Cricket 1902

A u g . 21 , 19 02. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 357 with H ulm e put on 93 for the ninth wicket, eventually being out for 126, after batting for two hours and five m inutes. W arw ickshire had nothing to hope for but a draw, but they were not quite as successful as usual. Four wickets were dow n for 89, Q uaife, on whom so m uch depended, beiDg run out, and although several m en m ade useful scores, there was a deficit o f 342 runs to wipe off when the innings ended. Tw enty minutes rem ained for p’ ay, and the usual order o f batting was altered, with fatal results ; three m en were out for 13. The position was, there­ fore, very bad when play was resum ed on Saturday m orning, and as nobody except T. 8. Fishwick made a good score, the defeat was severe. D erbyshire . L . G. W right, c K in­ neir, b Charlesworth 65 C. A . Ollivierre, c Lilley, b Q uaife ...167 Btorer, b K inneir ... 0 £ . M . A shcroft, b M oorhouse ............40 N eedham ,b Hargreave 47 G . Curgenven, b C harlesw orth............33 A . E . Law ton, c M oor­ house, b K inneir . 126 H um phnes,b W hittle 0 W arren, b M oorhouse 29 H ulm e, not o u t ...........33 Bestwick, c K inneir, b Santall ..................... 2 B 15, lb 3, w 1 ... 19 Total ...561 W arwickshire . First innings. Second inning Devey, c Hum phries, b B est- c Hum phries, I w ick .............................. ... 30 W a r r e n ........... Kinneir, c Needham , b W arren ............................. 22 b W arren ............. J . F. Byrne, c Ollivierre, b W arren .............................18 Q uaife, run out ..................... 3 T . S. Fishwick, run out ... 39 Lilley, c Needham , b Storer 32 Charlesworth, c Law ton, b H u lm e................................... 21 Santall. b Bestwick .............. 0 not out............ c Humphries, W arren ... c and b Storer b Bestw ick .. . 0 .. 2 .. 12 b ... 10 W hittle, c and b W arren ... 5 M oorhouse, not out ............32 H argreave, b H ulm e ... . . 4 B 4, lb 4, w 1, nb 4 ...1 3 T otal ............................. 219 D erbyshire. O . M . R . W . Hargreave .. 39 7 153 1 M oorhouse.. 24 7 83 2 Quaife ... 24 2 87 1 Santall ... 11 1 40 1 b W arren ............ c Hum phries, t B estw ick........... lbw , b W arren . c Ashcroft, 1 W arren ........... b Bestw ick.......... N o-b a lls.......... Total 2 0 8 9 2 ... 92 O. M . R . W . Charlesw’h 19 4 103 2 K inneir .. 3 1 11 2 Byrne ... 4 1 14 0 W hittle ... 11 1 51 1 Quaife bow led a wide. W arw ickshire. First innings. Second innings. O. M . R. W . O. M . R . W . Bestwick ... ... 26 9 62 2 „.......... 16 6 35 3 Hulm e ... 15*3 6 24 2 .,.......... 5 0 9 0 S torer............ ... 18 2 48 1 . .......... 5 0 13 1 W arren ... 21 2 56 3 ........... 15 5 33 6 Curgenven... ... 1 1 0 0 .. >. ... Lawton ... 5 2 16 0 ., W arren bow led five no-balls and a wide, and Storer one no-ball. KENT y . SOMERSET. Played at Taunton on August 14, 15 and 16. Somerset won by two wickets. So heavy had been the rain at Taunton for tw o or three days that it was not possible to begin this match until a quarter-past three, when K ent, on a very soft wicket, were all out for 63, M ason alone m aking a good 8core. Som erset had m ade 45 for tw o wickets when stumps were drawn. On Friday m orning Palairet was in splendid form , but could get no one, except Phillips, to stay with him , and he survived until the last m an was in, when naturally trying to m ake as m any runs as possible, he was stum ped. 1 hanks chiefly to him , Somerset had a lead o f 123 on the first innings. This, a* it happened, was of very little use to them , for Burnup, w ho, when stum ps were drawn, was not out 99, was m issed when his score was five, and D illon, w ho scored 33, escaped three times. The first w icket accounted for 58 runs, and when D illon was out Somerset had no success for the rest o f the day. Burnup and Day, still unparted, had increased the total by 160 when the play ended, K ent haviog scored 218 fo r the loss of one wicket, and thus beingj)5 runs on. Burnup was not out 99, and D ay not out 75. Fortunately for Somerset, B um up was bowled with the first ball on Saturday m orning, while D ay and M ason were both stumped when ten m ore runs had been added. Burnup had batted for two hours and forty m inutes, and had played a beautiful innings. A m ost useful stand was m ade by A lec Hearne and R . N . R . Blaker, who put on 107 in just over an hour, but the rest of the team failed. Nevertheless Somer­ set had to make 234 to win. T w o wickets fell for 26, and then Palairet and Robson brought the score to 71. B ut at 91 Braund was caught at the wicket, and it was anybody’s gam e. Phillips and W oods helped Palairet considerably, and although K ent always seemed to have a possible chance o f winning, Somer­ set held out and gained a hardly-earned victory. Palairet played a w onderfully good innings and R ob­ son m ade runs at a critical time. K ent . First innings C* J. Burnup,cGill,b praund 0 E. W . D illon, c Braund, b Cranfield ............................. 