Cricket 1904

J an . 28, 1904. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 5 had to go in to make 297 to win, their task was simply hopeless. Tyldesley increased his overnight total b y 14; altogether he was at the wiekets for an hour and eighteen minutes, by which it will be seen that he scored whenever there was the slightest opportunity. 1 'he Australians began to hit at the beginning o f their innings, and at first things did not go so badly with them. Trumper, again aided by luck in the field, played another fine innings, and H ill and Noble played splendid cricket under almost overwhelming difficulties, for they had to contend with Rhodes at his very best on his own wicket, and everybody knows what that means. Noble played, as usual, a strictly defer sire game, but after Hill went he could get no one to stay with him, and Rhodes had a veritable triumph. The number of catches missed by both sides—particularly by the Englishmen—was appalling. Trumble bowled uncommonly w elliu both innings, but there was no bowler on the Austra­ lian side who could compete with Rhodes. The loss of the services of R . E. Foster after the first day might have been very serious to England if the rain had not come in such an opportune way. Early in the match Noble strained himself, and could only bow l a few overs, a disaster to his side which can hardly be over­ estimated. E ngland . First innings. P. F. Warner, c Duff, b Trumble Hayward, c Gregory, b Hopkins ........................ Tyldesley, e Trumble, b Howell.............................. R. E. Foster, retired ill] ... Braund, c Howell, b Trum­ ble....................................... Knight, b Howell .......... Hirst, c Noble, b Howell ... Rhodes, lbw, b Trumble ... Lilley, c Howell, b Trumble Relf, not o u t....................... Fielder, b Howell................ Extras........................ Total Second innings, Tiumper, b Saunders.......... Trumper, b Trumble......... 5 Trumble, b Howell .......... 49 absent . !0 b Saunders.......... 3 2 lbw, b Trumble 0 7 c Gregory, b Howell .......... 4 2 lbw, b Trumble 9 4 st Kelly, b Trum­ ble ................. 0 3 not ou t............... 10 1 c Hill, b Trumble 4 4 Extras .......... 8 ..............315 A ustralia , First innings. V. Trumper, c Tyldesley, b Rhodes............................... 74 R. A. Duff, st Lilley, b Rhodes........ .......... ... 10 C. Hill, c Rhodes, b Hirst 5 M. A. Noble,c sub, b Rhodes 0 S. E. Gregory, c Hirst, b Rhodes............................... 1 A. J. Hopkins, c sub., b Relf ............................... 18 H. Trumble, c sub., b Rhodes ........................ 2 W. W. Armstrong, c Braund b Rhodes ........................ 1 J- J. Kelly, run ont .......... 8 W . P. Howell, c Fielder, b Rhode 3 ........................ 0 J- V. Saunders, not out ... 2 E x tra ........................ 1 Total.. Total .........103 Second innings. cRelf, b Rhodes 35 c Braund, b Rhodes .......... 8 c Relf, b bhodes 20 not out ..........31 c Rhodes, b Hirst 0 c and b Rhodes .. 7 c Braund, b Rhodes .......... 0 c Hayward, b Rhodes .......... 0 c Lilley, b Rhodes 7 c Hirst, b Rhodes 3 c Fielder, b Hirst 0 Trumble ... Noble......... Saunders ... Howell ... Armstrong Hopkins ... Trumper ... Rhodes Hirst... Relf ... Braund ..........122 Total ... ...111 E ngland . 0 . M. R. W . O. M. R. W. 50 10 107 4 ... ... 10-5 2 34 5 6 3 6 0 ... 16 3 60 0 ... 8 0 33 2 34 5 14 43 4 ... ... 8 3 25 2 25 6 43 0 20 2 60 1 ... ... 2 1 3 0 1 0 2 0 A ustralia . O. M. R. W. O, M. R. W. 15*2 3 56 7 ... ... 15 0 68 8 8 1 33 1 ... ... 13-4 4 38 2 2 0 12 1 ... ... 1 0 5 0 5 0 20 0 THE BALLARAT MATCH (XVIII). ( eleventh of the tour .) Played at Ballarat on January 8 and 9. Drawn. It had been arranged that the M.C.C. should play twelve in this match, hut as R. E. Foster, Bosanquet, Arnold and Tyldes­ ley stood down it was necessary to secure the services of two Englishmen dwelling in the locality. These were Messrs. Drummond (an old Harrovian) and Whitfield. The most noticeable point about the match was the fine innings played by Knight who had hitherto hardly done himself justice during the tour; he was only at the wickets for about two hours and a half. Lilley, Braund and Rhodes also played well, but there was nothing very remarkable about the batting of the team as a whole. At the close of play the Eighteen had made 46 without the loss of a wicket, C. Baker being not out 26 and Watson not out IS. On the next day Baker played admirable cricket, but Braund was in such form with the ball that no one else coull make many runs. The Englishmen went in again with the certainty that the game would be drawn. Knight played another good inDings and Strudwick, Rhodes and Braund made good scores, and when the game was drawn the Englishmen were more than 300 runs on. M.C.C. Fir<*t innings. Hayward, b Stevens........ Braund, b Mitchell ... ., Knight, c and b Hennah . Lilley, b T. Baker ... . Whitfield, b Hele.............. Drummond, b T. Baker .. Hirst, c Bray, b Hele.........22 Relf, c and b Hele Rhodes, not o u t .............. P. F. Warner, b Hennah Strudwick, b Hennah Fielder, b Hennah ... Extras................. T eam . Second inniogs. . 12 lbw, b Stevens ... 0 . 37 c Champion, b Bailey ..........37 .109 c Hore, b Cock- burn.................47 . 59b M itchell..........12’ ,. 3c and b Stevens .. 0 . 0 c B a ile y , b Hennah .......... 0 Champion, b Stevens ..........20 ,. 10b Stevens .......... 8 . 43b Stevens ..........36 , 2 b H ele................. 8 b Stevens ..........42 not out................. 2 Fxtras.......... 6 .. 2 .. 4 .. 23 Total ............... 326 Total ..........2 E ighteen of C. Baker, c & b Braund 61 Watson, b Fielder Mailer, e Hirst, b Braund ................. Hore, b Brauud.......... Bray, run out .......... Champion, cWhitfield, b Braund ................. Lodge, lbw, b Braund Kennedy, b Rhodes ... Trethowan, b Uraund Bailey, run o u t .......... Hennah, c Strudwick, b Braund................. B allarat . Steven8,c Drummond, b Braund................. Mitchell,stStrudwick, b Braund................. Dillon, c Whitfield, b Warner ................. Hele, b Braund . ... Cockburn, not out ... T. Baker, b Relf Morgan, absent, hurt 0 Extras ........... 5 T otal.........197 Stevens Mitchell Hennah Hele .. T. Biker Hirst Fielder Rhodes ‘ M.C.C. T eam . Firfet innings. R. W. 63 .......... 1 ................ 48 .......... 1 ................ 46 .......... 4 ................ 18 .......... 3 .............. 34 .......... 2 Bailey... . Cockburn Second innings. R. W . 55 .......... 6 38 .......... 1 30 ............ 1 38 ............ 1 17 5 E ighteen of B a llabat . 21 .......... 0 IRelf.......... 34 . 27 .......... 1 Warner... 4 .19 ......... 1 Braund ... 87 TH E TH IRD TEST MATCH . ( t w e l f t h o f t h e t o u r .) Played at Adelaide on Jan. 15, 16, 18, 19, and 20. Australia won b y 216 runs. In this match for the first time during their tour the Englishmen had to play on a wicket that from first to last was typically Australian; that is to say, it was very much faster than any to which they had been accustomed. Hitherto at some time or other du iiog each game the rain had more or less affected the wicket, and in no case was the pace faster than that of a good wicket in England. But in this match rain had no part at all, and it must be confessed that the play of our men was a little disippointing. Hardly any of them were able to adapt them­ selves to the pace of the wicket, while the bow ling which had been so form id­ able was found to be ineffective. The Australians undoubtedly had a consider­ able pull by winning the toss, for it is alwajs a fine thing to have first innings on a fast wicket, but throughout the ma'ch the Englishmen were out­ played, and undoubtedly the better side was victorious. On the first day the Austra’ians made 355 runs for the loss of six wickets, so that not only did they make excellent use of their time, but were in a commanding position when stumps were drawn. The first hundred was reached after playing for an hour and eight minutes, but it was not until tb e total was 129 that the first wicket fell. Duff being dismissed by the last ball before lunch for a brilliant 79, which had been put together in eighty-eight minutes. After lunch H ill and Trumper soon gained such a complete command over the bow ling, that during their partnership of a hundi ed minutes they increased the total by 143 runs. Trumper was then dismissed just before the tea interval for a superb innings of 113, His play was not quite as aggressive as usual, but it was p erfect; he was at the wickets for three hours and nine minutes. Total 272 for two wickets. Things looked in a bad way for the Englishmen at this period of the game, but better times were in store for them. A t 296 H ill was caught at the wicket. His fine innings was chiefly remarkable for hard drives, and he was batting two hours and five minutes for his 88 . From this time the bowlers met with such success that when stumps were drawn three more wickets had fallen, while the total had only been increased by 59. Noble, who had batted in his usual careful style, was not out 38, and it seemed possible that England would have to face a total of about 500. But on the next morning the remaining wickets fell very quickly, although Noble managed to increase his score by 21 , so that after all the Englishmen had to face what was quite a moderate total for such a splendid wicket. Their rate of scoring was so much slower than that of their opponents that when stumps were drawn on the Saturday they had only managed to make 199 runs. They had m oiejver lost no fewer than eight wickets in doing this. Except that Warner played a very fine and patient innings, and that Hirst was in his very best form and seemed to find the pace of the wicket at once, the batting of the team can only be regarded as disappointing. Only a very few men succeeded in gauging the pace o f the wicket, which was much faster than the