Cricket 1902

294 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J uly 24, 1902. L ancashire . First innings. Second innings. 0 . M. R. W . O. M. R. W . 19 3 76 1 ......... . 13 0 45 1 27 1 81 5 ......... . 22 1 61 1 11 2 30 3 ........... 15 3 29 1 IS 7 55 1 ......... . 21 6 39 2 6 1 21 0 ........... 12 1 45 1 4 1 15 0 ......... 4 0 11 0 K ortright... 13 0 53 1 Buckenham Young M cGahey... Mead Reeves Tosetti ... Buckenham delivered two wides and Young and Tosetti one no-ball t ach. THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS WEEK. KENT v. SUSSEX. AN E X C I T I N G F I N I S H . Played at Tunbridge Wells on July 17, 18 and 19. Sussex won by one wicket. After their experiences at Fastings against Surrey, on the previous three days, the Sussex men must have found themselves wondering what had come over the game of cricket when, after disposing cf Kent for 155, they could only themselves just manage to hold their own with the bat. For although the weather was entirely in favour of perfect wickets, the Tunbridge "Wells ground had not benefited by it, and from the beginning of the match to its end batsmen had to struggle hard before they could make even double figures. A day or two before, 561 runs had been made for the loss of three wickets at Hastings; at Tunbridge Wells, on the first day, fifteen wickrts fell for 274 runs, every one of which had to be fought for. Only three men on the Kent side in the first innings escaped accident long enough to be able to make a good score. Mason played an admirable innings, but he would have gone the way of most of the rest of his team if he had not been missed before he had scored double figures. For a time it seemed that Fry and Vine were not going to te incon­ venienced by the bowlers, for they put up 44 runs in the first twenty minutes before Vine was out. But at 48 Fry’s career also came to an end, and Kidick was soon run out. Belf was twice missed in making his 5:7, but Banjitsinhji rose superior to all circumstances, and played a pretty innings of 30 not out, the total, when play ended, being 119 for five wickets. On the next morning, Banjitsinhji was thrown out by Blaker in trying for a risky run, and the innings came to such an abrupt conclusion that Sussex were 20 runs behind. Some remarkable bowl­ ing by Tate in the Kent second innings accounted to a great extent for the small score; he took six of the last seven wickets in 18 balls for 13 runs. Dillon was the only man who could hold out for any length of time against him and Cox ; he was at the wickets for an hour and forty minutes for his most useful 45. Sussex had now what would have been a very easy task if the wicket had not been so worn as to make rungettinga matter of the greatest difficulty. As it was things went badly with them, although for a time they seemed to be winning easily, sixty runs being up for the loss of only two wickets. Fry and Killick had both 1atted very well indeed. But then Banjitsinhji was caught in the slips for a duck’s egg, and the wickets began to tumble down before the bowling of Blythe. Meanwhile, Belf was playing admiratle cricket and seemed able to win the match for his side, when he also fell. As time went on, the game became most exciting, for a slight accident might give either side the victory. When stumps were drawn, the position was that Sussex, with two wickets in hand, had still to make 13 runs, but it was doubtful whether Bland would be able to bat, for he was in bed at the time suffering from a touch of sun­ stroke. On Saturday morning, however, he turned out, and went to the wickets after Butt had increased the score by four, nine runs being still required to win. But the last two men kept their wickets safe, and the match was won. K ent . First innings. Second innings. C. J. Burnup, c Newham, b B la n d .................................. 33 c Bracn, b Cox... 12 E. W . Dillon, b Tate ... ... 10 c Butt, b Tate ... 45 C. H . B. Marsham, c Tate, b Bland ........................... 4 b T a te................... 6 Seymour, c Butt, b Cox ... 5 b T ate................... 3 J. R. Mason, b T a te ........... 50 c Banjitsinhji, b T a te................... 11 Hearne (A.), c Ranjitsinhji, b Bland ........................... 