James Lillywhte's Cricketers' Annual 1884

2 4 0 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 w e n t y-four R u n sfromone Over. A tSydney, for Holdsworth and Evans v. Norton and Smith, G. Rigg/made 2 2 7notout. I no n eoverof sixballsh escored2 4runs. Scoresfor t h elast W i c k e t. There was some peculiar scoring by the last wicket in three successive matchesat Southampton. For the Gentlemenof Hantsv. Old Cliftonians W . C. Blaker and H. Armstrong put on 55 runs for the last wicket ; for Somersetshire v. Hants E. W. Bastard and Fothergill added74 ; and for Hants v. UppinghamRovers Major Fellowes and Youngmade 60 runs for the tenth w i c k e t. ForSt. John's L.V.C. v. Pembroke L.V.C. , Cambridge, on August 11, Mr. E. FisherbowledMr. B r o w nwith the last ball of the match. H esent the off bail a distance of forty yards behind the wicket . In a match at Deddington, on August23 and 24, between Free Foresters and Deddington, Shillingford sent a bail forty -two yards from the wicket . A M A T C HBETWEENMANCHESTERA N DO L D TRAFFORDON M A Y12.-In Manchester's innings , at the commencementof Crossland's batting , Mr. F. Jones hit the off stump so hard that the bail fell off the middle stump, and the off stumpbeing drawn apart the bail lodged between the two stumps. In the same innings Watson's bail wasdislodged byShore out of the groove without falling off . O nJune 20, eleven Le Mays of London played eleven Lamberts of H o r s m o n d e n. Nineof the formerwerebrothers. O nJune5, two sevens of female cricketers , led byMiss Osborn and Miss Smith, played a match on Rickling Green. Miss E. Osborn scored 101. A cricket match was also played at Sir Hereward Wake's place in Northamptonshirebetweentwo teams of ladies . O n e of the batswomen scored thirty -five in one innings . A match between fifteen girls and eleven boys was played at Whitton Park, Hounslow. The fifteen wonby eleven wickets . A singular match was played at Sneinton , between the Sneinton Choir and Castle United. In this contest not only did the Sneinton team score thirty each time, but their opponents , after making twenty-two in the first , also totalled thirty in the second innings . There were nineteen cyphers in the m a t c h. A nincident of very rare occurrence in any matchtook place at the Oval in the first innings of Cambridge University against Surrey. Mr. C. W . Wright, turning round to hit a ball of Barratt's , trod on his wicket , and removed one of the bails . The batsmen ran two runs, and, as on the appeal of the Surrey Captain , both umpires declared they had not witnessed the removal of the bail , Mr. Wrightcontinued his innings . The Sydney Bulletin of January 20, gave three successive performances of abowler of the Heathcote Club, namedHipgrave, which are a little extra- ordinary. Theywere ten wickets for no runs , nine wickets for one, and five wickets for six runs . This madea total of twenty-four wickets for eleven r u n s .