James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1882

T H EC O U N T I E SIN 1 8 8 1. 6 5 advantage of a good eye to a batsman, and his three back-handed hits from Barrattfor four werea little distasteful to that bowler. Gloucestershire wonbyeight wickets . Gloucestershire , 261 and 84 (two wickets down) total , 345. Surrey , 130 and 214 ; total , 344 . (2) Gloucestershire v. Lancashire. Manchester, July 21 and 22, 1881. Amatch for the benefit of W m. McIntyre -a professional who trans- ferred his services from Nottinghamshire to Lancashire in 1872 , and did real service to the latter as a fast bowler. Both sides were well repre- sented , and the wicket was in splendid order , at least at the outset . Glou- cestershire was thought to have gained a decided advantage on winning the toss , but the bowling and fielding of Lancashire were so irresistible that the innings only lasted an hour and a quarter , and as Mr. W. G. Grace was the first batsman to leave at 19, out of a total of 42, 10 wickets went for 23 runs . Mr. Hornby, as a rule , relishes the Gloucestershire bowling , and he opened the Lancashire batting by scoring 61 of the first 77 runs . Barlow was in two hours and forty minutes for 45 runs , and not the least noticeable feature of the innings was the success of Nash, the last batsman, who must have been fairly astonished himself when he found 30 runs to his credit . Gloucestershire had to follow on in a minority of 194 runs , in a very bad light , on the first evening , and on the following morning thewicket was materially affected by the over -night's rain . The first five batsmen only got 33 runs , but Midwinter and Mr. Townsend put on 75 while together , and to them was chiefly due the total of 158. Lancashire wonbyan innings and 36 runs . Lancashire , 236. Gloucestershire , 42 and 158 ; total , 200. Watson(1st innings Gloucestershire ) Mr. Steel (1st innings Gloucestershire ) Overs. Maidens. Runs. Wickets. 1 9 . 2 1 9 1 5 7 8 5 4 4 5 (3) Gloucestershire v. Yorkshire, Sheffield , July 25, 26, and 27, 1881 . Yorkshire had not its best eleven , as , in addition to the absence of Hill , owing to an accident , Ulyett , a few days before , at Maidstone , had strained himself, and thus the Yorkshiremenlost both their best fast bowler and bat. Rain, just previous to and during the latter part of the match , made the wickets slow , and hence the scoring was not high on either side . The ground suited Midwinter's bowling , particularly in the first innings , and he wasnot only the most successful bowler but also the highest scorer on the Gloucestershire side . H. Lockwood , who had not been tried in the York- shire eleven , made his re-appearance in this match , and quite justified his reinstatement by his second innings of 31. E. Lockwood (30 and 23) and Grimshaw(22 not out and 16) alone got double figures for Yorkshire , and Midwinter (30 and 43) and Mr. Cranston (42 and 10 not out), for the other side . Gloucestershire won by five wickets . Gloucestershire , 150 and 88 (five wickets down) ; total , 238 . Midwinter(Gloucestershire ) Yorkshire , 116 and 121 ; total , 237. Overs. Maidens. 6 6 - 3 3 5 R u n s. Wickets, 7 1 1 1 D