0 S. H . Day, b B rau n d............ 8 Seymour, c W oods, b Cran­ field ...................................... 3 J. R . Masun, c Braund, b Crinfield ............................. 6 Hearne (A .), c New ton, b Robson .............................20 R . N . R . Blaker, c M artyn, b Robson ............................. 9 Huish, c Braund, b Robson 0 Hum phreys, c Lewis,b R ob­ son ...................................... 5 Blythe, not out ....................12 W . M . Bradley, c Gill, b Cranfleld ............................. 1 Byes \ ............................. 2 Second innings, b Braund ............99 b Cranfleld............33 st M artin,b.Cran- fie ld .....................80 c Palairet,b Cran­ fle ld ..................... 6 st M artyn,bCran- fle ld ..................... 0 b Braund ... 61 Total ... €6 S omerset . First innings. L . C. H . Palairet, st Huish, b M ason .............................89 Braund, c H uish, b M ason 16 H . M artyn, c Seymour, b M a so n ...................................... 8 F. A . Phillips, st Huish, b B lyth e......................................41 S. M . J. W oods, c Blythe, b Bradley .............................10 Lewis, c Seym our, b M ason 1 Gill, c and b Mason ............ 0 R obson, lbw , b M ason ... 1 O. M . Sam son, b Blythe ... 0 A . E. New ton, lbw ,b Blythe 0 Cranfield, n t out.................... 3 B 19, nb 1 .....................20 c Robson, b G ill 49 b G i l l ..................... 0 b G ill ..................... 5 c and b Braund... 9 not ou t.................... 0 B 5 ,lb 6 ,w l, nb2 14 T otal . ..356 Second innings, c Seymour, bBur- n u p .....................80 c H uish, b M ason 13 c H uish, b M ason 8 b Blythe ............27 c Dillon, b M ason 40 b M ason ............12 not out..................... 1 b Bradley ............38 b M ason *............ 0 not out..................... 3 B 11, w l ... 12 T otal............ ............189 T otal (8 w kts)234 K ent . First innings. Second innings. O. M . R . W . O . M . R .W . Cranfield............ 21*2 12 27 4 ... ... 38 9 115 4 B r a u n d ............15 7 29 2 .. ... 35 4 9 117 3 Robson ............ 6 3 8 4 ... ... 15 5 47 0 W oods ... ... 3 0 15 0 GUI . ... ... 14 4 39 3 Lewis . . . 2 0 8 0 P alairet... . . . 2 1 1 0 Gill bow led two no-balls and Lewis one wide. S omerset . First innings. Second innings. O. M . R . W . O. M . R . W . Blythe ............29 7 48 3 ... ... 22 5 64 1 Hearne ............14 5 30 0 . ... 6 1 18 0 Hum phreys ... 10 1 22 0 ... ... 6 2 11 0 M ason ............19 9 42 6 ... ... 27 11 71 5 B ra d le y ............ 8 3 27 1 ... ... 12 1 49 1 Burnup ... 2*2 1 9 1 M ason delivered a no-ball and Buxnup a wide. THE AUSTRALIANS. THE SECOND M.C.C. MATCH. THIRTIETH OF THE TOUR. Played at Lord’s on August 14, 15 and 16. Australians won by an innings and 34 runs. A s all the counties except Essex were engaged in the Championship com petition, the M .C.C. could only place a very weak team in the field—by far the weakest that has ever represented the M .C.C. against the Australians, although it m ight have held its own against one o f the not very strong counties. For all that, the team did not do at all badly on the whole except that, when things were going very well with it in the second innings, there was a break dow n. It was by no means an advantage to win the toss, fo r the ball jum ped about considerably on the first day, while on the second day when the Australians were batting there was not very much the m atter w ith the wicket, which was v lry m uch faster, than on the previous day. The only outstanding innings on the Thursday was the 60 m ade by Ranjitsinhji w ho, w ith­ out being in his best form , m ade some brilliant hits. Tram ble, H ow ell, and N oble were not able to keep him quiet, but like m ost m odern batsmen, his treat­ m ent of Arm strong’s leg-breaks left som ething to be desired. It was really quite curious that a m an with such a splendid eye as R anjitsinhji should be unable to tim e A rm strong; over and over again he wildly hit out at him and missed the ball, until at last he touched one with the edge of the bat, and was caught at short leg. Some o f his drives off the other bowlers were as good as they could be. H ow ell bowled very accurately nearly all through the innings. W hen stumps were drawn, the Australians had scored 80 