James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1888

8 4 LILLYWHITE'SCRICKETERS' A N N U A L. be admitted that the victory of Middlesex was due to excellent all -round cricket . Abadmistake in the long field gave Mr. S. W . Scott a life when he had only madefour, and as he afterwards scored 95, this proved a serious mistake . Messrs . Stoddart (85) and J. G. Walker (59) punished the Surrey bowling severely , and the latter's batting was as good as any in the match. ThoughMr. JohnShuter got a hundred by brilliant play in Surrey's second innings , the batting was, on thewhole, muchbelow the usual standard , though exception must be madein favour of Henderson, whoscored 72 for once out by good cricket . Dunkley, a newbowler (left hand), proved very successful for Middlesex . In Surrey's first innings he took six wickets for 86 runs . Middlesex wonby nine wickets . Mid- dlesex , 339 and 78 (one wicket ) ; total , 417. Surrey , 176 and 240 ; total , 416 . (2) M i d d l e s e xv. Y o r k s h i r e. Huddersfield , August 11 , 12, and 13 . Amatchmemorablefor an exceptionally brilliant display of batting by M r, A. J. Webbe, the Middlesex captain . Thewicket did not play very well at the outset , and the first day witnessed the downfall of twenty-two wickets for an aggregate of 357 runs . O n the resumption , however, some remarkable cricket wasshownby Mr. Webbe. Going in first as usual on the first evening , he was not out whenthe second innings of Middlesex came to an end just before the close of the second day. H escored 243 (not out) of the total of 527, and though he ought to have been caught at 63, and subsequently made more than one mistake , still it was an extraordinary performance . He was in altogether six hours and a quarter , and it is worthy of remark that this is the highest score he hasever madein an important match. Rain prevented any play on the third day, so that the Yorkshiremen , whowanted 464 to win, with eight wickets to fall , were lucky in the draw. Middlesex , 130 and 527 ; total , 657. Yorkshire , 181 and 13 (two wickets ) ; total , 194 . Overs. 23.1 Preston(1st inns. Middlesex) . Mr. F. G. J. Ford (1st inns . Yorks.) .... 13 M a i d e n s. 1 0 8 R u n s. W i c k e t s. 5 5 1 7 (3) M i d d l e s e xv. N o t t s. Nottingham, August 15 , 16 , and 17. 7 4 4 Amatch particularly noteworthy, producing , as it did, the highest total , as well as the best individual score , of the year in inter -county matches. The Nottinghamshire eleven were in until just before the close of the second day, having,during their occupation of the wickets , scored 596. Shrewsbury andScot- ton put on 167 before the latter was out, but the best stand of the innings was b yShrewsbury and Barnes (115), who added 214 runs for the third wicket . Shrewsbury wentin first , andwas eighth out with the total at 536. H e was actually batting over ten hours, so that his runs were got at an average of under twenty-seven runs a n hour. His 267 w a sthe moreremarkableas it did not contain , as far as we could see, an unmistakable chance . Shrewsbury's score wasthe highest of the season , andthe total of 596 of Notts the largest total in inter -county fixtures in 1887. Heavyrain on the second night caused the wicket to play badly on the third day, and Middlesex were lucky to get out of it as well as they did. At the finish they were 376 runs behind , having lost two bats- menin the second innings . Notts , 596. Middlesex , 179 and 41 (two wickets ) ; total,220.