James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1893

T H EM A R Y L E B O N EC L U BIN 1892. 6 5 Middlesex wonby aninnings and 102 runs . Middlesex , 523. Gloucestershire , 244 and177; total , 421. Phillips (2nd innings Gloucestershire ) ...... O v e r s. 2 4 M a i d e n s. 7 R u n s. W i c k e t s. 3 3 5 (5) A r m yv. B a r. J u n e1 3 a n d14. A neasy victory for the Army, who were seen to advantage at all points . Captain L. A. Hamilton, the Kentcricketer , was the most successful run-getter for the A r m y, with33 and 83 not out. T h eleaders on the other side wereG.W . Ricketts , the Oxonian, with 5 and 69, T. Lindley , the old Cantab, with 6 and 54. Captain Hedley, of the Somersetshire Eleven, took eleven of the Bar wickets for 140 runs . TheArmywonby nine wickets . Army, 210 and 126 (one wicket ) ; total 336. Bar, 123 and 211 ; total , 334. (6) Y o r k s h i r ev. M i d d l e s e x. June 16, 17 and 18. Awell -contested match , wonin brilliant style after a plucky up-hill game. It was a most creditable victory indeed for the Yorkshiremen , the more so as during the early stages they had all the worst of the luck. Middlesex , with the advantage of first innings , looked like making a very big score , so well did the captain , A. J. Webbe, and A. E. Stoddart open the game. At luncheon -time the score was 123 with only one batsman out, and with a wet ball and slippery groundfor a time after , the Yorkshiremen were heavily handicapped , so much so that 220 was up with two wickets down. Of these 96 had been added by S... W .Scott and T. C. O'Brien in exactly an hour, and the cricket during their partnership was some of the most lively of the match. Thewicket , after the heavy rain of the previous day, gave the batsmen considerable assistance on the second morning, so muchso that the innings was soon finished , the last seven batsmen on the side only adding 34 between them. On a drying wicket Yorkshire began badly, but Peel (54) and, later on, Wainwright(73) and Moorhouse (26) scored freely from the Middlesex bowlers , and in the end the follow on was saved with fourteen runs to spare . Thougheight of the Middlesex eleven got into double figures in the second innings the total only reached 184, and of these 54 were got byScott , whoscored 134 in the match. Yorkshire , with 249 to win, and Lord Hawkeindisposed , had a very difficult task before them for a fourth innings . Morethan one slight interruption from rain , too, did not improve their chance . Thanks mainly to an exceptionally fine innings of 111 by Ulyett , and in a lesser degree to E. Smith (38) and Wainwright (37), the runs were got for the loss of six batsmen, so that Yorkshire wona splendid victory byfour wickets . Ulyett wasbatting three hours. The Middlesex fielding was very faulty at the close , and this , to a great extent , explains their defeat . Yorkshire , 228 and 250 (four wickets ) ; total , 478. Middlesex , 292 and 184 ; total , 476. (7) N o t t sv. M i d d l e s e x. June 20, 21, and 22. Aremakable match, with a finish as creditable to the losing as to the winning side . Notts , whowonthe toss , were in until late on the second afternoon . The occasional showers which interrupted the gameon the first dayhad fortunately little on no effect on the wicket , as the duration of the innings showed. Notts 6