James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1876

70 1>\''hire was loss successful asW. McIntyre was in deadly form with the ball, and Mr. R. P. Smith and Frost (86), were chief contributors to an aggregateof 129. A surplus of 53 runs on the first innings augured well for Lancashire, but Mycroft and Hickton bowled so accurately that the second venture was a comparative failure, Mr. Hornby (19), and Mr. Ilillkirk (18), the only double figures and the total only 68. Derbyshire had 122 runs to get to win, but the end came when six wickets had fallen for 77 runs, and the match was thus left drawn, at an interesting phase. Derbyshire, 129 and 77 (six wickets); total, 206. Lancashire, 1S2 and 68; total, 250. Overs. Maidens. Runs. Wickets. Mycroft (Derby) ........... 61*1 28 90 11 (3) Derbyshire V- Kent. Derby, June 21 and 22. Kent had not its best eleven, though stronger than hitherto in its out matche s, while Derbyshire was well represented. Kent had the first use of the bat and a bad commencement the}’ made with three wickets down, including that of Lord Harris, for nine runs. Mr. Frank Penn, however, got them fairly out of an awkward dilemma with a splendid not out score of 79, and mainly by his aid was reached the respectable aggregate of 131. The weakness of Kentish bowling was strikingly manifest when they took the field. Seven of the Derbyshire eleven, including even Mycroft, who carried out his hat for 18, got double figures, Mr. Curgenven, a fine free innings of 71, and Platts, as lively a contributor of 60. Kent was faced by a deficit of 176 runs on the first innings, and they utterly failed to settle the difference, their second venture only realising 113. of which 51 were due to Lord Harris. Derbyshire won by an innings and 63 runs. Derbyshire, 307. Kent, 131 and 113; total, 214. Hay's bowling in the second innings of Kent was noteworthy. Overs. Maidens. Runs. Wickets. 14 7 17 5 (four bowled) (0 Derbyshire v. Lancashire (return). Derby, July 5 and 6. In this match Derbyshire displayed a general weakness in marked contrast to its previous performances. Mycroft bowled well as will be seen hereafter, hut the one wicket of Lancashire, captured by the other four bowlers of Derbyshire, actually cost 156 runs. Lancashire had not Mr. Hornby, and was certainly not strong, but none the less the eleven played havoc with the Derbyshire howling. W. McIntyre w^as in the novel position of head scorer with 66, and Mr. Dewburst second with 59, out of an aggregate of 240. Derbyshire made a small first innings of 121, of winch 25 were due to Platts, but the second was a discreditable affair, as Mr. R. P. Smith (13), and Rigb y (30),—the two first wickets—realised 43, the other nine batxmen outif 11 runs. It was more of a benefit for Watson, the slow bowler of Lancashire, than for any other individual, as he scored 58 runs and obtained four wickets in the second innings of Lancashire, at a cost of only 12 rims.