Cricket 1902

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Odd scores are inserted at 2s. each if space permits. Scores must reach “ Cricket ” Offices, 168, Upper Thames Street, E.C., by first post on Tuesday following the match. City&SouthLondonRailway. TO THE OYAL From Angel, Islington, Moorgate 8treet, Bank, and London Bridge Stations. Travel by the Electric Railway— Trains every 3 or 4 minutes. THOMAS C. JENKIN. O ih k b a l M a n a q e b . Cricket: d WEEKLY RECORD OF TEE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LO ID O I, E.C. THURSDAY, JULY 10 th , 1902. ^ a V i i l t o n < § o 0 0 t p . The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. S ome of the criticisms which appeared after the recent test match on the play of the England eleven were most enter­ taining. With the exception of Maclaren and Jessop, who both happened to come off in the second innings, every man has by some critic or other been condemned as a useless encumbrance to the side. The failure of the team in the second innings to make a couple of hundred runs is described as disgraceful. The simple truth of the matter is that the wicket was fiery, and worse than it had been at any other period during the match, and that two of the most des­ tructive bowlers on fiery wickets were at work on it. • T h e luck was against England right through the match. The bad light on Thursday evening lost us three valuable wickets, although it is a mystery why the batsmen did not appeal against it before. The rain on the same afternoon made the wicket difficult for our men on the next morning, and improved during the afternoon, and kept the fire out of the ground while the Australians were batting. On Saturday when we had to make a big score, the wicket had become hard and fiery, and no team against fine bowlers could have distinguished itself. Nearly every man was dismissed by a ball which did some­ thing abnormal. To talk about the “ ignominious display of the Englishmen ” seems to us quite unfair. What England wants is a little luck. Maclaren needs sympathy, for he is the most unlucky captain in the world. W h e n the Australians were saved from defeat by the rain at Edgbaston, and again by the rain from a most unpromising position at Lord’s, there was a chorus of rejoicings that the matches were not played out, because, forsooth, the Aus­ tralians would have been at such a great disadvantage. We were told that we should have been ashamed if we had won under such circumstances. But we hear little now about the disadvantage at which England was placed at Sheffield, and nothing at all about the Australians being ashamed of their victory. If we had won under similar conditions, it would have been pointed out to us that we had nothing to boast of, and that it was a thousand pities that the match could not have been fought all though on even terms. There are pro-Australians of the original pro-Boer variety. W e do not for one moment mean to say that the Australians are not a strong team ; we have claimed that they are very strong indeed. But we think it is pitiful to decry everything done by our own team and belaud everything