Cricket 1901

A u g . 1, 1901. CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 319 DERBYSHIRE v. LANCASHIRE. Played at Derby on July 29 and 30. Lancashire won by an innings and 184 runs. Believing that the wicket would play very queerly at first and would improve afterwards, Mr. Lawton, the Derbyshire captain, decided to put his opponents in. 'lhis policy, which had the approval of most of the team, did not turn out as satisfactorily as could have been wished by Derbyshire men, for Lancashire kept in all day and scored 371 for the loss of nine wickets. And yet, if the chances given by Ward and Tyldesley early in their innings had been taken, things might easily have turned out very differently. As it was, the two men obtained a complete mastery over the bowling after they had played themselves in, and for about three mortal hours and a-half the home team saw the advantage which they had gained from winning the toss slipping away from them faster and faster. The partnership produced 205 runs, and the cricket, bar the chances given by both men, was of the very best. They both left almost at the same total, and then there were signs of a great breakdown, which was, however, averted by some good play by Cuttell and Mr. Eccles. The total was increased by 45 on the next morning, Webb and Mr. Eccles both playing very well. When Derbyshire at last managed to get a knock things went about as badly with them as possible, and at lunch time they were all out for 92, and so had to follow on against a balance of 324 runs. In their second innings they were always playing a hopeless game, but Mr. Wright was in splendid form. L an cash ire . A. Eccles, c Storer, b Warren ................. Sharp, b Hulme Broughton, b Hulme Smith, b Bestwick ... Webb, not out .......... B 4, lb 6, nb 4 ... H. G. Garnett, b Hulme ... .....................................17 Ward, c Lawton, b Hulme ..........................................117 Tyldesley, b Bestwick 158 Hibbert, b Hulme ... 0 Hallows, b Bestwick 3 Cuttell, c Storer, b Hulme ........................................... 20Total, D e rb y s h ire . First innings. L. G. Wright, b Webb ... 9 Locker, b ^ e b b ............... 0 Storer, b C uttell..............17 Chatterton, b Cuttell.......11 Needham, b Cuttell ........ 1 Burton, b Cuttell............... 0 A. E. Lawton, b Webb ... 15 Young, b Cuttell............... 3 Warren, c Broughton, b Cuttell............................15 Hulme, c Garnett, b Cuttell 0 Bestwick, not out............... 5 B 7, lb 6, nb 3 ... 16 Total.............92 .. 416 Second innings, b Webb ... 52 st Smith, b Webb 0 b Cuttell .......... 7 c Broughton, b Webb .......... 7 c Tyldesley, b Webb .......... b Hallows.......... c Smith, b Cuttell 12 notout................ 4 17 17 run out c Tyldesley, b Webb ......... 5 c Cuttell, b Hal­ lows ................. 0 B 3, lb 6, nb 4 13 Total ...140 Hulme Warren . Bestwick . Young L a n ca s h ire . O. M. B. W. 59 18 135 6 , 18*1 1 69 1 . 32 11 99 3 13 5 32 0 O. M. R. W. Storer ... 6 1 36 0 Lawton ... 12 2 32 0 Chatterton 1 1 0 0 Bestwick delivered two no-balls, and Warren and Storer each one no-ball. Webb Cuttell D e r b y s h ir e . First inniogs. O. M. R. W . ......... 15 2 57 3 ... .......... 14 3 4 19 7 . . Second innings. O. M. R. W. 161 58 5 208 36 2 Hallows 13*5 1 33 2 Webb delivered seven no-balls. KENT v. SOMERSETSHIRE. Played at Catford on July 29 and 30. Kent won by 25 runs. At the beginning of this match Kent fared very badly, but towards the end of the day they had to some extent recovered their position, and when stumps were drawn were23 runs on with six wickets in hand. In their first innings they broke downbadly, but the situation was saved bv the splend d batting of Mr. Mason. There were six duck’s eggs (one not out) in the innings. No one in the Somerset team, which was without Mr. Palairet and Mr.Vernon Hill, distin­ guished himself greatly in batting, but most men did a little in the way of adding to the score. At lunch time with all their wickets in hand they were only 37 run** behind. At the end of the day Mr. Mason again played admirable cricket, and found very useful part­ ners in Mr. Day and Alec Heame. On