Cricket 1901

26 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. F eb . 28, 1901. Clem H ill and Reedman, last December, at Adelaide. A l r e a d y M . A. Noble has, so it is said, played more innings of three figures for New South Wales than any other cricketer past or present. He has made seven, Iredale five, and S. E. Gregory and Trumper four each. In Sheffield Shield matches, that is for New South Wales against Victoria and South Australia, Noble has made 1,730 runs, averaging 55'80 per innings. His scores in these fixtures are : 200,155,153*, 153, 122,101, 100, 80, 71, 69, 56, 55, 46, 40, 38, 38, 34*, 30, 30, 28, 27, 22, 16*, 13, 13, 12, 8, 7, 5, 5, 1, 1 ,0 , and 0. In six of the last nine matches he had made a century. Though his performances will in no way bear comparison with those of Noble it will be o f interest to the majority of Cricket readers to know that the brightest and best of batsmen as well as of fielders, Sydney Gregory, brought his aggregate for New South Wales to 1,033 on January 7th, with his fine innings of 168 against South Australia. H is last eight scores against South Australia have been 89, 14, 173, 5, 24, 51, 81, and 168. F r o m the Indian papers, it is interesting to note, that M. E. Pavri, who played such exceptionally fine all-round cricket for Eastbourne last summer, has been doing some good performances for Bangalore within the last few weeks. Bow ling unchanged for the Bangalore Gymkhana throughout the innings of the M iddlesex Regiment he took five wickets for 33 juns. Surgeon-Captain Standage, an old Bart’s student, who came late, took the last four wickets at a cost of only eight runs. The Gymkhana, who had to go in against 112, in their turn scoied 235, Lieut-Col. Peterkin, after making 100 of them in slashing B tjle , retired. Standage, who was as successful with the bat as with the ball, contributed 49. A n o t h e r record gone by the board, and very much so. From 1886 to 1900, the best total in first class cricket was Yorkshire’s 887inl896, againstWarwick- shire, at Birmingham. But they went several better at Sydney on January 7th, when New South Wales scored 918 against South Australia. This is indeed the third highest score ever made in any match, the record so far, 1,094 of Mel­ bourne University against Essenden, and the second highest, the 922 of Carlton C.C., against Melbourne University. The follow ing are the totals over 600 made b y Australian teams in first-class crick et:— 918—N .S.W . v. South Australia, Sydney, 1801. 843—Australia v. Oxford and Cambridge, Past and Present, 1693. 839—N .S.W . v. Tasmania, Sydney, 1898. 807—N .S.W . South Australia, Adelaide. 1S99. 776—N.S.W . v. Victoiia, Sydney, 1*82 643—Australians v. Sussex, Brighton, 1884. 640—N.S.W . v. Queensland, Sydney, 1899. 625—Austral ans v. Derbyshire, Dert y, 1896. 624—Four wickets, Australians v. Sussex, Brighton, 1899. 619—Australians v. Combined X I., Melbourne, 1684, 602 —Victoria v. New Zealand, Melbourne, 1899. A n o t h e r record w a s the outcome of the N ew South Wales’ innings of 918, above mentioned. This was the result of the five hundreds made by F. A. Iredale, M . A . Noble, S. E . Gregory, R. A. Duff, L . O . S. Poidevin respectively. In no first class match previously had five bats­ men scored a hundred in one innings. As a mere record of a historic innings, it may be as well to give all the several hits and the fall of the wickets. New South Wales.—First innings. Y.Trumper,4442222112111441411414111424141, bF . Jarvis .......................................................... 70 F. A. Iredale, 4321411241444141112211411122112 4211411214114441124443, c A. H. Jarvis, b Travers .................................................. 118 M. A. Noble, 24214144144424213341431113421441 11142211241134241121114111213421323, C Giffen, b M atthews.................................. 153 A. J. Hopkins, 21124421424, c A. H. Jarvis, b Travers......................................................... 27 S. E. Gregory. 2322242341111142114412232114112 4134141442443242441412424141445524, b F. Jarvis .................................................. 168 R. A. Duff, 241124412111211444124114224212443 41131332224411442, st A. H. Jarvis, b Travers.......................................................... 119 L. O. S. Poidevin, 312411111411141411121241124 111313444244214444224443141141111112, notout ... ......................... — ........... 140 T.H.Howard, 42414424241242214424412. c Bailey, b M atthews.................................................. 64 J. J. Kelly. 