Cricket 1909

448 CR ICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. O c t . 28, 1909. CRICKET REFORM. Though it is certainly futile to do so we must enter one more protest against the bowling of trial balls by every man who is pat on. There are many points in which the batting and bowling statistics fail to give a complete record of the season’s play. If another column is to be added to those already published it might consist of figures showing the proportion of trial balls which each bowler finds necessary to enable him to get through the number of overs which he has sent down. Mr. Armstrong’s figures would be plethoric. The trick is a mere concession to a fashion, and serves no useful purpose whatsoever. Those who employ it most, or most abuse it, do not even employ their usual action slinging these trial balls. Mr. Arm ­ strong's arm is perceptibly lower than it is when he means business, and the contrast between Mr. Knox's run when he was con­ forming to an evil convention and when he wanted to give his side a good start was most marked. Presumably those who offend in this matter would say that they want to loosen their bowling muscles for fear of sending up a full toss or a long hop among their first few balls. It seems hardly credible that a man at the prime of life should be so stiff in his joints and muscles as to require more loosening than can be obtained by swinging his arm round a time or two. The trial b ill is a phenomenon which discloses the mental attitude of the first-class cric­ keter : he is doing his day’s work rather than enjoying his recreation ; consequently he does not aim at getting as much cricket into each hour as possible. The cause of this is undoubtedly the excessive number of first- class fixtures. There are other such devices which need to be checked. The batsman, for example, can delay the game by asking for “ guard ” unnecessarily. Frequently he does it to his own disadvantage. The only service which his “ guard ” rendeis to a batsman is that it enables him to know where the line from the umpire’s eye to the leg-stump cuts the batting crease. The umpire does not change his position whether the bowler is right-handed or left and whether he delivers the ball round or over the wicket. Therefore there is no need for the batsman to place his feet differently to meet different bowlers. If the frames used for marking the creases had three bays in the front corresponding to the three in the back where the stumps go in the umpire would be relieved entirely from the necessity of holding conversation with the batsman about one leg, two leg, and the like. The tea interval when properly regulated as it was in the later Test matches is not wa-te of time, as was proved over and over again this summer, so there remains only one other point in which improvement is required. The law as it stands allows only two minutes’ interval after the fall of each wicket, and straightly orders the umpires to rule the next batsman out if he is not ready to begin his innings when that interval has passed. The law was made for a simpler age, and is now out of date, when pavilions have grown into palaces and the various rooms are far apart. The next man in must be allowed time to prepare himself for his task, but when sufficient time has been given to him he ought to be punished for unpunctnality. The first umpire who refuses to let Mr. Fry, Mr. Jessop, or Hayward commence his innings on the ground that he ought to have been there earlier w ill do the game a service almost as great as that rendered by Phillip s and the other stalwarts who eliminated throw­ ing. We mention those three great batsmen honoris causd because if they were made victims of the umpire’s strictness the greatest disappointment would be caused to the assembled spectators, not because they habitually offend by d i’atoriness; the facts are the other way. — The M o rn in g Post. CRICKET IN INDIA. POONA G Y M K H A N A v. B O M B A Y G Y M K H A N A . Played at Poona on September 3 and 4 and left drawn. Score and analysis :— B om bay G y First innings. H. C. Richmond, c Arnold, b Southey .......................... E. G. Montgomery, c and b W o o d .................................. P. M. D. Sanderson, run out A. K. Tillard, c Southey, b Sloggett .......................... Tl. E. Elliott, b Wood C. G. Stileman, b Wood ... E. P. Cudlip, c Southey, b Sloggett ........................... R. Pigott, not out ........... F. Ware, c Lucas, b Wood R. Marrs, b Sloggett........... R. E. Eberhardie, b Sloggett Byes, &c....................... MKHANA. Second innings. 8 b Tillard .......... 0 notout... 15 b Wood G c Southey, b Wood 5 18 c Lucas,b Sloggett 28 15 b Arnold ......... 4G c Langhorne, b Sloggett......... 4 n otou t.......... 7 Byes, &c. Total Total (6 wkts)205 P oona G ym k h an a . Capt. Lucas, c Ware, b Eberhardic...........21 Major Wood, c Stile­ man, b M arrs...........10 Major Arnold, b Stile­ man ..........................23 A. Sloggett, c Tillard, b Stileman ........... 0 Capt. Langhorne, lbw, b Cudlip ................... 9 S. R. A r t h u r , b Tillard ...................14 Capt. Tillard, b Eber­ hardie .................. 65 Col. Fowler, c Sander­ son, b Tillard........... 0 J. A. Swinburne, b Eberhardie .......... 