the next morning he played splendid cricket, and brought his score to within nineteen of the hundred. Alec Hearne and Mr. Blaker also did very well indeed. The result was that Somerset had to make 157, a total which was a good deal higher than could have been anticipated. Mr. Woods and Robson set about the task in such a determined manner that they knocked ofF 53 of the runs in about half an hour before lunch without being separated, so that at this time Somerset with all their wickets in hand were only 105runsbehind. But when three more runs were added, Mr. Woods was bowled by Blythe, and at 65 Robson and Lewis were both out. Mr. Phillips played a great game, but Braund and Mr Porch did little, and steadily but surely Kent began to hold winning cards, Mr. Mason bowling with great effect. K e n t . First innings. Second innings. C. J. Burnup, st Wickham, b Braund ........................ E. W . Dillon, st Wickham, b Cranfield....................... 7 P. C. Baker, b Braund ... 0 S. H. Day, b Braund......... 1 J. R. Mason, st Wickham, b Braund .....................40 Hearne (A.), b Cranfield ... 2 R. N. R. Blaker, c Lewis, b Braund ....................... 0 Humphreys, b Robson ... 0 Huish, b Robson............... 0 Blythe, not out ................ 0 W. M. Bradley, b Robson... 0 B 15, lb 1 ..............16 c R o b s o n , Braund ... . b Braund ... . b Braund ... , b Cranfield... st Wickham, Braund ... b Gill .......... Total ..........73 b Braund ..........48 st Wickham, b Braund .......... 0 cBraund,bWoods 15 b Woods .......... 0 not out................. 6 B 12, lb 5, nb 1 18 Total ...240 S om ebset. First innings. S. M. J. Woods, c Blaker, b Hearne...............................28 Rot son, c Dillon, b Blythe 18 Braund. c Baker, b Hearne 10 F. A. Phillips, run out ... 2 Lewis, b Blythe ................. 7 R. B.Porch.c Huish, b Mason 20 0. 8amson, b Hearne ... . 21 G. Fowler, c Mason,b Blythe 0 Gill, not out ... .................30 Cranfield, b Hearne .......... 0 Rev. A. P. Wickham, Humphreys Second innings. b Blythe ..........39 cBradley,bBlythe 23 c Dillon,b Hearne 8 c Blythe, b Mason 45 c Huish, b Heame 1 b Mason .......... 5 b Mason .......... 1 b Mason .......... 4 10 c Huish, b Mason 0 not out............... 4 4 b Heame ......... 0 B 15, nb 1 .................16 No-balls ... 2 Total ... ..........156 Total ..132 K e n t . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Cranfield.......... 14 6 33 2 ... ... 22 6 34 1 Braund .......... 16 7 23 5 ... ... 35 8 107 6 Hobson .......... 2 3 1 1 3 ... ... 9 4 19 0 Gill ... ... 13 2 41 1 Woods ... 8 2 21 2 Gill delivered a no-ball. S om erset . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. Blythe ..........17’3 3 67 3 ... ... 17 7 25 2 Hearne .......... 15 5 42 4 ... ... 21*2 6 48 3 Mason ..........10 4 14 1 ... ... 9 1 30 5 Humphreys ... 2*3 0 17 1 ... ... 3 1 3 0 Bradley ... 2 0 24 0 Bradley delivered two no-balls. WARWICKSHIRE v. SURREY. Played at Edgbaston on July 29, 30 and 31. Warwickshire won by 16 runs. The Warwickshire captain won the toss, but would not take the risk of putting Surrey in, for although it seemed probable that the wicket woull get worse towards the end of the day, you can never tell what may happen on a modern wicket when the rain once gets well hold of it. There are some batsmen in the Warwickshire team who can play a bold game on a difficult wicket, and Devey, Charlesworth, Mr. Bain- bridge and Lilley came off pretty well, although Mr. Bainbridge was the only man who ventured to hit out vigorously. The steady men all kept in for a long time for their runs, but the wicket was too much in favour of the bowlers to allow them to remain long enough to be very dargerous. On the whole Warwick­ shire may be said to have done much better than was anticipated, and they cannot be blamed for choosing their own way of making runs, which eventually led them to victory. The Surrey bowling analysis reads a little curiously. It may be stated that it was impossible to begin play at the usual time, and it was nearly one o’clock before the first ball was bowled. Surrey had about forty minutes batting, and in that time Abel and Mr. Jephson made 24 runs