James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1893

T H ECOUNTIESIN 1892. 1 0 5 Thoughthey played up fairly well , too , they never looked like success , and in spite of seven double figures were in a minority of 87 runs at the finish . Somersetshire , 74 and248 ; total , 322. Yorkshire , 110 and 125 ; total , 235 . F. S. Jackson (1st innings Somersetshire ) Tyler (2nd innings Yorkshire ) Nichols( ود ود ) Overs. 1 1 Maidens. Runs. Wickets. 3 2 0 5 1 4 6 2 5 4 8 . 1 4 1 1 3 (4) Somersetshirev. Surrey. Taunton , August 15, 16, and 17. The Somersetshire eleven in losing the toss were heavily handicapped , and the rain of the second morning practically settled their chances . The early batsmen of Surrey were seen to advantage at the outset , and at lunch time the telegraph showed 130 with only two wickets down. Subsequently S. M. J. Woods' bowling told with great effect , and the remainder of the innings , not- withstanding two useful scores of 41 by Brockwell and37 not out by Henderson , only realised 123. In the last hour's play on the first day Somerset fared well , thanks to H. T. Hewett, who knocked up 61 of the first 81 in fifty minutes . Owingto rain play could not be resumed till nearly two o'clock on the second afternoon , and then no one , except L. C. H. Palairet , who was last out for a very fine innings of 79, made any stay against Lohmann's bowling . Surrey's second innings was chiefly notable for the free hitting of W o o dat the finish , whichcredited h i mwith37 of the last 55 runs. Somersetshire had236 to get towin, and on their recent performances there was more than an outside chance ofsuccess . A sit was, Lockwoodand Lohmannbowled in their very best form, andin an hour the eleven were out for the insignificant total of 49. This left Surrey with an easy win by 186 runs . Surrey , 253 and 156 ; total , 409 . Somersetshire , 170 and 49 ; total , 223 . Lohmann(Surrey ) .. O v e r s. M a i d e n s. 4 0 . 2 1 2 Runs. Wickets. 7 8 1 0 (5) Somersetshirev. Yorkshire. Taunton , August 25 and 26. Thevery best of manybrilliant performances recorded to the Somersetshire eleven during the season. LordH a w k eandHunterwereboth unable to help Yorkshire, and the absence of the latter at the wicket hada very serious effect on the play of the side . Thetwo amateurs , C. Smith and F. S. Jackson , set the other Yorkshiremen a good example , making 80 for the first wicket . Six others , too , scored well , and the result wasa very creditable total of 299, the out- comeof four hours and a quarter's batting . Only forty-five minutes remained for play on the first evening , whenH. T. Hewett and L. C. H. Palairet went in for Somersetshire , and in this time they made78 without a wicket. Onthe following morning the two amateurs played brilliant cricket , and the total was raised to 346 before Hewett was bowled byPeel. H e had made201 in three hours and a half , and with only one chance from a hard hit whenhe had reached 189. The partnership had produced a record for first -class cricket , easily eclipsing the previous best , the 283 by W. G. Grace and B. B. Cooper for Gents v. Players of Southat the Oval, in 1869. Palairet waslet off at the wicketw h e nhe hadscored 28 --this was the one mistake in his 146. Later on W. C. Hedley scored 102, and this madethe third hundred in the innings , a rare performance in an important match. Somersetshire's 592 was the highest innings of the year in first -class cricket . Yorkshire wouldhave had all their workto avert defeat on the third day, with no less than 293 to save the innings . Fortunately for them continuous rain prevented any more play , and the game was left as it was on the previous evening . Peel's analysis of 59 overs for 133 runs and 7 wickets was a note- worthy feature of Yorkshire's long outing . Somersetshire , 592. Yorkshire , 299 .