James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1887

THE COUNTIES IN 1886. 1 0 3 (1) Surrey v. Yorkshire. Oval, M a y24, 25, and26. Asoften happens with the early fixtures of the season , wet weather very muchinterfered with this match. The result was that the bowlers had very much their ownwaythroughout , as an average of under eight runs per wicket proved . Thehighest score on either side was 30, obtained by W. E. Roller in Surrey's second attempt . The Surrey bowlers eventually won the match for their county with 27 runs to spare -a result very gratifying to the Southerners , who had not defeated Yorkshire at the Oval since 1877. Surrey , 56 and 105 ; total , 161 . Yorkshire , 71 and 63 ; total , 134 . B e a u m o n t(Surrey) O v e r s. M a i d e n s. 3 8 1 9 (2) Surreyv. Yorkshire. Sheffield , June 28, 29, and 30. R u n s. 3 5 W i c k e t s. 8 Awell -deserved victory for Surrey by seven wickets . Winning the toss , they scored 260, more than one-half of the runs from the bat being obtained by J. Shuter (70) and Maurice Read(56) . Yorkshire totalled 160 and 157 in their two innings , Ulyett (33 and 78) and Preston (62 and 23) doing the greater part of the scoring . Surrey , wanting 58 runs to win , lost three batsmen (J. Shuter, Diver, and W . W. Read) before they obtained the requisite amount. Surrey , 260 and 61 (three wickets ) ; total , 321. Yorkshire , 160 and 157 ; total , 317. O v e r s. M a i d e n s. 1 0 R u n s. W i c k e t s. 5 7 7 Bowley(Surrey ) .. 28.2 (3) Surreyvv. S u s s e x . Brighton, July 19, 20, and 21 . Neither side wasable to place its full strength in the field . W. W. Read and Lohmannwere playing for England at Lord's , while F. M. Lucas and Phillips were unable to assist the hometeam. Although they wonthe toss , and put on 130 runs for the first two wickets , Surrey were only able in their first innings to total 213 , to which J. Shuter (60), Abel (52), and Diver (26) were chief contributors . Walter Humphreys took six of the ten wickets with his lobs . Beaumontand Bowley, however, were even more deadly , as they disposed of their opponents for the small amount of 97 runs , W. Humphreys (37) alone getting into double figures . In their second innings they were more successful , andthe result was a total of 207 , which left Surrey 92 to win. This cost them seven of their best wickets , the lobs again proving disastrous to four of the bats- m e n. Surrey w o nby three wickets . Surrey , 213 and 92 (seven wickets ) ; total , 305. Sussex, 97 and 207; total , 304 . W .Humphreys(Sussex ) Overs. 3 1 M a i d e n s. 2 R u n s. Wickets.or (4) Surrey v. Sussex. Kalamo Oval,August 16, 17, and 18 . (8) Acreditable victory for Sussex by six wickets . Though he won the toss , Mr. Shuter tried the doubtful experiment of putting his opponents in, and Sussex made use of the opportunity to pile up 277, of which the captain , F. M. Lucas , made 121 by a very fine display of batting . Surrey had only ten