James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1887

T H ECOUNTIESIN 1886. 9 3 byCheshire from the bat. Lancashire wonby aninnings and 145 runs . Lanca- shire , 322. Cheshire , 53 and124 ; total , 177. Briggs (Lancashire ) Barlow(1st inns. Cheshire) O v e r s. M a i d e n s. 59.1 1 1 . 1 3 5 8 R u n s. 7 5 7 W i c k e t s. 1 1 4 (14) Lancashirev. Cheshire. Stockport , August 20 and 21 . Amoredecisive reverse for Cheshirethanin the first match. Messrs. Lan- cashire (111 ) andJ. Eccles (93) put together 184 for the fourth wicket of Lanca- shire , and the two amateurs beat Cheshire off their ownbats . Singularly enough thebest scorer on the Cheshire side proved to be the last batsman, J. Bretherton (30and12), whowas the only one able to get double figures each time. Nine bowlers were tried in Lancashire's one innings . Lancashire wonby an innings and 193 runs . Lancashire , 359. Cheshire , 111 and55 ; total , 166. W a t s o n(1st inns. Cheshire) Briggs (2nd " " ) O v e r s. 4 6 . 3 2 3 . 3 M a i d e n s. R u n s. 3 2 4 2 1 1 3 9 W i c k e t s. 6 5 (15) Lancashirev. Essex. Leyton , August 30, 31 , and September 1. A tone time it looked as if Essex were going to have a good look in . Though they lost half their wickets for 59 runs , the tail played up so well that they were able after all to claim a very respectable total of 209. Lancashire lost seven batsmenfor 155, but the good batting of Mr. E. C. Hornbyand Yates , whoput on 72 for the eighth wicket , improved matters , and at the close of an innings they were 23 ahead. The bowling of Watsonand Barlow proved too goodwhen Essexwent in a second time, and only four batsmen got double figures , the highest of the quartette , Mr. F. P. Francis , with 31. Lancashire had 93 to get to win,andobtained them for the loss of two wickets , Robinson hitting particularly wellfor his 51 not out. Lancashire wonby eight wickets . Lancashire , 232 and 96 (two wickets ) ; total , 328. Essex , 209 and 115 ; total , 324 . W a t s o n(2ndinns. Essex). . . . . R u n s . 4 9 Wickets. O v e r s. 5 5 M a i d e n s. 3 8 6 B A T T I N GA V E R A G E S . T i m e s M o s ti n I n n s. n o tout. R u n s. a nInns. Average. A .G .Steel H u d s o n . 4 5 1 2 3 2 8 3 77.1 0 1 8 6 9 8 37.1 A.N.Hornby 2 9 0 8 8 4 1 6 1 30.14 J. Eccles 9 0 2 2 1 9 3 24.5 Robinson 2 5 3 5 2 3 ) 7 3 23.17 E. C. H o r n b y 9 0 1 8 2 8 2 2 0 . 2 Briggs 3 4 2 6 3 2 1 8 1 0 7 19.24 B a r l o w 3 5 3 6 1 8 8 2 19.10 O .P. Lancashire 3 3 2 4 9 9 1 1 1 1 6 . 3 C. H.Haigh 1 8 2 2 3 25 1 1 4 . 8 H .B .Steel 1 0 0 1 3 1 1 3 . 1 W a t s o n .... 3 0 6 2 7 3 3 8 0 1 1 . Yates. 3 0 4 3 0 4 5 4 11.7 Pilling 2 9 1 5 1 4 1 1 7 1 0 . 1 P.Dobell 1 2 1 1 0 7 2 8 9 . 8 V.F.Royle 7 1 5 0 1 8 8 . 2 A .Teggin.. 9 0 3 5 9 3 . 8 H .Eccles 4 0 1 9 8 3 . 4 S m i t h 4 0 8 4 2 Thefollowing batted in two innings only :- G. Kemp, 8; E. Roper, 1; Champion, 4; F. Taylor , 2 ; Δ. Τ. Kemble, 4; Shore , 3 ; R. H. Moss , 14. In one innings :-Burns, 32; Bower , 1.