James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1876

95 Surrey v. Yorkshire. Sheffield, June 14, 15 and 16. Surrey, as was the ease in all its out matches, had a very inefficient eleven, but it none the less made a good light. Jnpp was the hero o f the one side, and Andrew Greenwood o f the other -t lio former contributing 60 out of 138 and 30 out of 1*21, the latter 61 in the first and 40 (not out) out of 75 in the second innings. Otherwise there was no very brilliant display with the bat, though Swann (22) played well in the first innings o f Surrey, and Ulyett (29) and Thewlis (25) in that of Yorkshire. The finish gave promise of some excite­ ment,‘as Yorkshire had only 75 runs to win, and half the wickets were down for 29 Indeed, had the slightest accident occurred to Greenwood the fate o f Yorkshire would have trembled in the balance, though, as it was, the county won by four wickets. Yorkshire, 185 and 75 (6 wickets) ; 260. Surrey, 138 and 121. Overs Maidens Runs W ickets Southerton (S u r r e y ) .................................... 102 53 113 9 Ulyett (2nd Innings o f Surrey) .............. 32*2 14 40 7 (2) Surrey V. Sussex. Oval,August 5, 6 and 7. Both counties were well represented, and the match was exciting through­ out. Sussex won the toss and made 114 runs with only one wicket down. The first three batsmen all did tlieir share, as Mr. Cotterill scored 72, Mr. Greenfield 36, and James Phillips 21, or 129 in all. Yet the score only came to 169, eight batsmen together making only 37 runs, oddly enough, w ithout a cipher amongst them. Surrey began as unfavourably, as L illy white bowled its best batsman, Jupp, without a run. The rest, though, made full atonement, as eight made double figures, Richard Humphrey 43, and Mr. Read 40, the most successful. Surrey had 72 runs in hand on the first innings, and as Sussex on ly scored 158 runs in its second venture a victory for the former seemed probable enough. Rain, however, upset all calculations, and the wicket played so badly for Surrey that eight wickets fell for 54 runs, and when the game ended 2 wickets were left with 32 runs still wanting to win. Lilly- white's bowling in the second innings o f Surrey did the m ischief : Overs Maidens Runs Wickets 31 23 22 5 The match was drawn. Surrey, 211 and 54 (8 wickets) ; total, 295. Sussex, 169 and 158 ; total 327. (3) Surrey t>. Sussex (return). Brighton, August 12, 13 and 14. Surrey missed Mr. Strachan, its captain, badly, and the more so as vSussex had its full strength. A free hitting innings o f (54 by Mr. Chandler, with m inor sums, enabled Surrey to open with a respectable score of 180. The Surrey bow ling, however, was altogether off the spot, and the fielding the reverse o f close. Hence Sussex scored heavily, Humphreys (52), Charlwood, Fillery (each 51), and Mr. W inslow (50) all contributing largely. Sussex had 108 runs to the good on the first innings, but even then it seamed certain that Surrey would save a defeat with anything like a fair show in its second venture. The Eleven, though, fell to pieces altogether at the close,