James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1883

7 4 LILLYWHITE'SCRICKETERS' A N N U A L. (5) Gloucestershire v. Australians. Clifton , August 3, 4, and 5. Though represented by its best Eleven, Gloucestershire madea very poor showagainst the Australian team. Its batting , only excepting Mr. W.G. Grace's very fine score of 77, was very tame, and its bowling was even less successful . Horan, who should have caught at slip when he had made 70, carried out his bat for 141, and the Australians total ultimately reached 450. MacDonnell hit freely for 70, and the Gloucestershire bowling appeared to be so easy that nine of the team got double figures . The Australians won by an innings and 159 runs. Australians , 450 ; Gloucestershire , 108 and 183, total , 291 . (6) Gloucestershire v. Lancashire. Clifton , August 10, 11, and 12. Mr.A. G. Steel was absent fromthe Lancashire team, but otherwise the Elevens were representative . The ground was in favour of the batsmen, and hence some good scoring ; the lowest of the four innings being 196. Barlow opened Lancashire's first innings with Mr. Hornby, and carried out his bat for 50 out of a total of 240. Mr. C. Haigh madehis first appearance for Lancashire in this matchwithsuccess . H ehit with great freedom, andhis 80 was the highest score on the side . But for the brothers Grace, Gloucestershire wouldhave fared badly with the bat. W. G. made86 out of a first total of 196 , and in the second innings E. M. scored 122, the only hundred credited to a Gloucestershire batsman during the season . The latter's brilliant play nearly wonGloucestershire the match. A sit was they only lost by 13 runs . Lancashire , 240 and 217, total , 457 ; Gloucestershire , 196 and 248, total , 444. (7). Gloucestershire v. Middlesex. Cheltenham , August 14, 15, and 16. Thewicket played very queerly at times , and the scoring was by no means upto the average of these matches. BothCounties were well represented ; but Mr. C. T. Studd's bowling for Middlesex was more effective than any on the other side . Fine fielding , too, had muchto do with the success of the Middlesex team. Mr. W. G. Grace was caught at the wicket each time for only nine runs in the two innings , and, with the exception of Midwinter (44 and 24) and Mr. E. M. Grace (20 and 37), the batting was disappointing . Middlesex had 93 to win, and got themfor the loss of only two batsmen : they wonaccordingly by eight wickets . Middlesex, 228 and 94 (two wickets ) ; total 322. Gloucestershire , 144 and176; total , 320. C. T. Studd(Middlesex, slow round) O v e r s. M a i d e n s . 8 0 3 5 (8) Gloucestershire v. Yorkshire. Cheltenham , August 17, 18, and 19. R u n s. Wickets. 1 2 4 1 2 Gloucestershire's first win of the season , and a very creditable performance too. Losing the toss acted very prejudicially on the chances of the Yorkshiremen, as the wicket played very queerly , after the rain, on the second day. Their batting , though making allowance , was very tame. In the first innings the last four wickets only added four runs ; in the second , the last six were only accountablefor 2 8 runs. T h efeature of the m a t c hw a sM r . Pullen's7 1 for Gloucestershire ; he ought to have been stumped just before he got out, but otherwise his play was without a fault . For a youngster , then only 16 years and two months old, it was a great performance . Gloucestershire w o nbya n innings and 45 runs. Gloucestershire , 256. Yorkshire , 115 and 96 ; total , 211 . W o o f(Gloucestershire ,slow roundleft ) Overs. M a i d e n s. R u n s. Wickets. 4 4 2 1 6 6 6