for the loss of two wickets, Trum per, after m aking som e beautiful drives, being finely caught in the outfield, w hile D uff off the last ball o f the day had a go at one o f Steven­ son’s lobs. The cricket on the next day was chiefly remarkable for the fine gam e played by Clement H ill, N oble and Gregory. H ill was at the w ickets for about four hours, and hardly m ade a m istake. His treatment o f rising balls was one of the chief features of his long innings, while his off drives were, as usual, perfect o f their kind. A fter he had made his hundred he went in for som e big hits, and was out at last in an attem pt to drive Carpenter over the pavilion. H is partnership with N oble produced 105 runs in eighty m inutes, while with Gregory he helped to put on 142 in an hour and three-quarters. N oble’s innings was chiefly rem ark­ able for som e splendid drives. Gregory went in at a tim e w hen the bowlers had becom e tired, and they were a good deal m ore tired when he had done with them. A t the end o f the day the M .C.C. had scored 23 for the loss of Findlay, who was caught at short slip off a fu ll pitch to leg which he m istim ed. On Saturday m orning Carpenter and W . Smith, who were not out overnight, played H ow ell and N oble quite easily, and the score was taken to 91 before Smith was out for 23, for which he had been batting for an hour and a half. The partnership had pro­ duced 72. A double change in the bowling brought about a com plete alteration in the state o f the gam e. Trum ble at once began to make the ball kick pretty often, while Arm strong, as on the first day, puzzled the tatsm en very m uch. Indeed, the only m en who played him at all w ell were Carpenter and W . Smith. Carpenter was g o itg very strong for his hundred when he was bowled by a good ball from Armstrong for which he did not seem to be quite ready. A great deal depended on Ranjitsinhji, but after m aking ten runs he had a go at Trum ble and was easily caught in the lon g field. A t the end of the innings Ernest Smith played a great gam e. H e was not bothered m uch by Arm strong, w hom he occasionally hit pretty hard, but, on the other hand, he played him with his legs a great deal, or allowed the ball to pass by with­ out m aking any attem pt to hit it. It was a pity that he could get no one to stay with him until M e .d came in for the last w icket, and it was obvious that he only got out in trying to make his fifty while there was yet tim e, for he ended his innings by a w ild hit at Trum ble, not at all after his usual manner. M .C.C. and Ground. First innings. W . Findlay, b H ow ell Carpenter, b H ow ell ............ 1 H . B. Chinnery, c Trum ble, b H ow ell ............................. 37 Thom pson, c Trum ble, b H o w e ll.................................... 23 K . S. Ranjitsinhji, c D uff, b Arm strong .....................€0 A . P. Lucas (capt.), c D uff, b Arm strong .........................27 E .Sm ith.c H ill,bA rm strong 3 Sm ith (W .), c & b N oble ... 20 H . J. Stevenson, b H ow ell 12 Y oun g, c H ill, b H ow ell ... 14 M ead not out ...................... 0 B 3, lb 5 ...................... 8 Second innings, c Trum ble, b H ow ell ............ 4 b Arm strong ... 66 lbw, b A rm strong 2 lbw, b A rm strong 0 c D uff, b Trum ble 10 c K elly,bTrum ble 11 b T iu m b le ............48 st K elly, b Arm ­ strong ............21 c Noble, b A rm ­ strong ............ 3 b Arm strong ... 0 not out ... *... 4 B 6, lb 3, nb 3 12 T otal ...18 T otal ..............................212 A ustralians . W . W . Arm strong, run out ................... 12 A . J. Hopkins, lbw , b Thom pson ............27 H. Trum ble, b T hom ­ son .............................. 7 J. J. K elly, not out ... 1 W .P. Howell, c Y oung, b M e id ............ ... 3 B 11, lb 3, nb 3 ... 17 Y .Trum per, c E .Smith, b M ead .....................29 R . A . D uff, c Y oun g, b Steve nson ........... f 6 C. H ill, b Carpenter ...136 J. D arling, b Y oun g .. 3 M . A . N oble, c W. Sm ith, b T hom son.. 70 S. E . Gregory, lbw, b M e a d ............................. 86 T otal ............427 M .C .C . & Ground. First innings. Second innings. O. M . R . W . O. M . R . W . 15 6 31 0 ............. 17-3 4 51 3 40 11 105 6 ............. 19 8 41 1 27 10 53 3 ............. 21 4 44 6 3 4 0 15 1 ............. 16 6 33 0 T ru m b le... H ow ell ... Arm strong N oble ....... 3 4 u 10 ..... u oo Arm strong delivered tw o no-balls and N oble one. Australians, O. M . R . W . Mead Y oun g ... 28 Thom pson 11 E. Sm ith 15 1 67 0 Young delivered two no-balls and Mead one. j-2 10 90 3 4 80 1 1 43 O. M . R. W . Stevenson 17 2 78 1 RaDji. ... 5 1 24 0 8m ith (W .) 5 0 13 0 Carpenter 5 0 25 1