James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1883

9 6 L I L L Y W H I T E ' SC R I C K E T E R S ' A N N U A L . T H Erecord of Sussex cricket in 1882 was certainly not encouraging of itself . Outof ten matches , only two were won, and one of them , that with Derbyshire , at Brighton , by only three runs . W h e nin full strength , the County had agood batting side ; but its bowling showed little , if any, signs of improvement . Juniper at the outset seemed likely to be of use ; but he failed to fulfil these expectations . Lillywhite's retirement left the bowling in younger hands, and atleast one promising Colt wasfound in Hide, of Eastbourne. Otherwise , in manyways, the cricket was disappointing . Messrs . Newhamand Trevor both showed good cricket ; but Messrs . M. P. Lucas and Bettesworth played little , and the latter was not seen at his best whenhe did bat, owing to wantof practice . Neither Messrs . Ellis nor Greenfield cameup to expectation . After four innings , Charlwooddisappeared altogether from the eleven . R e s u l t sof M a t c h e s. Matches played , 10 ; Won, 2 ; Drawn, 1 ; Lost , 7. W h e n Opponents. Where played . played . Club. Opnts. 1 s t2nd1st 2nd inn. inn. inn inn. W o nb y Matches W o n(2) . *Derbyshire Brighton *Surrey O v a l J u n e5,6,7 182 222 283 118 J y17,18,19 297 *40 202 132 3 runs 5 wkts; *5 w d MatchD r a w n(1) . R e m a r k. *K e n t . Brighton J e10,11,12 195 247 275 *33 *2wd Matches Lost (7). Lostb y (2) Yorkshire D e w s b u r y June15,16 104 100 184 *22 *K e n t . G r a v e s e n d 2 2, 23 128 218 521 *Surrey Brighton July3,4 9 8 179 164*116 *Derbyshire Derby و د ,, 14,15,16 10 wks; *n o w d inns& 175r u n s 9 wkts; *1 wd inns& 5 4r u n s 6 wkts ; *4 w d 201 runs 10 wks; *now d *N o t t s (3) Yorkshire *N o t t s E x t r aMatches. (1) Australians H a n t s H a n t s... 27, 28 95 83 232 Nottingham Aug.3, 4 Brighton Brighton Sep. 7,8, 9 186 56 148 *97 139 153 208 285 165 109 266 *9 Brighton M y1819.20 95 193 643 Brighton ,, 29,30,31 94 402 360 137 Portsmouth Aug. 29,30 227 81 125 (1) Sussexv. Australians. Brighton , M a y18, 19, and 20. inns& 355r u n s 7 wkts; *3 wd inns& 21 runs The largest English innings in a big match. Sussex had not quite its best eleven, but the bowling was so weakthat the Australians were able to reach a total without a parallel in an English match of any importance . The bad field- ing of Sussex contributed largely to the huge score of the Australians , as well as to Murdoch'sindividual contribution . Thefirst Australian wicketfell for 127, and the total reached 643. Of this sum, Murdochhimself contributed 286, not out, with only two lives , one from a very hard hit to point ; he alone scored 17 runs morein his one innings than the Sussex eleven from the bats in the match. Palmertook fourteen Sussex wickets for 110 runs. T h e Australians w o nbyan innings and 335 runs . Australians , 643. Sussex, 95 and 193 ; total , 2 8 8. (2) Sussexv. Yorkshire. Dewsbury, June 15, and 16. Sussex hadnot even a second rate teamfor this match, andthe gamewas, in consequence , a certainty for Yorkshire . Mr. Greenfield (88) made more than one-half of the Sussex total in the first innings ; and in the second , Lillywhite wasprincipal scorer , with 28 not out. Bates (56), Emmett(35), andUlyett (33) contributed 124 out of 170fromthe bat for Yorkshire. Sussex introduced into