James Lillywhiite's Cricketers' Annual 1874

6 0 B A T T I N GA V E R A G E S . Total Times Total Mostin Mostin InningsN o tOut R u n s a nI n n. M a t c h A v e r a g e H i c k t o n 2 1 2 6 *2 1 2 6 2 6 W .G. Curgenven .. 4 0 6 1 3 9 • 4 9 1 5 4 T .F o s t e r 2 0 2 3 1 7 2 3 1 1 4 R . P. S m i t h 4 0 4 1 2 0 2 9 1 0 4 1 S. Richardson 4 0 3 6 2 5 2 5 9 Wrigley 2 0 1 7 1 3 1 7 8 4 Flint 2 0 1 5 1 1 1 5 7 ? W .J. H u m b l e 2 0 1 3 1 1 1 3 6 1 P l a t t s 4 0 2 4 1 0 1 5 U . Sowter 2 0 8 6 8 W .Jervis 2 0 6 6 6 2 6 4 3 B u r n h a m 2 0 4 4 4 2 Myecroft 4 1 S m i t h D a v i d s o n 2 2 0 2 2 3 2 2 5 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 1 1 9 1 3. B O W L I N GA V E R A G E S . Balls Maidens Runs Wickets Wides R u n spse W i c k e t Wrigley 2 4 0 1 0 2 0 5 Myecroft (fast round left ) 360 4 2 1 0 8 1 0 0 1 0 5 Platts 1 4 8 9 6 6 4 0 1 6 4 D a v i d s o n 1 5 2 2 3 6 3 3 0 2 1 Flint (slow round) 6 4 5 2 8 1 0 2 8 S. Richardson 5 6 2 4 3 1 0 4 3 Hickton (fast round) 9 6 4 4 8 1 0 4 8 G L O U C E S T E R S H I R E . OFFICERS FOR 1873 :-President , His Grace the Duke of Beaufort , K.G. Vice-- President , Right Hon. Lord Fitzhardinge . Treasurer , William Henry Harford . Captain , W. G. Grace . Committee , Allen A. Bathurst , M.P. , J. C. Bengough, J. Arthur Bush, Col. Bush, S. H. Brookes , Rev. C. R. Davy, Rev. Joseph Greene, Sir W m. V. Guise, HenryGrace, William Henry Miles , R. Fenton Miles ,T. G. Matthews, Rev. C. H. Ridding , F. Townsend. Secretary , E. M. Grace, Thornbury , Gloucestershire . GLOUCESTERSHIRE played six matches, four of which were wonand two drawn, both of which latter , making reasonable calculations , would have resulted in muchthe samemanner and not unhappily for Gloucestershire . In the pre- vious year a stroke of ill luck caused them to be defeated by Surrey w h e nthe gamewas in their own hands, so that for two years , but for one piece of rough usage , the Western County would have been absolutely undefeated . Indeed it is open to grave doubt whether Gloucestershire would not have been champion of the year had not an absurd misunderstanding caused the abandonmentof the two matches fixed with Nottinghamshire . As it was, on"public form" Gloucestershire could more than have held its own; for, indeed, the eleven that represented it was better than ever . "TheGraces ," you know all about them of course , and the extraordinary habit of each