Cricket 1906

276 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u l y 19, 1906. WARWICKSHIRE v. LANCASHIRE. Played at Edgbaston on July 12, 13 and 14 . Drawn. Owing to an injury which occurred to him in the match at Lord’s between the Gentlemen and the Players, Lilley was unable to appear for the home side, and his place was taken by Smith, who had kept wicket for the county on a few occasions previously. On the opening day play was delayed by rain until 2.20. Lancashire lost Heap at 5, Tyldesley at 35, Poidevin at 48, and Sharp at 56. Spooner played a skilful game, and made his thousandth run during the season. The feature of the day’s cricket was the partnership of Hornby and Findlay for the eighth wicket, the two adding 110 together in 80 minutes. The former made many powerful strokes, especially to the off. and scored 85 out of 178 in 135 minutes, reaching 53 out of 104 in 65. He might have been stumped when 61, but made no other mistake. He hit ten 4’s. Findlay carried out his bat for 70, made in 100 minutes by the finest cricket seen during the day. His off- dri ves were his chief scoring strokes. At the end of the day nine wickets had fallen for 269. No play was possible on Friday on account of rain, and the first thing on Saturday the innings was declared closed. The drenching the wicket had received, followed by a hot sun, made conditions favour the bowlers, but, notwithstanding, Warwickshire almost succeeded in reaching their opponents’ score. Kin- neir and Devey made 50 for the first wicket in 55 minutes, and the former and Charlesworth 62 for the second in an hour. The last-named played a capital game, and scored his 61 out of 90 in 70 minutes. Although at lunch-time the score was 152 for only three wickets, the innings closed for 254, Poidevin taking four wickets at a cost of 5 runs each. In their second innings Lancashire lost Outtell at 8, but Tyldesley and Heap remained together for the remaining 85 minutes, during which time they added 188 foi the second wicket without being separated. Tyldesley hit very hard indeed, and reached his 100 out of 142 after batting fir 75 minutes: altogether, he hiteighteen 4’s and made no mistake. With no chance of arriving at a definite result, some bowling experiments were made by the Warwickshire captain, the concluding stages of the match not being taken too seriously. Score and analysis L an cash ire . A. H. Hornby, c Smith, b Charlesworth ... 85 Cuttell, lbw, b Moor- house........................ 11 W . Findlay, not out... 70 Dean, b Santall......... 7 B 6, lb 7, w 1 ...14 Total (9 wkts)* 269 R. H. Spooner, b Moor- house........................32 Heap, b Hargreave-... 0 Tyldesley, lbw, b San­ tall ................. 15 L.O.S.Poidevin.cFish- wick. b Moorhouse.. 4 Sharp,cDevey, b Moor­ house........................ 4 Harry, c Ilargreave, b Santall .................27 Kermode did not bat. * Innings declared closed. Second innings: Heap, not out, 58; Tyldesley, not out, 125; Cuttell, lbw, b Hargreave, 3; B 9, lb 3 — Total (I wkt), 196. W arw icksh ire . Devoy, b Cuttell ... £8 Kin heir, c Spooner, b Heap........................36 Charlesworth, lbw, b Dean........................61 Quaifo, c Findlay, b Poidevin.................34 T.S. Fishwick, c and b Harry.......... ........ 29 Baker(C.S.),c Findlay, b Kermode .......... 8 J. F. Byrne, c and b Poidevin.................16 Santall, hit wkt, b Poidevin.................15 Moorhouse, c Hornby, b Poidevin .......... 7 Smith (E. J ), not out 3 Hargreave,b Kermode 2 B 11, lb 2, w 2 ... 15 Total .254 L ancashire . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Hargreave ...16 3 56 1 ............. 8 0 26 1 Moorhouse ... 22 6 54 4 .......... Santall ..........27.2 9 72 3 ............ 7 1 26 0 Charlosworth... 11 2 23 1 ............ 5 1 32 0 Quaife ............ 8 1 50 0 .......... Devey........... 4 0 26 0 Baker........... 7 1 34 0 Byrne........... 4 0 26 0 Fishwick ... 2 0 14 0 Charlesworth bowled one wide. W arw icksh ire . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Kermode. 10.1 3 712 Dean ... 20 6 50 1 Cuttell ... 17 11 28 1 Heap ... 6 2 22 1 Harry ... 20 9 48 1 Poidevin. 