James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1892

6 2 L I L L Y W H I T E ' SC R I C K E T E R S' A N N U A L. B A T T I N GA V E R A G E S . I n n s. T i m e s n o tout. R u n s. M o s tin a nI n n s. A. C. McLaren 8 W a r d(A.) 3 6 2 2 2 9 0 8 9 Average. 4 8 . 3 3 2 1 0 5 3 1 8 5 30.97 S. M. Crosfield 1 7 3 3 5 2 *8 2 25.14 W a r d(F.) 3 0 6 6 4 7 2 2 Smith(A.) 2 0 1 4 0 5 1 2 4 21.31 Sugg 3 5 2 6 5 6 7 5 19.87 A.N.H o r n b y 2 2 3 3 6 5 5 7 1 9 . 2 1 Y a t e s 2 9 1 5 2 3 4 9 18.67 B a r l o w 2 6 1 4 6 1 8 8 18.44 B a k e r 2 9 1 3 9 1 9 3 1 3 . 9 6 Briggs.. 3 1 2 3 7 4 6 8 1 2 . 8 9 A. T. Kemble. 2 4 5 2 2 0 *2 7 11.57 W a t s o n 2 1 3 1 9 1 2 5 1 0 . 6 1 P a u l 5 1 3 4 2 3 8 . 5 0 M o l d 2 8 9 1 3 1 4 0 6 . 8 9 Whiteside played in three innings . The following played in two innings :-Heaton, Tinsley , Pilling , Rev. V. Royle. Inone innings :- A. G. Steel , R. Mortimer, J. A. McLaren, Ellis. B O W L I N G A V E R A G E S . Briggs M o l d... Smith(A.) W a t s o n B a k e r Overs. Maidens. R u n s. Wickets. Average. 1068.4 4 1 2 1 7 4 2 1 5 3 1 1 . 4 5 1083.4 3 9 4 1 9 1 3 1 6 2 1 1 . 8 0 189.2 8 5 2 7 6 1 9 1 4 . 5 2 541.1 2 6 5 8 0 3 5 5 1 4 . 6 0 152.1 6 3 2 7 9 1 3 2 1 . 4 6 Thefollowing also bowled :--Ellis , 10-2-18-2; F. Ward,7 - 3 - 4 - 0; Barlow , 3 7 - 1 3 - 70-1; A. G. Steel ,16-4-45-2; and S. M. Crosfield , 5-2-16-0. M I D D L E S E X . OFFICERS FOR 1891. -President , Earl of Strafford . Vice -Presidents , Lord G. Hamilton, M.P., V. E. Walker. Hon. Treasurer , W.Nicholson . Hon, Sec . , P. M. Thornton . Assistant Sec . , J. A. Murdock . Committee , Hon. A. Lyttleton , R. Henderson, G. Lee, J. Robertson , E. Rutter , C. M. Tebbut, M. Turner, C. I. Thornton, G. F. Vernon, V. E. Walker, I. D. Walker, J. G. Walker, A. J. W e b b e. IN happy contrast to their disastrous season of 1890 , Middlesex woneight and lost five of the sixteen inter -county contests in which they engaged last season. Asplendid victory in the return fixture with Surrey , and a double victory over Lancashire , were the chief features of their summer. Considering that Mr. A. J. Webbe, Mr. Nepean, and others were by no means in their best form, it might well be a surprise that the eleven were able to showthis good record . The principal factor was decidedly the marked advance in the bowling , J. T. Hearne and Rawlin (but more especially the former) working wonders in this department . Hearne, indeed , is nowquite in the front rank of bowlers , a position to whichh e has risen in the short space of twelve months; while in Rawlin is to be perceived a marked change for the better . Apart from this , coupled with the general excellence of the out-cricket , Middlesex depended mainly upontwo batsmen, Messrs . T. C. O'Brien and A. E. Stoddart . The first -named gentleman, whooften chose to hide his identity under the nameof " J. E. John- ston ," proved to be in splendid batting form, and he twice topped the " century " for the county. Mr. Stoddart , too, played grand cricket on several occasions , but was largely indebted to his magnificent display against Lancashire at Old Trafford the only 200 in a first -class matchduring 1891. It is a significant fact that after these two nobody could reach an average of twenty, while Phillips , the Melbourne Club bowler, wasnot nearly so successful as formerly . Theveteran