Cricket 1902

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G en ib a i. M jlh ageb. The Editor regrets that the preseure of scores during the summer only allows him to guaranteeinsertionof scoresof clubsarranging for publication of all their matches. A charge of Is. a match, with a minimum of 21s., is made for the insertion of scores. 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. C r i c k e t : A WEEKLY RECOED OF TEE 6 AM I . 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, L0 ID 0 I, E.C. THURSDAY, AUG. 7 th , 1902. $a\uiton T he abstract and brief chronicle of the tim e.— Hamlet. B y putting on 428 for the sixth wicket for the Australians v. Sussex, Noble and Armstrong have made a new record—for the sixth wicket—the previous best for this wicket being 411 by Major Poore and Captain Wynyard for Hampshire v. Somerset at Taunton in 1899. The record for any wicket is 554 by Brown and Tunnicliffe for Yorkshire v. Derbyshire, at Chesterfield in 1898. Abel and Hay­ ward in 1899 made 448 for the fourth wicket for Surrey v. Yorkshire at the Oval. T he enormous difference that a big innings or two against tired bowlers may make to the position of a batsman in the list of averages has seldom been better exemplified than in the case of Ranjit­ sinhji this season. On Monday last he had an average of 49‘38, and was third on the list with a total of 1,017. Take away his two innings of 230 and 234 not out, and he has an aggregate of S53 and an average of just over 27, which would barely give him a place among the first fifty batsmen. I t is very disappointing that Fry and Ranjitsinhji, the two men who, at the beginning of the season, would have been regarded as the most likely of all batsmen to score largely against the Australians, should have both so com­ pletely failed against them. Fry has played in six matches against the Austra­ lians with tbe following result, 31, 36 and 21, 0, 0, 1 and 4, 39 and 11; total 143, average nearly 16. Ranjitsinbji has played in five matches; his record is 67and 26, 13, 0, 2 and 4, 19; total 131, average nearly 19. Of course everybody knows that this sort of thing is not at all their 1rue form, but if the Australian bowlers think that they are the absolute masters of the two famous Sussex men who can be suiprised ? T he following very curious query reaches me from a correspondent in Denmark, where cricket is in its infancy : “ A bowler howls and theball strikesmidd- on; the hall is going in the wicket and the batsman is not out of his ground, How’s that? Is the batsman out? If so, whyfore ? If not is it the umpires duty to call no ball ?” As far as I can gather from this the bowler does not seem to have been quite as accurate as Trumble in his pitch, and the ball after striking mid-on travels to Ihe wicket and knocks off the bails, the batsman naturally being taken some­ what by surprise. The “ Decisions and Interpretations ” authorised by the M.O.C. do not seem to deal with this case, which is not surpris­ ing, since it would hardly have entered into the calculations of the law makers or interpreters. The question is what would an umpire be supposed to do ? He could call wide, but after all the ball is certainly not out of the batsman’s reach, and the batsman fails to play it. A lthough it is only natural that in the hurry of modern newspaper printing the spelling of the names of cricketers should sometimes be faulty, I should doubt whether anything more effective in this way has been seen than the “ Bhshan ul Haq ” of an evening con­ temporary as an attempt to render the name of the new Middlesex recruit. But the “ Messrs. Newhaven and Braun, the Sussex amateurs ” of a provincial news­ paper runs it pretty close. I n one of this week’s Sunday papers the title of the combined Glamorganshire and Wilts team which was to oppose the Australians was announced as “ Glamor­ gan and Wales.” A c u r io u s accident, which was fortunately not as serious as it might have been, occurrred a short time ago to Mr. Tom Rider. He was in the scoring box during a Brixton Wanderers’ match, when a batsman drove a ball very hard into it, with the result that it was brought to rest by Mr. Rider’s forehead.