James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1882

T H E COUNTIESIN 1881. 6 3 H .E v a n s H a y E.A. J. M a y n a r d W .Mycroft Platts B O W L I N G A V E R A G E S . O v e r s. Maidens. R u n s. Wickets. Average. 107-0 4 4 1 8 9 1 6 11-13 129.1 3 7 2 6 8 1 0 2 6 . 8 1 7 . 0 4 5 3 2 2 6 . 1 5 4 2 - 2 2 7 5 7 7 1 4 4 1 7 - 2 3 3 6 9 - 2 1 5 4 5 2 1 2 5 2 0 - 2 1 Mr. L. Dockerbowled 11 overs for 24 runs ; Foster , 10overs and3 balls for 24 runs, and Shaw11 overs for 33 runs, neither taking a wicket . The following bowled in one innings only :- S. H. Evershed , 4 overs , 0 maidens , 12 runs , 0 wickets ; Jackson , 13 overs , 2 maidens , 45 runs , 0 wickets ; Osborne , 9 overs , 1 maiden, 23 runs, 1 wicket ; Porter, 25 overs , 7 maidens, 59runs, 1wicket ; G. Topham, 23 overs , 8 maidens , 49 runs , 1wicket , 1 no ball ; G. C. Walker , 3 overs , O maidens , 14 runs, Owickets . H a ybowled 5 wides and Foster 1 wide. G L O U C E S T E R S H I R E . OFFICERS FOR 1881.-President , Duke of Beaufort , K.G. Vice-President , Lora Fitzhardinge . Treasurer , W. H. Harford. Captain , W. G. Grace. Secretary , E. M. Grace. Committee , Earl Bathurst , H. W. Leloe , J. A. Bush, S. H. Brookes , Sir W m. V. Guise, Bart., HenryGrace, William Henry Miles , R. Fenton Miles , T. G. Matthews, Rev. C. H. Ridding, F. Townsend, Rev. T. A. Southwood, S. Lane, J. A. Ware, Capt. J. S. Warren, A. P. Wetherman, E. J. Pagden, Major A. H. Versturme. Theprogrammeissued by the Gloucestershire Club, as a rule , shows little variation , but on this occasion the committee, with a highly praise- worthy spirit of encouraging a young and enterprising neighbour , added to their list two engagements with Somersetshire -a County whose officers , to their credit it must be said , have never lost the smallest opportunity of bringing it prominently to the front as one of the leading cricket shires . In all twelve matches were played by the Gloucestershire Eleven, and of the ten with County teams of older date four were won, an equal numberwere drawn, and two lost . The summarywas hardly as satisfactory as that at theend of the previous season , as of the four draws two were by no means in their favour. It was hardly to be expected that the County,losing as it hadthe services of such a brilliant all -round player as Mr. G. F. Grace, wouldbe quite as successful , but it is certain that the play of the Eleven in m a n yrespects disappointed the hopes formed at the commencementof the season . Mainly through a big but by no means faultless score of 182 by Mr. W. G. Grace at Nottingham, Gloucestershire was able to claim the distinction of the highest innings of the County season . Still , the run- getting, onthe whole, wasmuchbelowthe average of someprevious years , andin somecases , particularly in the matches with Lancashire at Man- chester , and Notts at Clifton , the batting showed a surprising collapse , though the ground in the latter case was accountable for anyshortcomings .