James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1890

8 8 LILLYWHITE'SCRICKETERS' ANNUAL. (9) Surrey v. Derbyshire. Oval, June 20 and 21. TheDerbyshire eleven made a very poor show in this match though they began fairly well at all points , and had to put up with a decisive defeat by an innings and 223 runs . They had certainly to undergo a very long outing at the outset , and this had evidently a depressing effect on their batting , which broke downcompletely . Thoughthey wonthe toss it did not look as if Surrey would makea long score , the fall of the sixth wicket only showing a total of 123. The tail , though , offered a most extrardinary resistance , and the last four wickets addedas manyas 277. Maurice Read (103), Lockwood (81) were the first to makea stand , and Sharpe (not out 56) and Beaumont (66), the two last batsmen , followed a good example , adding 118 for the tenth wicket . Of the Derbyshire batting little could be said . Davidson's second score , of 29, was the highest con- tribution on the side , and the twenty wickets could only realize an average of under nine runs . Lohmannand Bowley bowled unchanged in their second innings . Mr. F. Fielding played for Surrey and Mr. F. Evershed for Derbyshire for the first time . Surrey , 400. Derbyshire , 87 and 90 ; total , 177. (10) Surreyv. OxfordUniversity. Oval, June24, 25, and26. Mr. H. W. Forster was unable to play for Oxford, and his bowling was sadly missed . As it was Surrey , whowent in first , did not complete their innings till thesecond morning, and their total was the highest of the season in a matchof any importance . Mr. Shuter andAbel began by making77 for the first wicket , and seven other batsmen got useful scores . There was very nearly another instance of three hundreds in aninnings as Abel (138), Maurice Read (136) , got into three figures , and Mr. Read (91), not to mention Mr. Fielding (75) within measurabledistance. Threebatsmenfailed to geta runandthis wasnoteworthy considering that the result was a huge total of 614. The Surrey innings lasted eight hours and ten minutes , so that the scoring showed an average of over seventy runs an hour. Mr. Rashleigh (50), and the H o n. F. J. N. Thesiger (46) were the principal scorers in Oxford's first innings , and in the second Mr. Gresson (22) andJardine (13) the only double figures . Surrey wonby aninnings and 365 runs . Surrey , 614. Oxford University , 180 and 67; total , 247. Lohmann(Surrey ) O v e r s. M a i d e n s. 3 2 7 5 R u n s. W i c k e t s. 9 5 1 1 (11) Surreyv. Derbyshire. Derby, July 22, 23, and 24. Rain caused several interruptions during the game, and the scoring on both sides was consequently below the average . Surrey , who were without their captain , Mr. Shuter , went in first but only fared moderately well ; indeed , nine- teenwickets fell on the first day for an aggregate of 206 runs . Surrey, who were 33 to the good on the first hands, only improved slightly on their first total , and most the usual run -getters failed , leaving Lockwood (43) and Lohmann(not out 38) to do the bulk of the scoring . Going in a second time with 182 to win Derbyshire madea very promising commencement, and with 86 u pandonly two batsmen out the outlook for Surrey was not very encouraging . Bowley's bowling , though, proved altogether fatal to Derbyshire's chances and