without being separated. On the next morning they played very good but slow cricket, and then Abel and Hayes made another long stand. Abel was at last out after playing a most valuable innings, which lasted for two hours and twenty minutes. During the first hour and half he happened to have a partner who was scoring as slowly as himself, which made the play very tedious to watch, but afterwards when Hayes was hitting the usefulness of his steady play was brought out prominently. When Lockwood joined Hayes fifty runs were made in three-quarters of an hour, and at lunch time the score was 175 for two wickets. Thus at this time Surrey had an immense advantage, being within twenty-three of their opponents’ total with eight wickets in hand. But after lunch things were not so satisfactory. Lock­ wood only made five more runs, Hayward was bowled first ball by Charlesworth. who then bowled Hayes. This was the beginning of the end. A breakdown was averted by Brockwell and Holland, who put on fifty in pa tnership in less than half an hour, but the total fell short of what had been anticipated. Nevertheless Surrey had a lead of 93, which seemed likely to come in very useful, especially when, at the end of the day, Warwickshire had lost five wickets in scoring 115 runs, thus being only 22 runs on. Yester­ day morning the Warwickshire tail played up splendidly, despite the excellent bowling of Haywood, and in the end Surrey had to make 126to win. This did not seem avery formidable task, and when Abel and Mr. Jephson put on 44 before luncheon, everybody thought that the game was nearly over. But imme­ diately afterwards the turn of "Warwickshire came, and Surrey fell. W a r w ic k sh ir e . First innings. Devey, cCrawford, bBrock­ well ............................... 25 Kinneir, b Brockwell..........14 J. F. Byrne, b Brockwell ... 15 Quaife (W. G.)f c and b Hayward ........................ T. S. Fishwick, c Stedman, b Brockwell ................. 3 Lilley, lbw, b Lees ..........38 Charlesworth, st Stedman, b D ow son........................35 H. W . Bainbridge, b Brock­ well ............................... 20 Santall, b Lees ................. 3 Hargreave, b Lees .......... 1 Field, not out .................10 B 6, lb 2, nb 2 ... 10 Second innings. c and b Hayward 45 b Dowson ..........26 b Hayward.......... 0 24 b Hayward... b Hayward..........11 lbw, b Hayward.. 34 c Crawford, b Dowson .......... 0 c and b Hayward 26 c Crawford, b Hayward..........34 b Hayward.......... 0 notout ..........17 Extras..........23 Total.................198 Total S u rrey . First innings. D. L. A. Jephson, c Lilley, b Santall .............................................. 30 Abel, b Hargreave ................................ 41 Hayes, b Charlesworth...100 Lockwood, lbw, b Charles­ worth ... .............................................. 34 Hayward, b Charlesworth .. 0 ...218 Y.F. S. Crawford, c Quaife, b Hergreave ................. E. M. Dowson, c Lilley, b Charlesworth ................. 6 Holland, c Lilley, b Quaife 39 Brockwell, b Quaife ..........24 Lees, c Fishwick, b Charles­ worth ............................... 1 Stedman, not o u t................ 1 B 6, w 1 .......... 7 Second innings. cLilley,b Charles­ worth ..........29 b Hargreave ... 34 b Charlesworth... 7 c Charlesworth, b Hargreave ... 1 c Fishwick, b Charlesworth... 16 8 b Charlesworth... 1 c and bHargreave 0 lbw, b Charles­ worth .......... 0 c Lilley, b Har­ greave .......... 1 not out b Field... Extra Total.. ...291 Total W a r w ic k sh ir e . First innings. Second i O. M. R. W . O. M. Dow son......... 12 0 51 1 ... ... 18 5 Brockwell 39 11 79 5 ... ... 12 4 Lees................. 252 14 32 3 ... ... 3 0 Lockwood 1 0 1 0 ... ... 5 0 Hayward 11 2 25 1 ... ... 26*3 4 ... 19 ... 0 ... 1 ...109 33 2 38 0 18 o : 17 0 ‘ 8Q «» Dowson delivered three no-balls and a wide, and Lockwood and Hayward each a no-ball. Santall ... Charlesworth Hargreave Kinneir ... Field.......... Devey Quaife S u r r e y . First innings. O. M. R. W . 23 21 40 10 78 2 . .. 10 .. 4 .. 2 .. 1*: 0 ... 0 ... 0 , 8 2 ... Charlesworth bowled a wide. Second innings. O. M. R. W. !.’! 23 4 65 5 ... 22 8 34 4 !!! 0-4 01 1 8 0 8