Cricket 1904

6 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J an . 28, 1904. other wickets on which they had played in Australia. The home team, finding things going in their favour, worked splendidly in the field, and as the bowlers were never once mastered, they were eean at their btst. On the Monday Arnold and Lilley played such good cricket that the deficit was not as large as at one time seemed probable. Still the Australians were 143 to the good when they began their second innings, and as b y the end of the day they had added 263 to this for the loss of four wickets their prospects of victory were exceedingly good. In this innings H ill and Duff did not distinguish themselves, but Trumper and Noble were again to the fore, while, a g o cd deal to the surprise of many people, Gregory played one of the best innings of his career. Trumper was batting for an hour and a quarter for his 59, G rejory two hours for his 112 , and Noble two hours and twenty minutes for his 52 not out. Gregory treated all the bow ling alike, and was always perfectly comfortable. As the Australians were now 406 runs on with six wickets still in hand, it was quite on the cards that in the fourth innings of the match the Englishmen m ight have to go in to make nearly six hundred runs, but as things turned out their task was not quite as difficult as that. For afterNoble a td Armstrong had made a useful stand, Bosacquet upset all calculations by getting the last four wickets with startling quickness, and only 88 runs were put on. This left the visitors with 495 runs to make. They made a splendid and stubborn beginning with Warner and Hayward, who kept together until a few minutes before time when Hayward was lbw . for a very careful and scientific innings of 67, made in tw o hours and three-quarters. Total 148. Arnold was sent in to play out time, but was at once bow led by a fast ball by Hopkins. Then the position which had seemed so satisfactory only a minute or two before was suddenly changed to one causing anxiety, for with two wickets down for 150, there still remained 345 runs to be made. Warner covered him­ self with glory b y scoiing 79 not out, without a serious mistake of any kind. Even with eight wickets in hand it was a big task to have to score 345 runs, but it was not by any means considered im ­ possible. Unhappily, on the fifth morn­ in g Warner was brilliantly caught and bow led b y Trumble after ten runs had been made by Tyldesley, Warner himself not having increased his overnight tota l; his entire innings lasted a little over three hours. There were now only seven wickets left, and before another run had been made they were reduced to six, for after nearly dropping the ball, Noble brought off a fine catch which disposed of Tyldesley. There was now very little hope of success for England. Braund and Foster were both missed, but their escape availed them little, and the Australian bowlers went steadily on to victory. Hirst again played an excellent innings. A ustralia . First innings. Second innings. V. Trumper, b H irst..... 113 1b w,b Rhodes... 69 R. A. Duff, b Hirst ..........79 c Braund, b Hirst 14 C. Hill, c Lilley, b Arnold ..88 b Fielder ..........16 M. A. Noble, st Lilley, b c Bosanquet, b Arnold...............................59 Braund........... 65 8. E. Gregory, c Tyldcsley, c Fielder, b b Arnold ........................ 8 Braund ..........112 A. J. Hopkins, bBosauquet 0 runout .......... 7 W. W . Armstrong, lb w ,b c Hirst b Bosan- Rhodes ........................10 q u e t..................39 H. Trumble, b Bosanquet... 4 c & b Bosanquet 9 C. McLeod, run out .......... 8 b Bosanquet ... 2 J. J. Kelly, 1 b w, b Bosan- st. Lilley, b quet ............................... 1 Bosanquet ... 13 W. P. Howell, not out .. 3 notout ........... 1 Extras ........................15 Extras............14 Total........................3S8 Total ...351 E ngland . First innings. Second innings. Hayward, b Howell ...... 20 lbw, b Hopkina... 67 P. F. Warner, c McLeod, b Trumble ................ ... 48 c and b Trumble 79 Tyldesley, c Kelly, b Hop-.......c Noble, b Hop­ kins ................................ 0 kins...............10 R. E. Noster, c Howell, b N ob le.................................. 21 b M cLeod..........16 Braund, c Duff, b Hopkins 13 b Howell ..........25 Hirst,c Trumper, bTrnmble 58 b TrumHe.......... 44 B. J. T. Bosaoquet, c Duff, c Trumper, b b Hopkina...........................10 H opkins........... 10 Rhodes, c Armstrong, b McLeod ......................... 9 run ou t............. 8 Arnold, not out ....................23 b Hopkins.......... 1 Lilley, run out ....................28c and b Howell... 0 Fielder, b Trumble ....... 6 not ou t............. 14 Extras................. i.. 9 Extras ............. 4 Total ... .« .. 245 Total .............. 278 A ustralia . First inniDgs Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. Fielder ... ... 7 0 33 0 .. ... 