James Lillywhte's Cricketers' Annual 1884

C R I C K E TI N 1 8 8 3. 2 3 A v e r a g e sin all Matches. B A T T I N G A V E R A G E S . N o .o f T i m e s T o t a l M o s tin Matches. Inns. notout. r u n s. a ninns. M o s tin a M t c h. A .G .Steel. ...1 7 2 2 4 5 5 1 1 3 5 1 5 6 Average. 3 0 . 1 1 W .W .R e a d...... 1 7 2 2 1 5 6 9 8 4 8 4 2 7 . 2 C .F. H .Leslie... 1 6 2 1 2 4 8 4 1 4 4 1 4 4 2 5 . 9 C .T. S t u d d ..16 2 0 0 4 8 0 9 9 9 9 2 4 . 0 E.F. S. Tylecote.17 2 1 2 4 3 8 6 6 7 1 23.1 B a t e s .17 2 2 2 4 2 2 5 5 5 7 2 1 . 2 B a r l o w ..17 2 2 1 4 1 5 8 0 8 0 19.16 G .F.V e r n o n ...... 1 4 1 6 3 2 2 6 4 1 4 1 1 7 . 5 G.B. Studd 15 1 9 2 2 3 0 4 3 4 3 13.9 H o n. Ivo Bligh.. 11 1 6 1. 2 0 0 4 5 4 5 13.5 B a r n e s 1 7 2 1 2 2 5 1 3 2 3 2 1 3 . 4 M o r l e y 9 1 1 4 1 4 3 3 2 . 6 Balls. B O W L I N G A V E R A G E S . R u n s. Maidens. Wickets. Average. A .G .Steel 3 2 0 0 9 9 9 3 9 0 1 5 2 6 . 8 7 C. T.S t u d d. 1 7 8 6 4 6 7 2 3 5 6 0 7 . 4 7 M o r l e y 1 2 9 2 3 2 4 1 8 5 3 6 9 . 0 B a t e s .. 2 2 6 9 6 4 0 2 9 9 6 3 10.10 B a r n e s 1 4 5 9 4 7 3 1 5 5 4 4 10.33 W .W .R e a d 3 9 0 1 5 5 3 6 1 0 1 5 . 5. C. F. H. Leslie B a r l o w. 1 9 2 6 7 2 0 4 16.3 2 1 8 1 6 0 5 3 1 2 3 6 16.29 C H A P T E R III. C R I C K E T I N 1 8 8 3. B YI N C O G. A RETROSPECT often brings with it feelings of regret , of things undone, of promises unfulfilled . A retrospective glance at the close of each cricket season of late years has been tinged with a feeling of sorrow in someshape or other. A sa rule , the weather, has not been of the kindest , and the game, on the whole, has not been pursued under conditions calculated to produce thorough enjoyment . Rainfall above the average , and grounds rarely in a state conducive to the display of really good cricket , have been conspicuous features of the last few summers. Cricketers , at the same time, though they havebeen obliged to take their pleasures sadly , bear, to their credit it m a ybe said , good as well as ill fortune with equanimity, and they had their reward last year in a long continuance of really excellent and thoroughly enjoyable cricket . The success which marked the season of 1883 , too, is the more gratifying from the fact that there was no adventitious attraction to introduce whatis commonly termed sensation . The year was emphatically one of English cricket . Thefears that there might be a reaction after the bustle and excitement of the Australian visit of 1882, and their memorable victory at the Oval, were happily in no way realised . It says , too , muchfor the enduring foundation of the game that , in spite of the theories of the alarmists , who saw in the rapid advance of other pastimes dangerous rivals to our national sport , cricket still continues to grow in popularity , and in no small strides . It m a y,