James Lilllywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1880

1 2 LILLYWHITE'SCRICKETERS' A N N U A L. B A T T I N GA V E R A G E S . I n n s. T i m e s n o to u t M o s tin R u n s a nI n n s. A v e r a g e Oscroft 1 3 1 2 5 4 6 2 2 1 - 2 B a t e s 1 4 2 2 2 9 4 9 19-1 L o c k w o o d 1 1 0 2 1 0 8 8 19.1 B a r n e s 1 3 0 2 3 1 5 9 1 7 - 1 0 Shrewsbury 1 4 2 2 0 9 6 6 1 7 - 5 D a f t .. 1 3: 1 2 0 7 0 3 7 1 7 - 3 Ulyett 1 3: 0 1 9 7 4 4 1 5 - 2 E m m e t t 1 3 1 1 7 1 3 5 14.3 Selby 1 2 0 1 2 2 4 4 1 0 - 2 P i n d e r .. 1 4 4 9 2 2 0 9 . 2 S h a w Morley 1 4 0 4 9 9 3 - 7 1 2 5 1 2 3 1 . 5 B O W L I N G A V E R A G E S . O v e r s M a i d e n s R u n s W i c k e t s A v e r a g e B a r n e s S h a w 1 2 5 1 5 6 2 . 3 5 4 4 2 8 7 4 2 6 1 7 8 2.70 E m m e t t Morley B a t e s 1 3 6 6 3 1 4 7 4 2 3-21 398-3 2 0 8 3 5 4 1 0 0 3.54 1 1 7 5 5 1 3 8 2 5 4 - 2 6 C H A P T E R 11. T H EF I F T HE N G L I S HT E A MI N A U S T R A L. B YL O R DH A R R I S. HAVING been asked by the editors of this annual to supply a short account of the late cricket tour of English gentlemen in Australia , I have great pleasure in complying with their request , in the hopes that the short account ,to which I propose confining myself , of our doings may interest lovers of cricket . As manycriticisms on the composition of our team were passed bycricket critics at thetime of our departure from England, it will , I think , be as well for m eto put uponpaper howit was that such a trip was first mooted. In the spring of 1878 Mr. I. D. Walker received a letter from Mr. Reid , Secretary of Melbourne Cricket Club , inviting a team of English gentlemen to visit the Australian Colonies and play a series of matches -the team , if possible , to be composed of twelve gentlemen , but, if that was impossible , at least of ten gentlemen and two professionals . The promises Mr. Walker received justified him in accept- ing the invitation , and at first there appeared to be little doubt that twelve gentlemen , all first -class cricketers , would be able to go. But, as the autumn approached , circumstances arose that compelled some to withdraw their pro- mises , until in September it almost looked as if the trip must be given up. Fortunately others were prepared to start at a moment's notice , and it was thought that , with two professionals , a good team could be sent ; but be it un- derstood from that moment we never professed to be a representative team . The aforesaid critics , no doubt , thought themselves good ones when they asked why Jones was not going , or asserted that Brown and Smith were better than some whowere ; but they can know very little of the management of first -class cricket if they suppose that every first -class gentleman cricketer in England was not