18 Major Southey, b Marrs .................. 3 C. Scaife, not out ... 0 Byes, &c.................. 3 Total ...........166 B om bay G ym k h ana . First innings. Second innings. Southey... Wood Sloggett... O. 13 , 7 11 M. R, W. 1 31 1 ... . 1 21 4 ... 2 19 4 ... , Tillard ... Swinburne Lucas ... Arnold ... O. 4 , 9 19 ! 2 , 2 6 M. R. W. 0 21 0 1 32 3 59 0 41 0 8 0 5 3 8 P oona G ym kh ana . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Marrs ... £ 1 28 2 1Eberhardie 14 4 26 3 Stilem an... 12 2 45 2 Tillard ... 12 4 20 2 Elliott ... 7 1 28 0 |Cudlip ... 3 0 16 1 P R E S ID E N C Y v. PARSIS. Played at Poona on September 6 and 7 and won by the Presidency by an innings and 71 runs. The Parsis won the toss and put their opponents in. For the Presidency Capt. Greig played a very sound innings and Cooper and Milne put on 69 for the ninth wicket. In the second innings of the Parsis Dinshaw, of Karachi, batted 70 minutes for 8 runs and Warden an hour for 3. Napier, the old Marl- burian, bowled unchanged throughout and took fourteen wickets for 45 runs. (See “ Gossip.”) Score and analysis :— P residency . Capt. J. G. Greig, c Chinoy, b Dinshaw 36 Capt. Heath, b Warden 0 G. N. Foster, c Driver, b Warden.................. 0 K. R. McCloughlin, lbw, b Watcha ... 8 H. L. Simms, c Ka­ padia, b Watcha ... 19 E. E. Christie, b Lala 15 W. F. O. Faviell, lbw, b Lala .................. 14 F. L. Sprott, lbw, b L a la ..........................10 K. Cooper, notout ... 55 J. S. Milne, cWarden, b M istry...................23 G. G. Napier, c War­ den, b Mistry ... 0 Byes, &c.............12 Total ..192 P arsis . First innings. F. Masani, c Heath, b Napier .......................... 3 M. Parakh,c Greig, b Napier 5 K. Lala, c Greig, b Napier 1 J. Warden, c Foster, b Napier .......................... N. Dinshaw, c Napier, b Simms ........................... D. Driver, b N ap ier........... R. P. Meherliomja, c Heath, b Napier ........................... D. K. Kapadia, b Napier... P. Chinoy,c Milne, b Napier M. Watcha, c Christie, b Napier ........................... K. B. Mistry, not out Byes, &c..................... Second innings. c Cooper, b Simms 12 c McCloughlin, b Napier ........... 0 run out ........... 4 12 b McCloughlin ... 3 Total b Simms ........... 8 c Heath, b Simms 13 c Faviell,b Napier 14 b Napier ........... 6 lbw, b Napier ... 2 not out .......... 0 st Sprott,bNapicr 1 Byes, &c. ... 21 Total ...........84 P residen cy . O. M. R. W. O. Mistry ... 12-8 6 26 2 1Dinshaw.. 4 Warden... 19 2 67 2 1 Lala ... 6 Watcha... 7 0 49 2 | P arsis . First innings. O. M. R. W. Napier .......... 14’5 9 17 9 .. Milne ... ... 8 2 13 0 .. Simms .......... 6 4 4 1 M. R. W. 0 8 0 1 30 3 Second innings. O. M. R. W. ... 22 11 28 5 18 7 31 3 McCloughlin . . 3 1 4 1 B O M B A Y G Y M K H A N A v. A H M E D - NAGAR. Played at Bombay on September 11 and 13 and won by Ahmednagar by 49 runs. Score and analysis:— A h m edn agar . First innings. W. F. O. Faviell, b Clarke... 2 J. Saraf, run ou t................... 55 A.C.Bird,cClarke,bChristie 24 K. E. Cooper, b Stileman... 22 V. E. Purcell, c and b Milne 12 R. G. Shuttleworth, stHurl- butt^t) C larke................... 3 B. C. S. Clarke, c Christie, b Clarke .......................... 10 Capt. Daniell, not out ... 35 H. L. Howell, b Milne ... 0 Short, c Hurlbutt, b Milne 12 A. F. Spreckley, c Clarke, b Milne .......................... 0 Byes, &c.......................17 Total ...................192 B ombay G y First innings. S. H. Powell, c Bird, b Daniell .......................... E. C. Reid, b C ooper........... E. E. Christie, c Shuttle- worth, b Purcell ........... F. J. Clarke, c Cooper, b Daniell .......................... Comdr. D. F. Vines, b Faviell................................. J. S. Milne, b Purcell........... G. C. Phillips, c and b Faviell . ........................... C. G. Stileman, b Cooper... Anderson, c Purcell, b Daniell ........................... L. F. Hearson, not out D. G. Hurlbutt, b Faviell... Byes, &c................... Second innings b Hurlbutt..........66 c Hearson,bMilne 27 b Stilem an.......... 32 c Reid, b Milne... 0 run out ........... 2 absent................... 0 b H urlbutt.......... 14 b Clarke .......... 16 c Phillips, b Hurl­ butt .................. 1 not out................... 4 b Hurlbutt... Byes, &c. 4 20 Total.......... 1S6 MKHANA. Second innings. 29 0 22 b Saraf... b Cooper not out... b Cooper b Purcell run out b Faviell ......... 2 b Purcell ......... 5 run out ......... 2 c Faviell, bSaraf 21 c Daniell, b Coop­ er ................. 4 Byes, &c. ... 4 55 37 4 0 6 Total ...................182 A h m ednagar . Total ...147 First innings. Milne Clarke ... Christie ... Phillips .. Stileman O. 24 17 3 M. R. W. 6 66 4 .. 6 47 3 .. 0 11 1 .. 0 16 0 .. 0 35 1 .. Powell Hurlbutt .. Second innings. O. M. K. W. 18 11 6 9 3 66 2 25 1 23 0 16 1 20 0 16 4 B om bay G ym k h ana . First innings. Second nnings. O: M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Cooper ... ... 17 2 52 2 ... ... 10 1 50 3 Purcell ... ... 18 5 58 2 ... ... 9 0 29 2 Faviell ... ... 11 0 45 3 ... ... 7 0 24 1 Daniell ... ... 7 1 24 3 ... ... 2 0 19 0 Saraf ... ... 6 1 21 2 Printed and Published by M e r r itt & H atch er , L td ., 167, 168 and 169, Upper Thames Street, London, B.C., October 2Sth, 1909.