3131111311111441411, cH ill, b Hack 34 A. M ’Beth, 12211, cW alkeley, b Bailey ........... 7 J. J. Marsh, 1, lbw., b Travers .......................... 1 Byes 414, leg-byes 2111111 ........... 17 Total .................. 918 Fall of wickets: 148, 238, 3(5, 413, 627, 679, 784, 800, 911. T rue to its traditions, Bussey’s Cricketer’s Companion and Diary comes up well to time early in the New Year. I t has now reached its tenth year, and as it is of the seme handy size, well within the capacity of a waistcoat pocket, besides containing a mass of use­ ful and interesting facts with regard to the last as well as the coming season, one can conscientiously recommend it as a really valuable companion for cricketers of every kind. In addition to the diary, which provides plenty of space for the insertion of daily engagements, several pages have been added, enabling players to keep a record of their performances with bat and ball throughout the season. O n e of the very best of several good performances with the ball, in the generally low scoring match between South Australia and Victoria in the first week of the year, was that of J. F. Travers, in the first innings of Victoria. The young Scuth Australian took nine of the ten Victorian wickets at a cost of only thirty runs. An Adelaide critic in noticing the feat, points out that George Giffen has taken nine wickets in an innings for South Australia three times, and J . Grilty once. T he exigencies of a more serious game on another field has evidently not prevented the keener cricketers, in the distressful country o f the Transvaal, just now keeping themselves in a certain degree of form. In the return match between Pretoria and Johannesburg, played on the ground of the Wanderers, at the Band, the latter reversed the result of the previous game, winning by 98 runs. The scores were, Johannesburg, after a first innings of 321, declared their second with the total at 138 for three wickets. Pretoria, who had made 256, were left with 198 to win, but were all dismissed for 99. The honours of the day belonged to A. E. Prince who, in addition to a fine score of 170 not out for Johannesburg, divided the ten wickets in Pretoria’s second innings equally with Sinclair. T h e record of J. C. Reedman, the present captain o f the South Australia team for his colony is one that will take some beating. The Inter-State match with New South Wales at Sydney, at the commencement of last month, represented his fiftieth appearance for South Australia. He played his first match in 1888, and has not missed one ever since. Born on October 9th, 1867, Reedman is in his 34th year. His record includes twenty-three matches against Victoria, every one of the twenty-one matches with New South Wales, and five with English teams. These, with one game with Queensland, give him a record of fifty consecutive matches without a break. T h e “ home w eek ” of the Granville (Lee) C.C. this year will commence on June 17th. It will consist of six day matches against M .C.C. and Ground, Wanderers, Mote, Forest H ill, Erratics, and Blackheath in the order given. Granville are not arranging any tour for next summer. M r. P. K . B o w d e n , the secretary of the New South Wales Cricket Association, may be expected on English grounds during the com ing summer. H e was to leave Australia this month on six months’ leave, and is due in England just before the commencement of the next cricket 6eason. T h e Rev. P. S. Waddy, who made 54 for Maitland district against the Sydney Club at Sydney, on the twelfth of last month, is the useful and all-round cricketer who got his blue at Oxford in 1896. He returned to his home in New South Wales at the end of last year, and will be located at Newcastle, New South Wales, where he has received an appoint­ ment as an assistant at the pro Cathedral. R. A. D tjfe , one of the five batsmen to make a hundred in the record innings of New South Wales against South Australia on January 7th, followed up his success by another score of three figures in his very next match, 121 for North Sydney v. Redfern. T h e cricket world generally will be relieved to hear that the Committee of the Marylebone Club are taking action in the matter of the pronouncement of the county captains, or rather of a majority of them, at their meeting on December 10th, with regard to certain bowlers. The result of the subsequent agitation is a circular from the MC.C. to the county clubs, asking if the respective committees wish the Marylebone Club, to consider the resolution passed by the captains, with regard to the non- observance of Law 48, and pronounce