7 0 20 4 Kermode and Harry each bowled a wide. WORCESTERSHIRE v. SOMERSET. Played at Worcester on July 12, 13 and 14. H A T-TR IC K BY BRAUND. Drawn. The play on the opening day was noticeable for a very fine innings on the part of P. R. Johnson, who had never before done so well in an important match. Martyn helped him to score 86 for the first wicket in 85 minutes, E. S. M. Poyntz 43 for the second, and Hardy 125 for the fourth. Lewis was soon out, but Johnson, who reached 50 in 95 minutes, and 103 in 160, remained until the score had reached 260, when he was sent back for 163, made in three hours and 40 minutes. He hit twenty-one 4’s, and made his runs without a chance. His on-drives were very fine. At the end of the day Braund and Lee put on 62 runs together in 40 minutes without being separated after the fall of the eighth wicket, the score, when stumps were drawn, being 397 for eight. No play was possible on the second day owing to rain, and on Saturday the visitors declared their innings closed first thing. After the heavy rain of the previous day, it was felt that, with the sun shining brightly, the wicket would for a time be against run-getting, and the surmise proved correct Foster and Bowley, however, commenced well, 50 going up ere the first wicket fell. Half the side were out for 78, and then Braund dismissed Cuffe, Wheldon and Burrows with consecutive balls. Burns found such a useful part­ ner in Burrows that the last wicket put on 110 in 10 minutes, both men playing a very free game. It is worthy of mention that no change in the bowling was made between 27 and 200. Braund and Bailey being on all that time. The home side followed-on 157 behind, but a better stand was made than in the first innings, the wicket having improved considerably. Foster and Bowley made 53 for the first wicket in 35 minutes, and Burns, Pearson and Hutchines all made serviceable scores, with the result that when the match came to an end, Worcestershire were 112 runs on with two wickets still to fall. Robson, it will be seen, sent down 78balls for 12 runs and three wickets. During the day the home side scored 500 runs for the loss of eighteen wickets—a capital performance considering that for some time the conditions favoured the bowlers. Score and analysis:— S omerset . H. Martyn, c Foster, b Arnold .................34 P.R.Johnson, c Hutch­ ings, b Burrows ...163 E.S.M.Poyntz, c Gauk­ rodger,'b Arnold ... 10 Lewis, b Arnold ... 3 Hardy, c Gaukrodger, b Burrows ..........41 Braund, not out..........63 * Innings declared closed. Bailey did not bat. W orcestershire . First innings. Second innings. Bowley, c Braund, b Bailey 30 c H. S. Poyntz, b Bailey .......... H.K.Foster.ht wkt,bBraund 32 H. S.Poyntz, b Wilson 7 S. M.J. Woods, b Bur­ rows ........................11 Robson, c Wheldon, b Burrows................. 0 F. M. Lee, not out ... 20 B 21,1b 3,nb 1,w 2 27 Total (8 wkts)* 397 Pearson, b Bailey... W.E.C.Hutchings,cMartyn, b Bailey ........................ Arnold, c and b Braund ... Cuffe, b B raund................. W. B. Burns, b Lewis 0 2 6 9 78 Wheldon,stMartyn,bBraund 0 Rurrows. c Hardy, b Braund 1 Gaukrodger, c Braund, b Bailey............................... 8 Wilson (G. A.), not out ... 63 B 4, lb 7 .................11 c and b Lewis ... lbw, b Robson ... b Robson .......... b Robson ......... run out ......... not out................. c Braund ......... c Martyn, b John­ son ................. not out................. B 7,1b 1, nb 2... 10 Total ................210 Total (8wkts) 269 S omerset . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Arnold ... 37 9 97 3 IPearson 0 0 41 0 Wilson ... 23 1 111 1 |Burrows 10 1 75 4 Cuffe ... 20 10 46 0 | Cuffe bowled two wides and Burrows one no-ball. W orcestershire . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Lewis .......... 3.4 2 18 1 .......... 22 5 63 1 Braund .......... 20 6 114 5 ........... 28 2 117 1 Bailey .......... 24 6 84 4 ........... 10 4 17 1 Robson .......... 1 0 13 0 ........... 13 8 12 3 Woods................ 1 0 4 0 Johnson .......... 3 0 34 1 Hardy................. 