James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1879

56 Club Opponents. W119" W110“ lst 2nd lst ma opponents. Played' Played. Inn. Inn. I'll]. Inn. Brinh 1 Colle e ..‘Brighton!A11 l i 1219 — 107 — 1 Senserbsoetshiro g" lLord'fl‘ A159, 10 , Si, ”511”? wkts d Devonshire Park . Eastbrn A1lg 1-1, 10 , lGl — *li wkts (1 Essex 1. 114 — .*:5 wkts d 295 — fl} wktsd Eleventh Hussars . . 77 GO Anomalies 160, —- ,*G wkts d 12 Yorkshire [811 *88 *7 wkts d JIalc/Les Lo' : l Lost by. 1 England , 1151 *:£7J§ wickets 2 Cam. University 156,’ — 11nns 111115 runs »1 Lancasliire 81:79 runs 16 Australians ' wickets Chimvick Club wickets 11.1106 1111111 inns & 11} runs wickets ' wickets 1118 8!) 11 runs "ll 1) wickets 32 10 wickets Inns 6: 61 runs 11 wickets 7 runs Lord's ‘Jullc “ll, 25 Twekuhm Jnlly (i 1Uppnghm,July 10, 11 R. . E. Collegei. Cpr's HilljJuly 2.3 St. J. “food Rmblrs Lord's {August 5 11 Kent (1:4 11. side).. Canterbry August 7, 8 Cam. Long Vacation Cambrge lAug 12, ' 110110111 Est thmuiug 1.1, Hertfordsllixe J'mrd's lAug 1s, Lewes Priorv .Lewes Aug 19, ~ Lansdo1v11 0111 Aug 151, *nH d wickets *-l\vd St. J. VVuoll Rmblrs Aug 19, ' 85 Sidmouth Club .. 1dmoutli A111: 28, ' . 75, (1) M.C.C. and Ground 1). England. May 131 am! 11. Why this match is always played so early in the seaso11 it is dilficnlt to tell Amateurs are not, as a rule, partial to May cricket, and thougli the Clul) has many of the has} professionals of tlle day on its stafl of grouiid bowlers, fur batting it is dependent chiefly 011 its amateurs. Englmid was fairly re resented, but the only two really dangerous batsmeii 011 the side of the M. .C. were Messrs. “I. G. Grace and Hadow. Almost continuous rain eansetl the scoring to be very low, and it was a bowlers’ match throughout. Mr. W. G. Grace got 17 out of a first innings of 93 for the Club, but the rest could do little as Emmett’s bowling was dead on the sticks, and in eighteen overs he took five wickets at a cost of. only sixteen runs. Watson's analysis of 93 balls for 10 runs and 5 wickets in second innings of M.C.C. was still more strange, but the last stages were perhaps the most peculiar of the whole game. Both Mr. W. G. Grace and Mycraft were disabled, and when Englzind went in with only 37 runs to get, these two had to he represented by substitutes in the field. Daft and Ulyett made 20 of 37 Wanted witlioutloss of a wicket, but seven batsmen fell before the remainin seventeen were got, and England only W011 by three wickets. England, 115 1111 137 for seven wickets; total, 15-1. 31.0.0. and Grouiirl, 93 and 55; total, 151. (2) M.C.C. and Ground 71. Cambridge University. Cambridge, May 16 and 17. The Marylebqne team on this occasion was anythiiig but a credit to the Club and especially 111 batting, was utterly unwortliy of such an eleven as that of, Cambridge. Mr. A. G. steel was emphatically the hero of the match, as he played a very creditable innings of forty—two, not out, against the bowling of Shaw and Marley, and besides tuuk ten of the Marylebonc wickets. Sixteen was the highest score 011 the Side of the M.C.C., and it could hardly have becii a