James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1882

4 8 LILLYWHITE'S CRICKETERS' ANNUAL. (1) Middlesexv. Surrey. Lord's , M a y23, 24, 1881 . Neither County was represented by its best eleven , and very few of the twenty-twoplayers appeared to be in anything like practice . The weather was fine , and the attendance large on each day; but the batting of the Surrey eleven was feeble in the extreme , and the cricket throughout was very disappointing . Surrey played two colts -Richards and Wingfield- but neither showedan approach to county form, andthe former's fielding was as bad as it could possibly be. Burton , a slow round arm bowler, whohad been tried twice before , did considerable execution for Middlesex ; but on a fast wicket , both his bowling , as well as that of Mr. A. J. Ford, ought to have been very easy . The Surrey bowling at the close was so poor that the 45 runs wanted by Middlesex to win were got in 47 balls by Messrs. Robsonand Robertson. Middlesex were sadly in need of a wicket keeper in this match. Surrey were beaten by ten wickets . Middlesex , 192 and45 (no wicket down) ; total , 237. Surrey , 157 and 79 ; total , 236 . Burton(2nd inns . Surrey) Overs. 3 3 Maidens. 2 0 (2) Yorkshire v. Middlesex. Lord's , M a y26, 27, 1881. R u n s. Wickets. 2 0 5 TheYorkshiremennot only had all the best of the luck in going in first , whenthe wicket was easy, but Middlesex had also the disadvantage of batting in a very bad light , and the issue was never in doubt. The Middlesex team gave Emmetta life before he had scored , and as he was credited with 89, the mistake hadmuchto do with the result of the game. Peate , Hill and Bates , in a badlight , and with the ground to help them, found little difficulty in dismissing Middlesex twice for less than three figures ; and, indeed , the only batsman to make any stay was Mr. W. C. Wilkinson, who got 41 in the first innings with considerable luck. York- shire wonby an innings and nine runs . Yorkshire , 198. Middlesex, 91 and 98; total , 189. Hill (Yorkshire) Overs. Maidens. Runs. Wickets. 22-1 1 2 2 2 5 (3) Over Thirtyv. UnderThirty. Lord's , June 6, 7, 8, 1881 . F A R R A N D S ' B E N E F I T . Two fairly representative sides were collected for the Whit Monday match, set apart as a benefit for Farrands, for many years engaged on the ground at Lord's . Heavy rain on the Sunday made run-getting extremely difficult , and no big scores were reached on either side . Midwinter , who had just returned from Australia , played a good first innings of 37 not out for the juniors , and Messrs. Hornby(28 and 43) and W. G. Grace (29 and 28) were most conspicuous for the older