James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1882

T H EA V E R A G E SI N 1881. 2 4 3 but for the dispute which ended in his retirement from the Nottinghamshire Eleven. Lancashire had an extraordinary quartett of slow bowlers in Mr. A. G. Steel , Barlow, Nash, and Watson; it mattered little which went on first . Flowers showed such a decided improvement that it was hardly a surprise to find h i mestablishedin Shaw'sabsenceas the first bowlerofNotts. Yorkshire owed muchof its success to Peate and Bates , and the former was fairly entitled to be considered the best manof the year. Indeed , his figures , considering the matches in which he played and the amountof work he did, were wonderful . Crossland did not play for Lancashire till late , butbis pace told whenhe was tried , and his " yorkers " were very effective . Mr. Alfred Penn played little , though his slow left round-arm came off with great success against Sussex and Surrey ; and from the consistent wayin whichRylott has bowled for years , it is rather surprising that he has not been allowed a better chance in big matches. Mr. C. T. Studd and Mid- winter maintained their reputations , and Emmettrarely failed to come off whenhe waswanted. Several bowlers though, who were prominent in 1880, showed a falling off , among them Messrs . W. G. Grace, A. J. Ford, Green- field , O'Shaughnessy, Potter , Mr. Robertson, and Wootton. Jones re -appeared in the Surrey Eleven , considerably to the county's advantage , as will be seen , and if the season gave birth to no youngsters likely to rival Freeman or Alfred Shaw, it produced, at least , some new bowlers of fair promise in Mr. Evans, of Derbyshire , Attewell and E. Mills , of Notts, and Burton, of M i d d l e s e x . O V E R100 W I C K E T SD U R I N GS E A S O N . Overs. Maidens. R u n s. Wickets. A v e r a g e. 12-144 Peate(slowround, left)...... 1638-2 7 3 1 2 0 8 8 1 6 2 A V E R A G E S O FU N D E RT E NR U N SP E RW I C K E T . Crossland(fast round) Rylott(fast round, left) Overs. Maidens. Runs. Wickets. Average. 6 6 . 3 2 7 9 3 1 3 7 . 2 6 5 2 7 6 2 8 9 . 4 1 0 1 2 5 0 2 7 9.7 Penn, A. (slow round, left ) 168 3 0 9 - 2 A V E R A G E S O FU N D E R 15 R U N SP E RW I C K E T . O v e r s. M a i d e n s. R u n s. Wickets. Average. Barlow(m e d. round, left) 747-3 3 7 8 9 3 9 7 9 11.70 Evans, H. (fast round, left ) 107 4 4 1 8 9 1 6 11-13 E m m e t t(m e d. round,left ) 569.1 2 5 4 8 6 1 6 0 14-21 Flowers(slowround) 4 7 3 2 1 0 6 8 6 4 6 1 4 - 4 2 Hill(fast round)..... 3 3 7 - 2 1 5 4 4 3 5 4 3 1 0 . 5 Jones(m e d. round) 5 6 8 3 1 1 6 6 4 4 5 1 4 - 3 L a w, G. (fast round)......... 5 4 2 1 8 7 6 1 4 - 3 Mycroft, W. (fast round, left) 9 7 0 5 0 1 1 3 4 3 9 0 14-83 Nash(slow round, left ) 4 5 6 - 2 2 2 3 5 5 7 5 2 10-37 Patterson(med.round,left) 5 9 2 3 1 1 7 9 1 3 - 0 Steel , A. G. (slow round)... 1257 5 3 7 1 6 8 3 1 2 5 1 3 - 5 8 S h a w, A. (slow round) 911-1 5 0 1 9 9 9 7 2 13-63 W a t s o n(slowround)......... 879 5 1 2 8 1 5 6 9 1 1 - 5 3 A V E R A G E SO F O V E R15 R U N SP E RW I C K E T . O v e r s. M a i d e n s . R u n s. Wickets. Appleby, A. (fast left ) 9 5 . 1 4 6 1 4 6 9 Average. 16-2 Attewell(slowround) 3 9 0 1 7 0 6 4 1 3 5 18-11 Bettesworth, W . A. (slow round). 4 4 3 - 2 1 5 9 7 4 4 3 3 22-18