4 c Relf, b Cox ... 2 R. N. R. Blaker, c Cox, b Bland ............................... 8 b T a te................... 0 Humphreys, b Vine ... ... 1 b T a te ................... 6 Huish, notout ... ... .. 23 b Tate ... 0 Blythe, c Banjitsinbji.bCox 2 c Brann, b Cox ... 7 W . M. Bradley,cbutt,bTate 2 not out................... 0 B 9, lb 3, nb 1 ........... 13 Bye ........... 1 First innings. C. B. Fry, st Huish,bBlythe 27 Vine, b Mason .................. 21 Killick, run out ................... 4 Relf, b Hearne ...................27 K . S. Ranjitsinhji, run out 40 W . Newham, b Hearne ... 2 G. Brann, c Huish,bHearne 2 Cox, not o u t.................. ... 2 Tate, c Brad ey, b Blythe . 0 Butt, c Hearne. b Blythe ... 0 Bland, absent, ill . ... ... 0 B 5, lb 4, nb 1 ...........10 Total B’and Tate... Cox ... Vine . ......... 135 K ent . First innir gs. O. M. R. W. ......... 29 10 63 4 ., ......... 23 5 10 35 3 .......... 18 9 ..........13 Second innings, c and b Blythe ... 24 b Blythe ........... 2 c S e y m o u r , b Bradley ...........30 c S e y m o u r , b Blytne ...........28 c S e y m o u r , b Blythe ... ... ht. wkt.,b Blythe c Puish, b Blythe b Mason ........... b Mason ........... not out.................. not out ........... B 5, lb 1 ........... Total (9 wkts) 114 Second innings. O. M. R. W. 20 2 ... 6 19 1 .. Belf . 21 26 8 45 12 27 1 20 0 1 land delivered a no-ball. S ussex . Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. K. W. Blythe ... .. 15 5 5 48 3 .......... 28*3 11 45 6 Bradley ... ... 3 0 VI 0 . ......... 7 5 6 1 Mason ... .. 10 2 24 1 .......... 14 5 *8 2 Hearne ... ... 12 6 16 3 ..........14 3 89 0 Humphreys ... 5 1 16 0 . Mason delivered a no-ball. Total ...165 Total... SURREY v . MIDDLESEX. Played at Lord’s on July 17, 18 and 19. Surrey won by ten wickets. It is very seldom that the Middlesex men do not give an excellent account of themselves in the matches against Surrey, but for once, after getting themselves out of an unpromising posit on ^ery well indeed, they fellaway in such a surpiising manner th*t they were t eaten with the utmost ease. But for the batting of G. W . Beldam in their first innings they would have been nowhere, but as he played what was perhaps the best game of his career and was given much assistance by W . B. Botertson and C. neadlam, the total of the innings was quite satis­ factory. But there were several periods during the innings when Middlesex seemed in a bad way. ihree tickets had fallen for 59 runs, and although Beldam and Rober son added another 102 for the fourth wicket, there were nine men out for 215. This on a good wicket was very unpromising. But when Beldam si ill required 17 runs to complete bis hundred he was joined by C. Ueadlam, who wasplayed for his wicket- Keeping, and the Surrey bowlers v ere poweiless for an hour and ten minutes, during which the total was increased by 1£0 runs. True to his usual methods Beldam made his runs slowly until towards the end of the game, when th^ advantage of makiDg runs being <f more importance than merely keeping up his wicket he hit out boldly. Naturally Headlam’s excellent batting caused great surprise to everybody on the ground. Beldam made the highest score of his caret r. and was at the wicket for fiu r hours and a-half, and he hardly made a bad stroke. It may be stated that Biockwell was kept on at one end for two hours a» d a quarter after lunch, including a great part of the time that tel dam and tieadlam were together. Suirey had balf-an-hour’s tatting before stumps weie drawn, and lost Abel in the last over of the day, with the total at 25. On the next morning Bayward played very fine cricket and was well backed up by Lockwood ; but six wickets were down for 165 when Dowson was joined by Hayes. This was the turning point of the game. Iu an hour the two batsmen by the most delightful cricket put on 93 runs, and ihings begun to look a little better. But eight wickets were aown for 276, and .'Surrey were still 69 runs behind, when Stedman helped B ayes considerably. 