James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1882

2 2 8 L I L L Y W H I T E ' SC R I C K E T E R S ' A N N U A L . L A W SO FC O U N T Y C R I C K E T . Thefollowing were established as the laws of county qualification , at a meeting held in the Surrey County Pavilion , KenningtonOval, on June 9 , 1 8 7 3. I. That no cricketer , whether amateur or professional , shall play for m o r ethan onecountyduringthe s a m eseason. II. Every cricketer born in one county and residing in another, shall be free to choose at the c o m m e n c e m e n tof each seasonfor whichof those counties he will play, and shall , during that season, play for that county only. III. A cricketer shall be qualified to play for any county in which he is residing , and has resided for the previous two years ; or a cricketer m a y elect to play for the county in which his family home is , so long as it remains open to him as an occasional residence . IV. That , should any question arise as to the residential qualification , the same should be left to the decision of the Committeeof the Marylebone C l u b. C H A P T E R V I. The Chief Scorers of 1881. THE fast wickets during a part of last season were all in favour of high scoring , and, as the following list will show, some remarkable feats were accomplished with the bat. The 12th of July was memorablefor an extra- ordinary innings of 415 not out, by Mr. W. N. Roe, of Cambridge, an old pupil of the Clergy Orphan School , Canterbury , and this beat Mr. Tylecote's performance at Clifton in 1868 , hitherto unsurpassed by 11 runs . O n the sameday Mr. W. F. Forbes , an old Etoncaptain , was credited with 331 , for Mr. A. E. Fellowes's Eleven v. Huntingdonshire . In addition to the register of English performances , we have appended several scores in other parts . O f these the most noteworthy is that of G. H. Bailey , one of Gregory's first Australian team, and it maybe added that his 227 (not out) is the highest record in Tasmania up to the present time.