James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1888

7 2 L I L L Y W H I T E ' SCRICKETERS' A N N U A L. (1) K e n t v. Yorkshire. Sheffield , M a y30 and 31 . The heavy rain just previous utterly spoiled this Whitsuntide match. Winning the toss , the Kent captain decided to take the innings -a doubtful policy , as after events proved. Thethree brothers Hearne--Frank (38), George (13), Alec (12)-were the only batsmen able to get into double figures , and the trio scored between them 63 out of a total of 92 runs . Badly as the visitors had shaped at the wickets , the hometeam did worse, as they fell short of their total by 15 runs . The wicket did not improve towards the end of the first day, and Kent,havingto bat a second time on it, fared rather worse than in their first attempt, the veteran TomEmmettdisposing of six of them at a cost of 36 runs . On thesecond day, though , the groundhad improved considerably . Kentplayed up pluckily , and by dint of good out cricket managedto dispose of six of their opponents before they obtained the necessary 105 runs . Mr. Hawke carried out his bat for a brilliant 36, and finished off the match by hitting Wootton out of thegroundfor six . Yorkshire wonby four wickets . Kent, 92 and 89 ; total , 181. Yorkshire , 77 and 107 (six wickets ) ; total , 184 . Peel(1st innings Kent) E m m e t t(2ndinningsK e n t) Martin(1st innings Yorkshire) ... O v e r s. M a i d e n s. R u n s. W i c k e t s. 2 7 . 1 1 9 1 4 5 2 7 1 2 3 6 6 8 . 2 7 3 3 (2) K e n tv. L a n c a s h i r e.. Manchester, June 2, 3, and4. Acrushing defeat for Kent, whoagain had all the worst of the luck andthe wickets . Lancashire won the toss and beganbadly, six wickets being down for 55 runs . Mr. Jowett (58) and Robinson (37), however, puton 63 runs before another fall occurred , and, the remaining batsmen all getting double figures , the respectable total of 179 was reached . Kent were by no means at homewith Watson's bowling, and the end of the first dayfound themwith only 71 runs to their account , and eight menout. O nthe second day no cricket took place owing todrenching rain . Kent's first innings was eventually finished off for a total of 84. Commencing their second on a fast drying wicket , Mr. Patterson and F. Hearne scored 34, of which the latter was responsible for 32. No one else , though , could look at Watson's bowling , and the innings resulted in a procession from and to the pavilion , the last nine m e nonly scoring 13 runs between them. Mr. Patterson , though he only scored six runs , played a marvellous innings on a mosttreacherous wicket, andhesawmostof his side out. W a t s o nwasextra- ordinarily successful , though muchhelped bythe state of the ground. His last ten overs were delivered for three runs and seven wickets . Lancashire wonby an innings and 48 runs . Lancashire , 179. Kent, 84 and47; total , 131 . W a t s o n(1st inningsKent) " (2 n d " " ) ..... O v e r s. M a i d e n s. R u n s. W i c k e t s. 4 4 4 5 2 4 3 2 4 0 2 2 6 6 7 7 (3) K e n tv. L a n c a s h i r e. Gravesend, June 27 and 28. Kentwerevery poorly represented in this the return match, and though Lan- cashire were without the assistance of Mr. Hornbyand other prominent amateurs , they were quite strong enough to secure a hollow victory by an innings and 62 runs . Thevisitors were certainly fortunate in batting first , as the wickets wore very badly the second day. Out of their total of 280, Briggs (65), Mr. Lan- cashire (45), and Robinson (44) were the highest scorers . Kent only just managedto get into three figures at each attempt , and suffered defeat as above stated . Lancashire , 280. Kent, 106 and 112 ; total , 218.