James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annnual 1881

6 8 LILLYWHITE'SC R I C K E T E R S' A N N U A L, (4) Derbyshire v. Yorkshire. Derby, August 2, 3, 1880 . Heavyrain just previous to the commencement of the match caused the wicket to play very queerly , and Yorkshire had the best of the luck in winning the toss . The Derbyshire eleven did well to get rid of their opponents for 109 (14 extras ) ; but they made a miserable display with the bat, and Bates and Peate rattled themout in the course of twenty-six overs and three balls for twenty -six runs . Yorkshire were only left with twenty- three to win, but this number cost them three wickets , and with a little more luck Derbyshire would have made a good fight of it . Platts , in the first innings of Yorkshire , took three wickets with successive balls , and in the same over . Yorkshire w o nby seven wickets . Yorkshire , 109 and 23 (three wickets down) ; total , 132. Derbyshire , 26 and 103 ; total , 129 . Peate(Yorkshire) Platts (1st innings , Yorkshire) Bates (1st innings , Derby) Overs. Maidens. R u n s. Wickets. 5 3 2 1 2 8 1 1 1 3 - 3 6 6 3 2 6 1 5 1 1 5 5 (5) Derbyshire . Lancashire. Derby, August 9, 10, 1880. This time there was little or no complaint to be madeabout either groundor weather, but still it was throughout a bowlers' match. Robinson (18 and 42) was the one batsman on the Lancashire side able to offer any serious resistance to the bowling of Mycroft, Platts , and Hay, and the two innings only realised 212 runs . Derbyshire were only fourteen behind on the first hands, but in the second attempt no one but Mr. Barrington (24), appeared equal to the task of playing Watsonand Nash, and Lancashire at the end had a telling majority of 65 runs . Lancashire , 89 and 123 ; total , 212. Derbyshire , 75 and 72 ; total , 147. Mycroft (1st innings , Lancashire ) Watson(1st innings, Derbyshire ) Nash(2ndinnings ,Derbyshire).. Overs. Maidens. R u n s. Wickets. 3 1 1 8 2 8 2 8 - 1 1 4 2 7 28-1 1 2 4 1 (6) Derbyshirev. Yorkshire. Huddersfield , August 19, 20, 1880. 6 7 6 Bates , owing to illness , was unab e to help Yorkshire in this match, but his services were not required as it happened . Ulyett (56) and Emmett (54) contributed more than one-half of the total madeby Yorkshire , and the two last batsmen , Grimshaw and Peate , put on 54 runs , the latter's 27, not out , rather a surprise , Mr. Cursham (40) and Platts (32) might have