James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1887

THE COUNTIES IN 1886. 8 1 agreat stand against Woof's bowling, and they fell short of the amountre- quired to tie by31 runs . Lancashire , 182 and 129 ; total , 311. Gloucestershire , 116 and226; total , 342. Briggs(1st inningsGloucestershire) W o o f(2ndinnings Lancashire) O v e r s. 5 2 M a i d e n s. 3 0 R u n s. 4 4 W i c k e t s. 5 4 0 1 3 6 2 (12) Gloucestershirev. Australians. Clifton , August5, 6, and7. Adrawdecidedly in favour of the county . Gloucestershire , winning the toss ,werein all the first dayfor a total of 220. Three batsmen, Messrs . Brain (60), Moberly (60), and E. M. Grace (44) were mainly responsible for this suc- cess ; in fact they were answerable for 164 of 212 from the bat. Half of the Australian wickets were down for 70, but a stand by Messrs . Blackham and Jones, w h oput on 87while together , improved their position materially , and after all the county only hada lead of nine runs at the end of an innings . W h e nGloucestershire went in a second time , Messrs . W. G. Grace (110 ), Brain (70), and Page (66) punished the Australian bowling heavily , and all three showedreally good cricket . With368 to win, the Australians had lost five good wickets for 173, whenplay ceased , so that at the finish they still wanted 195 to win, with half their wickets in hand. In the first innings of the Australians Mr. W. G. Grace took seven wickets for 63 runs , excellent figures onabatsman's pitch . Gloucestershire , 220 and 358 ; total , 578. Australians , 211 and 173 (five wickets ) ; total , 384 . (13) Gloucestershirev. Australians. Cheltenham , August 16, 17, and 18. Thefirst matchof the Cheltenham week, andnot afortunate commencement for the county, as events proved. Raincaused the ground to be all in favour of the bowlers , andonly one of the four innings exceeded 120. Gloucestershire were ableto claim a lead of 45 runs onthe first hands, andas five wickets wered o w n in the second innings of the Australians for 41, the county ought to have had a really good chance. As it was, several mistakes in the field enabled Messrs . BruceandBlackhamto add69 runs for the sixth wicket , and this stand influenced the result materially . Gloucestershire , wanting 160 to win, madean excellent commencement, and 100 wasupwith only four batsmenout. After the retire- mentof Mr. E. M. Grace, though, a complete collapse ensued, and as only 33 wereaddedbythe remaining batsmen, the Australians were able to claim a very creditable winby26 runs . Mr. Spofforth bowled with great success for the Aus- tralians . His ten wickets cost 106 runs. Gloucestershire , 74 and 133 ; total , 207. O v e r s. 2 9 Woof(2nd innings Australians ) Mr.Garrett (1st innings Gloucestershire ) .. 1 3 Australians , 119 and 114 ; total , 233 . M a i d e n s. 1 7 7 R u n s. 3 2 1 1 W i c k e t s. 7 4 B A T T I N GA V E R A G E S . T i m e s I n n s. n o to u t. R u n s. M o s tin a nI n n s. J.H .B r a i n 2 0 2 5 4 4 7 1 Average. 3 2 W .G. Grace.... 2 6 2 7 1 4 1 1 0 29.75 O. G. Radcliffe . 2 7 1 6 2 2 *1 0 4 2 3 . 9 2 F. Townsend 1 9 1 4 0 3 1 0 6 22.38 E.M.Grace 2 3 0 4 5 7 6 1 19.86 H .V .Page 2 0 1 0 7 4 3 3 8 1 7 . 7 8 G. Francis ................ 1 4 1 L 2 2 4 1 8 1 8 91 7 . 2 3 2 7