2 0 12 0 Lewis bowled two no-balls. LEICESTERSHIRE v. HAMPSHIRE. Played at Leicester on July 12, 13 and 14. Drawn. On the first morning the weather was so dull, and the light so bad, that no play was possible until one o’clock. Both Greig and Bowell were missed in Jayes’ opening over, but the latter was out at 2, Llewellyn at 15, and Sprot at 23, three wickets thus falling in the first half-hour. Of the first 23 runs scored Greig made but one. With Mead he added 54 for the fourth wicket in an hour and, altogether, batted an hour and a-half for his 30. Bacon, whose innings lasted a precisely similar time, played a good game and, with Badcock, put on 40 for the eighth wicket in twenty minutes. The innings, after lasting 200 minutes, closed for 106, and, during the hour before stumps were drawn, the home side lost Wood and Whitehead for 52. On the following morning King and Challoner remained together until the third wicket had put on 61 in an hour. The former showed very good form, and hit nine 4’s in his 59, which took an hour and a-half to compile. The feature of the day’s play, however, was the innings of Knight, who cut and drove extremely well and, by the time play ceased for the day on account of rain, had made 90. He added 48 in half-an-hour with King, 40 in 25 minutes with Orawford, and 06 in 65 minutes, without being separated, with Coe. At the end of the day Leicestershire were 64 runs on and had half their wickets in hand. On Saturday, Coe reached 50 after batting for an hour and a-half, and, before he was sixth out, helped Knight to add 161 in an hour and three-quarters. The latter and De Trafford afterwards hit freely, and, when 73 had been put on in 35 minutes, the innings was declared closed at 308 for six. Knight, who carried out his bat for 180, hit twenty-three 4’s and made no mistake whatever. He reached three figures after batting for 125 minutes, and hit very hard indeed on the off­ side. In a minority of 202, Hampshire began fairly well, Bowell and Greig, in 35 minutes, putting up 52 for the first wicket. At that total, however, Greig and Llewellyn were sent back by successive balls from Wood, and 26later Sprot also fell to that bowler. In Mead, Bowell found a very useful partner, the two men adding 00 for the fourth wicket in 70 minutes. They made a great effort for their side, but, when the innings closed for 256, Hampshire were only 54 runs on. In an endeavour to obtain the runs against time, the Leicestershire men hit out at almost every ball, and lost three wickets without winning the match. Score and analysis:— H am pshire . First innings. Capt. J. G. Greig, c Shields, Whitehead, b 30 b King Bowell, ( Odell ............................... Llewellyn, c Crawford, b Jayes ............................... 8 E. M. Sprot, b Jayes.......... 8 Mead (C. P.), b Jayes..........20 Langford,c Shield's, b Jayes 11 F. II. Bacon, c and b Jayes 47 Stone, c Jayes, b C oe..........11 Second innings. Crawford, b Wood ..........28 1 stShiolds,b King 74 b Wood .......... 0 c King, b Wood 17 ’ ~ 57 22 17 Badcock, b King . Norbury, not ou t.. Shutt, b King B 12, lb 3 .. c King, b Jayes lbw, b King b Jayes .......... c Whitehead, b Odell................. b Jayes .......... c Whitehead, b Odell .......... not out. B 12, lb 5, w 1 18 Total......... 256 Total .................106 L eicestershire . First innings. Second innings. C. J. B. Wood, b Langford 1 Capt. Challoner, b Badcock 22 Whitehead, b Langford ... 1 c Stone, b Bad­ cock 2 King, run out ................ 59 Knight, not o u t .................180 notout........... 15 V. F. S. Crawford, b Llew- c Lltewellyn, b ellyn ...............................28 Langford ... 0 Coe, b Llewellyn.................59 not out........... 15 C. E. de Trafford, not out... 34 b Langford ... 2 B 7, lb 5, w 2 ..........14 Byes. . . . . . 4 Total (6 wkts) *398 Total (3 wkts) 38 * Innings declared closed. H am pshire . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W . O. M. R. W. Jayes ......... 34 9 88 5 ........... 34 8 99 3 Odell .......... 20 8 49 1 ...........184 8 37 2 Coe ................ 7 1 27 1 ........... 6 0 15 0 King ..........163 9 17 3 ........... 15 5 28 2 W ood .......... 10 3 39 3 Whitehead 4 0 20 0 Wood bowled a wide. L eicestershire . First innings. Second innings. O. M. R. W. O. 1C. Badcock ... .. 32 8 102 1 ... ... 6 1 Langford.. ... 33 4 111 2 ... ... 6 0 Shutt ... 15 2 58 0 Llewellyn ... 18 2 82 2 Mead ... 3 0 21 0 Greig ... 2 0 10 0 Badcock bowled two wides.