James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1875

I 82 promoters unfortunately, and prov.oked innocent threats, but we survived all te1To1·s and su:ffe1"eu no penalties after all. THE LAST MATCH v. TWENTY-TWO OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. • Adelaide, March 26, 4874. By this time our confidence had been c _ om­ pletely shattered in W. G. Grace It was a natural event that the Australians should win the toss and that we should have to go out. Human endurance has its limits and I tremble to t h ink of Mr. Grace's fate had we not exhausted our iour. South Australia, too, needs perfecting in the art of cricket. Eight wickets were down for 10 runs, and the � hole lot fol' 66. Oscroft andM'Intyre did the most for us, and Cole (the ancient monarch) did most of us. We made 108 in all, and won eventually by seven wickets. F. King was their highest score with 16. ENOL�ND. -Oreenwood, b Lungley • • • 15 Mr. F. H. Boult, c Warburton, b Cole • 8 Gilbert, c Staines, b King • • 12 Lillywhite, b Cole • . • • 14 Humphrey, e Staines, b Lnngley • 0 Mr. J. A. Bush, c Milla.rd, b Cole • 3 Jupp, b J,ungley • • • • 2 Southerton, not out • • • � Mr. W. G. Grace, o Crooks, b Lungley • 6 Byes 6, 1-b 1, w 4 • • 11 Oscroft, c Cope, b Cole • . . 20 :M'lntyre, 1-b-w-, b Cole • • • 19 Tota.I. . • • 109 In the second innings of the Eleven J'upp scored (b Cole). 6; Gilbert {b Lungley), 5; Green· -wood (not out), 6; Humphrey (c and b I,ungley), 9; Oscroft (not out), 12-total, 88. The Twenty-two scored 68 and 82. , • ENGLISH BOWJ,ING ANAI,YSIS. Maiden Balls. Overs. Run�. Wkts. Southerton • • 24 12 24 1:3 W. G. Grace • • 26 6 56 R F.H.Boult • • 26 16 14 7 I,iJlywhite • • 24 12 88 8 • At a quarter past four o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, 1\Iarch 28th, we left Adelaide by train for Glen e lg, and soon after five ,ve ,ver e safely on bo&.i'd th0 Nubia, homeward bound,. All F o ols' day saw us at King Geoige's Sound after a splendid passage; the sea calm and placid as a mirror. A sen'Sation of a man overboard was t h e only incident worthy of record, until we reached Galle, after as fin e a passage of thirteen days as the worst sailor could have desired. Here we changed from our old friend into the Khedive, but little time was given us for reflection, as fifty-six houi-s found us ag a in on the sea. From this point everythingwent smoothly. ,v e 1·a11 aground t,vice in M. Lesseps' canal, but v.•ithout further damage than a goocl shakiniz. One day at Alexandria to see th e races, to combine ·with the Overland l\Iail from Bombay, and to be off for Malta with Messrs. Boult and (Tilbert (who hacl gone to Bombay in the Nubia), once more of the EleYeu, �Ir. Bnsh having "·isely chosen the route via San Francisco. A brief stoppage at l\Ialta, a still b 1 ·i e fer at Gibraltar, we1"e the last events befoI·e we rc�r1.cl1etl S011thamp to11 after an absence of over seven months; all of us glu.tl to set foot safelv a�nin on the shores of Old England. Appropriate quotation from the skipper, "England, ·with all thy faults ,ve love thee still." I faney