James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1887

1 0 0 LILLYWHITE'SCRICKETERS' A N N U A L. seven wickets . Notts , 272 and 25 (three wickets ) ; total , 297. Surrey , 99 and 194; total , 293. Attewell (1st innings Surrey ) . (6) O v e r s. M a i d e n s. 4 4 . 2 2 3 N o t t sυ. Y o r k s h i r e . Sheffield , August 9, 10, and 11 . R u n s. 5 6 Wickets. 8 Rainprevented any play on the second day, and Yorkshire , whohad all the worst of the wicket , were lucky to escape a defeat . Notts went in first , and found it so difficult to score off the Yorkshire bowling , that they were in all the opening day for a total of 156. The ground was all in favour of the bowlers w h e nYorkshire went in on the third morning, and whenthe gamecame to an end sixteen of their wickets had fallen for an aggregate of 133 runs . Atthe finish they still wanted 23 runs to avoid defeat in an innings , with only four wickets to go down. Notts , 156. Yorkshire , 58 and 75 (six wickets ) ; total , 133 , Flowers(1st inns. Yorkshire). E m m e t t(Yorkshire) O v e r s. M a i d e n s. 4 8 6 6 3 2 4 2 R u n s, 3 3 4 9 Wickets, 7 5 (7) Notts v. Australians. Nottingham, M a y17, 18, and 19. Rain prevented a commencement until the second morning , and as play only lasted on that day an hour and a quarter , owing to the same cause , the match lost all its interest . There was no chance , indeed , of finishing the game, and as the ground was all in favour of the bowlers , the scoring was muchbelow the average , twenty -two wickets realising but 225 runs . Garrett's 30 in first innings of Australians was the highest contribution of the match. At the close the Australians were 17 runs on, with eight wickets to fall . Notts , 104. Austra- lians , 109 and 12 (two wickets ) ; total , 121 . F. R. Spofforth (Australians ) Overs. Maidens. R u n s. Wickets. 3 8 1 5 5 8 6 (8) Nottsv. Australians. Nottingham , July 8, 9, and 10 . Adrawcertainly in favour of the Australians . Shrewsbury (72 and 28), Scotton (17 and 45), and Mr. H. B. Daft (42 and 19) were the principal contri- butors for Notts ; indeed the three named were responsible for 223 of 335 scored by Notts from the bat . Though Messrs . Palmer (59), Scott (37), and Giffen (34) all played well , the Australians were in a minority of 22 on the first hands, the other eight of the eleven together contributing 31 runs . TheAustra- lians had 180 to get to win whenthey went in a second time , with just three hours left for play . Messrs . Scott and Jones got 64 of the number before the latter wascaught , and as Giffen was well in with 24 not out when play ceased , and there were still six wickets left to get 58 runs , Notts would in all likelihood have been beaten had time allowed , Scotton , in the second innings of Notts , was three hours and thirty -five minutes at the wickets for his 45. Barnes was unable to play for Notts , and Lockwood , a colt , made his first appearance in the Notts county eleven in place of Walter Wright , who refused to play unless he received ten pounds . Notts , 197 and 157 ; total , 354. Australians ,175 and 122 (four wickets ); total , 297. Australians v. Players of England. Nottingham , June 21, 22, and 23 . Amatch productive of high scoring . In the three days 775 runs were scored