24 11 51 1 Arnold ... . . 27 3 93 3 .. ... 19 3 74 0 Rhodes ... . . 14 3 45 1 . ... 21 4 46 1 Bosanquet ... 301 4 95 3 .. ... 16 0 78 4 Braund ... .. 13 1 49 0 .. ... 21 (5 57 2 Hirst ... ... 14 1 58 2 .. ... 13 1 36 I Arnold and Birst each bowled a wi£e, Rhodes tw° wides, and Fielder two wides and a no-ball. E ngland . First innings. Sccond innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. McLeod . 24 6 56 1 ... . . 25 4 4(5 1 Trumble . 28 9 49 3 ... . . 33 8 73 2 Howell ... . . 13 4 28 1 ... . . 20 5 62 2 Hopkins . 24 5 (8 3 ... . . 28*1 9 81 4 Armstrong . . 10 3 25 0 .. . . 7 2 16 0 Noble ... . 3 0 10 1 ... . Trumper . . 4 0 7 0 Noble and Trumper each bowled one wide, and HopkinB and Trumble two wid s. THE FIRST MATCH AGAINST TASMANIA. ( thirteenth of the tour .) Played at Hobart on January 25 and 26. Drawn. Tired by their long sea voyage the English­ men did not appear to advantage in their first innings, and by the end of the day the Tasmanians had much the best of the game ; having scored 116 for four wickets against 185 by the M.C.C. Rain came on in the afternoon, and stopped the game. On the next morning the Tasmanian tail did very little, and the result was a very small lead. In their second innings the M.C.C. did exceedingly well, Warner, Tyldesley and Bosanquet especially. Bosanquet hit finely, and his innings included four 5’s. There was never much chance of finishing the game which was confined to two days, but Warner declared and gave the Tasmanians an oppor­ tunity of batting again. M.C.C. P.F.Warner, c Cuff b, Smith 26 c Paton, b Smith 64 R. E. Foster, c Cuff, b Smith 43 b Windsor.......23 Tyldesley, b Eady ........... 4st Dodds,bWind- sor ...............85 Arnold, c Cuff, b Smith ... 4 b Windsor......... 8 Knight, c Smith, b Windsor 19 notout..............45 B. J. T. Bosanquet, b Eady 35 not out............ 124 Lilley, c Cuff, b Windsor ... 11 Relf, run ou t......................24 Bhodes, not out .................. 6 Fielder, c Eady, b Windsor 1 Strudwick, b Eady ........... 1 Extras....................... 11 Extras............ 5 Total ...............185 Total (4wkts)*354 T asmania . Cuff, c Tyldesley, b Relf ... 9 Hawson, c Arnold, b Bosan­ quet ..............................29 notout............ 37 Douglas, c Foster, b Arnold 38 Dodds, c Rhodes, b Arnold. 24 notout.................1 Windsor, c Arnold,bRhodes 2 Eady, b Rhodes ................16 Burn, not o u t.....................28 c Strudwick, b Foster ...........24 Hale, b Arnold ................. 9 Smith, c Relf, b Arnold .. 13 Paton, run out ................18 Bailey, b Fielder................. 3 Extras........................ 2 Total .................191 Total (1 wkt) 63 M.C.C. R. W. R. Windsor .. ... 68 .. 3 .......... ... 96 Eady .......... ... 40 ... 3 .......... ... 8J Smith .......... ... 42 ... 3 .......... ... 97 Paton .......... ... 25 Bailey .......... ... 13 Hale .......... ... S8 T asmania . R. W. R. Arnold......... ... 41 ... 4 .......... Rhodes......... ... 62 ... 2 .......... Bosanquet... ... f 5 ... 1 .......... Fielder.......... ... 18 ... 1 .......... Relf .......... ... 20 ... 1 .......... Foster ........ 34 Warner......... ... 1« K night......... ... 9 Lilley ......... ... 4 R . E . F O S T E R ’S IN N IN G S O F 287. The follow ing comments are taken from a letter by F. A. Iredale in the Daily M a il : No one who saw the earlier part of Foster’s great innings would have given him 50 runs. He appeared so tied up with the howling that no one would have heen a hit surprised had he been clean bowled any over hy any of the opposing bowlers. I don’t think I ever saw so large an innings start so hadly. In fact, all the first day he was hatting he never really seemed comfortable. You could hardly imagine a man playing for over two hours, and yet show at the end of that time the same amount of hesitancy in his strokes as he did at the first. Yet such was the case, and it was made more apparent by the free and graceful play of his partner Braund. In much of his forward play he nearly over-reached himself. Many of his mannerisms, particu­ larly in his desperate attempts to kill the flies which would persist in annoying him, were a source of much amusement to the spectators. All this, however, occurred on the first day of his hatting. On the Monday the whole character of his batting changed. From the mere unit, as it were, he suddenly became the master, and until the end of his innings he showed us what a really great hat he is. No hesitancy this time. On all sides of the wicket he hit, and hit hard, too, and towards the end he flogged the howling mercilessly. To show to what a high pitch of brilliancy he rose I may say he carried the people with him. No greater proof of greatness is there than this. If one could only bury out of memory that awful 73 on the Saturday, one would be inclined to think that Foster’s 287 was not merely the record, but the very best innings ever played in test matches.