James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1895

2 5 2 LILLYWHITE'SC R I C K E T E R S' A N N U A L. F i v eW i c k e t sw i t hS u c c e s s i v eB a l l s. Bryan , for Winchester House v. St. Paul's , Maze Hill , July 27. F o u rW i c k e t sw i t hS u c c e s s i v eB a l l s. A. F. Spencer for Hinde Street v. Lowndes, on June 23rd . A wicketwiththe first ball deliveredb y a Playerin a first -class CountyM a t c h. Barlow (R.G. ), Lancashire v. Yorkshire , at Sheffield , July 18, 1871 ; J. J. Parfitt , Surrey v. Yorkshire , at the Oval, August 12, 1881 ; E. C. Streatfeild , Surrey v. Lancashire , at the Oval, August 20, 1890 ; M. Berkley , Essex v. Yorkshire , at Halifax , July 12, 1894; and L. C. V. Bathurst , Middlesex v. Sussex, at Lord's , July 16, 1894. All T e nW i c k e t sin a n I n n i n g sin first-class M a t c h e s. E. Hinkly, for Kent v. England, July 11, 1848 ; John Wisden, for North v. South, at Lord's July 15, 1850 (all bowled ) ; Mr. V. E. Walker, for England against Surrey , at the Oval, July 21, 1859, for Gentlemen of Middlesex v. Gentlemen of Kent, at Mote Park, Maidstone , June 16, 1884, and Middlesex v. Lancashire , at Manchester , July 2, 1865 : Mr. E. M. Grace, for M.C.C. v. Gentlemen of Kent, at Canterbury , August 14, 1862 ; G. Wootton, for All -England v. Yorkshire , July 19, 1865 ; W. Hickton , for Lancashire v. Hampshire , July 21 , 1870 ; J. C. Shaw, for Notts v. England, September 15, 1870 ; Mr. S. E. Butler , for Oxford against Cambridge , at Lord's , June 26, 1871 ; James Lillywhite , for the South against the North, at Canterbury , August 7, 1872 ; A. Shaw, for the M.C.C. against the North of England, at Lord's June 1, 1874 ; E. Barratt , for the Players against the first Australian team, at the Oval, September 2, 1878 ; G. Giffen , for Anglo-Australian team v. Combined Australia , February 16, 1884 ; Mr. W. G. Grace, for M.C.C. and Ground against Oxford University , at Oxford, June 22, 1886 ; Burton, for Middlesex against Surrey , at the Oval, July 19, 1888 ; Mr. S. M. J. Woods, for Cambridge University v. Mr. C. I. Thornton's England Eleven , at Cambridge, May12, 1890 ; T. Richardson , for Surrey v. Essex, at the Oval, June18, 1894. C u r i o u sI n c i d e n t s . In 1890, the Veteran Suffolk Cricketer, J. G. Francis, w h o is 63 years old, and his son , H. A. Francis , scored over a thousand runs apiece ; last year, in bona fide matches , they did the same thing , the former playing 42 inns ., 8, not out ; 1,004 runs . Highest, 106. Average, 29.18 . The latter , 44inns .; 10, not out ; 1,387 runs 108, highest score : average , 40.27 . In a match at Melbourne, played in January between, Coburg v. Melbourne , D. Mailer wasgiven out for handling the ball , which had stuck in his pads after being played . April 11. At Basket Range (South Australia ), Eleven Leaks played Basket Range. On July 31st , in a match at Taunton, Kent v. Somersetshire , Tyler was run out by Alec. Hearne, the bowler , in Somersetshire's second innings , for leaving his ground before the ball was delivered . OnAugust 21, at Oval, in a match between Kentv. Surrey , Alec Hearne was bowled by the first ball in each innings of Kent. Onsame day, in same match, Richardson bowled Mr. F. Marchant, with a no-ball in Kent's first innings . The only no-ball Richardsonhas bowledin a first -class match. On August, 18, at Oval, Surrey v, Lancashire , match ended in a tie . The sixth important match on the Surrey Ground which has ended in a tie .-- In playing a ball from Rawlin, in match at Oval, between Surrey v. Middlesex, on M a y5, a piece of Mr. D. L. A. Jephson's bat went off and re- m o v e dthe leg bail . T h ebatsmanwas given out. In matchat Manchester, between Lancashire v. Sussex, Alfred Shaw, the old Notts. player , played for Sussex for the first time , after an absence of ten years from county cricket .