1 he latter had meanwhile been playing brilliant cricket, and during h 8 partnership with Stedman he scored 50 out of 70 runs; his total of 114, which included fifteen 4’s, was put together in two hours, 'i hanks largely to him Surrey had a lead of twelve runs. The Middlesex second innings was chiefly noticeable for Lockwood’s finetowling. The wicket suited him, and he knew just how to make the best use of it. No one could do anyihing against him, aid the whole side was out for €8, of which Trott and Bobertson made 89 in twenty minutes. Of course, this entir» ly unlooked for occur­ rence gave Surrey a very much easier task than they could h>ve had any reason to expect, and when they entered on the fourth innings of the match it was only to make 57 runs to win, M iddlesex . First innings. P. F. Warner, b Clode ... 9 Ahsan ul Hak, b Lockwood 17 G. W. Beldam, not out .. 155 B. J. T. Bosanquet, lbw, b Lockw ood.......................... 18 W . B. Robertson, c Hay­ ward, b B rcckw ell...........50 Trott, c Stedman, b Lock- wood 2 B. W . Nicholis, c Bush, b B rockw ell.......................... 0 R. O. Schwarz, lbw, b B rockw ell.........................17 J. B . Hunt, c Brockwell, b Bicbard*on.......................... 4 Hearne, b Richardson ... 1 C. Headlam, b Lichardson 38 B 21, lb 4, w 1, nb8 ...3 4 Second innings, c Stedman, b Lockwood ... 13 b Lockwood ... 1 c Hayward, b Lockwood ... 0 b Lockwood ... 0 c Dowson, b Lockwood ... 14 b Richardson ... 26 c Hayes, b Lock­ wood ... 0 c Bush, b Lock­ wood.................. 0 not o u t ................. 2 b Lockwood 0 b Richardson ... 4 B y e s................. 8 Total ...........(8 T o t a l ........................345 S ubbey . Abel, c Hunt, b Bosan­ quet ..........................12 Hayward, c Robert- s<n, b Trott ... 59 Capt. H. S. Bush, b H u n t.......... ... 14 Lockwood, c Hunt, b Hearne ......... 41 D. L. A. Jephson, c Hunt, b Tr j t t .......... 6 Brockwell, c Ahsan ul Hak, b Trott ...........12 Second in n in g s A b e l, not out, 26; Hayward, not out, 26; B 4, ib 1.—Total (no wkt) 57. E. M. Dowson, c Headlam, b Hunt .. 53 Hajes, lbw, b Trott...114 C o le, run out ........... 2 Stedman, not out ... 22 Richardson, b Hearne 3 B 13, lb 2, w 1 ... 16 Total .. 357 M iddlesex . First inuings. Second ionings. O. M . B. W. O. M. R. W. Lockwood .. 26 2 68 3 ... ... 12 4 2 25 8 Jephson ... . .. 9 2 42 0 ... Clode ... .. 1 3 2 43 1 ... Richardson ... 13*1 1 46 3 ... ... 3 1 2 2 Dowson ... ... 12 2 44 0 .. Brockwell ,.. 20 4 68 3 .. ... 9 0 83 0 Lockwood delivered six and Dowson and Bichardson one no-ball each, and clode bowled a wide. S urrey . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W . B u n t ................. 27 6 89 2 ............ 5 1 16 0 T r o tt.................. 41 11 115 4 ............ 4 1 13 0 Bosanquet..........11 1 48 1 ............ Hearne .......... 332 4 t9 2 ............ Schwarz ... 4 1 14 0 Warner 3 090 Bosanquet bowled a wide. N O T T S v. Y O R K S H IR E . P la yed at T ren t B rid g e on J u ly 17,18 and 19. D ra w n . Unless their I owleis can do betler against most of the ether counties than they have recently done against Sussex and Notts the Yorkshiremen will not le able to point to such a satisfactory season as last year—even if they can do so under any circumstances. They got Notts out on the first day of this match for a score which was not very large for a good wicket, but in the second innings they could make hardly any impression on them at all. Indeed throughout the match there was plenty of good batting oa both sides, but Rhodes was the only bowler who livtd up to his reputation. During the match 1080 runs were scored for tbe loss of twenty-two wickets, and there was never much probability that it would be brought to a conclusion. N otts . First innings. A . O. Jones, c Higgins, b Jackson ......... ... SI Iremonger,cHaigh,b Rhodes 3 Gunn ( W.), b Birst ........... 0 Shrewsbury, c Brown, b H a ig h ........... ...........66 J.A.Dixon,cBir8t,bRhodes 123 Gunn (J.), st Higgins, b Rhodes................. ... 0 W .B.Goodacre,c l unnicliffe, b Rhodes .......................... 43 Anthony, b Bhodes ...........11 Hallam, b H aigh................... 3 Oates, not out ..................13 Wass, c Taylor, b Haigh ... 28 B 3, lb 2, w 2 ........... 7 Total .................328 Second innings. c Jackson,b Hirst 16 n o t o u t ................. 128 b Haigh .............. 47 notout........... ... 52 B 7, lb 3, w 2 12 Total(2 wkts) 255