James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1889

T H ES E C O N DP A R S E ET E A M, 5 5 BOWLINGAVERAGESIN REPRESENTATIVEMATCHES(NINE). O v e r s . M a i d e n s. R u n s. Wickets. Average. C. T. B. Turner J. J. Ferris. H .F. Boyle.. J. J. Lyons... S. M. J. Woods. J. Worrall H .Trott 583.3 2 4 3 8 8 9 7 0 12.49 481.2 2 1 8 7 0 6 4 1 1 7 . 9 3 0 1 3 8 7 2 18.1 4 9 1 3 9 9 5 1 9 . 4 51.1 1 8 1 2 1 5 24.1 3 4 1 3 7 3 3 24.1 1 1 3 2 9 2 8 9 8 36.1 S. P. Jones bowled 33 overs for 65 runs and no wicket , and J. D. Edwards 5 overs for 17 r u n sand no wicket. C H A P T E R V . T H ES E C O N DP A R S E ET E A M. T H Evisit of a team of Parsee cricketers to England in 1886 marked quite a new history in the annals of the game. Australia and America had each shownus of what quality their own talent was, and how thoroughly the lessons of the Englishteams whohad visited Australia and the States hadbeen taken to heart a n dutilized . Butthere was even more reason for satisfaction at the proof fur- nishedby the Parsees , that the native races of India were identifying themselves withthe sports and amusements of the nation under whose rule they had grown a n dprospered . The first visit of the Parsees struck a new chord in the sym- pathies of cricketers , showing themhowthe gamecould be upheld and fostered b yapeople not used by constant practice to great physical efforts as well as underthe disadvantages of a climate calculated to enervate rather than incite to anyexercise requiring great exertion or real powers of endurance . Crude as their cricket was, too, the Parsees who visited England in 1886 wongolden opinions , not only by their evident devotion to the game, but as well by their sportsmanlike demeanour on the cricket -field . The results of that first tour, disastrous as they were from a financial point of view, were not altogether un- successful so far as the main object of the trip was concerned . Theycame, in fact, to see cricket as it is played bythe best exponents of the gamein England, andonEnglish grounds . Undertaken strictly with an educational object , the first visit was not without its advantages . At least , it was deemed so far to have fulfilled the ideas of its promoters as to justify a reappearance of Parsee cricketers in England , and within the short space of two years . The interval had evidently not been without its effect in improving the general form of the Parsee players , andthere was abundant evidence last summerin the all -round cricket of the Indian team that their predecessors had not been idle in their efforts to convey to their brethren at homethe benefit of the lessons they had them- selves received in England . There was, indeed , a marked improvement in the play generally by comparison with that shownin 1886. Practically the first tour lacked a win, as the one success at Normanhurst could hardly be magnified into a real victory . On several occasions , though, last year the team commanded by Mr. P. D. Kangashowed good all -round cricket , and morethan once they played an uphill game in a most creditable style . They won both at Hastings andEastbourne after having in each case , particularly in the latter , the worst of the game, and in more than one other instance , notably at Norwich, Scar- borough, and in the second match at the Oval, their cricket was by no means of an inferior kind . In their last engagement they were opposed by a far from weakside of the Gentlemen of Surrey , and here they played up with great pluck, only losing in the end by nine runs. During the latter part of the tour they were unlucky enough to lose the services of Mr. Pandole , their best slow bowler , who was obliged to return , and his loss weakened their out -cricket materially . Still , they made, although their opponents in some matches were only of moderate strength , a favourable impression , certainly a very great improve- mentonthat created bytheir predecessors . In Messrs . Cooper and Dubashthey had two very useful batsmen . The former played in good style in the earlier