray, b Pullm an 137 H . A . Barnes, lbw , b A bney ..................... 4 A.S.W etherall, b Pull­ m an ..............................134 R . H . C. Mertens, b Russell .....................12 H. V . J. W atts, c M u r- T otal ...........578 ray, b R u ssell............ 5 The Incogniti made 282, Mr. H . F. F ox scoring 127 not out. T he Veterans are goin g very strong again this yea r; and they make runs even when the bowlers have an advantage. The latest b ig innings b y one of them is the 127 b y W . Gunn for Notts v. Surrey. N ot even the most modem of batsmen could have played better cricket. One need only refer to the cricket played this year b y Abel, Dr. Grace, Mr. A. P . Lucas, and Mr. Murdoch, to prove that there must have been a few fairly good cricketers in days gone by, for although Abel may be a product of modern wickets, the others were at the zenith of their fame many years ago. Commenting on the averages of the Cape Town C.C. the Cape Times says of Frank Heam e, the brother of G. G. and Alec H eam e:— “ A pleasant feature of their cricket is the consistent manner in which Frank Hearne, year after year, maintains his position in the batting averages. H e is not as young or as strong as he used to be, his health is far from good, yet once again he ‘ bobs up serenely ’ at the head of the list. His average of 32'7 is a very good one, and even to-day he has few rivals, and no superiors, in South Africa in wrist strokes on the off.” O f Middleton, who heads the bow ling averages of the Cape Town C.C. our con­ temporary sa ys:— A lot of balderdash has been said about the decadence of Middleton’s howling, hut his figures do not confirm it. A man who can bowl right through a season, bear the brunt of the hard work—and it was hard work—and yet take three times as many wickets as his nearest rival at 40 per cent, less cost—he took