James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1896

131 LILLY WHITE* 8 CRICK.ETEK8 ANNUAL. fit W A R W I C K S H I R E . O f f ic e r * for 1895— President : Lord Willoughby de Broke, lion. Secretary: \V. Ansell, 78, Bristol Road, Edgbaston. Assistant Secretary: Rowland V. Ryder, 91, Alexandra Road, Edgbaston. lion. Treasurer: F . Messiter, 171, Pershore Road, Edgbaston. I f their experiences of the early part of the season only showed the Warw ick­ shire eleven to be a good batting side, in the later matches their all-round cricket was above the average, and, on the whole, there was some cause for satisfaction. There were three batsmen in quite the front rank, and Walter Quaife, Lilley, and Mr. Bainbridge, all of them had aggregates o f over 1,000 runs. In addition there were several who might at any time make a good score, notably W. G. Quaife, Mr. J. E. Hill, Mr. L. C. Docker (only, unfortunately, able to play rarely) and Law. Owing to ill-health Shilton was almost entirely lost to the County, and the loss of his bowling was severely felt. As it was, Dallett and Santall did most of the work. Whitehead was not so successful on the hard wickets, but Mr. Glover came off generally when tried, and in him Warwickshire has a promising all-round cricketer. L illey ’s wicket-keeping did not puffer by his success with the b a t ; on the contrary, he was one o f quite the very best stumpers of the year. Warwickshire’s 18 matches were equally divided between wins, drawn games, and losses. Results of Matches. Matches played, 18; won, 6 ; drawn , G; lost, 6 . Opponents. • 1\m f 1 «#vma 1 J iiiin, i __ Club. | Opnts. Won by. >vnunjpin) vu. > viiuu piayeu. i i 1 st Ins. 2 nd Ins. 1 st Ins. 2 nd Ins. Jfatchts Won (6). (•) Gloucestershire . . •*) Essex....................... Birmingham June 17,18,19 407 207 176 Inns. & 24 runs Leyton June 24, 25 170 *88 136 118 3 wkts ; *7 w d (•> I>uiicashire ... Liverpool July 4, 5, (1. July 8 , 9 1 (T 207 222 138 175 116 runs (* j Inicestendure 1 xdeester 299 135 155 Inns. & 9 runs *) Hampshire .. Sussex ............ Birmingham Aug. 8 , 9 ,10 148 *207 151 201 5 wkts ; *5 w d Southampton Aug. 19,20, 21 214 *98 197 114 6 wkts ; *4 w d Matches Drawn (Ob *) Essex.......................j Birmingham May 6 , 7, 8 259 *344 410 ltcmarks. *5 wkts. d •j Derbyshire............ Binningham May 13,14, 15 305 •237 234 +197 *7wd, i.e.; t3 wd (•) Surrey .. ... Birmingham May 30,31, J 1 129 258 305 *10 *No wkt. d (*) K«*nt....................... Binningham June 3, 4, 5 225 *210 229 tl05 *3 wd, i .c ,; t 3 wd 2 ) Yorkshire ............. Birmingham June27, 28,29 253 *130 163 t378 *4 w d; t 8 wd, i .c. *) Leicestershire ... Birmingham July 22 , 23, 24 *273 106 +80 * 8 wd, i.c.; t9wd Matches Lost ( 6 ). j (•; Surrey .. ... Oval May 16,17.18 123 174 520 L os t by. Ins. & 223 runs (1) Yorkshire ............. Bradford May 20 , 21,22 198 271 363 *109 8 wkts ; *2 w d (•} Derbyshire............ Derby June 10 , 11,12 128 111 193 247 201 runs (*/ Lancashire ... ... Birmingham July 29,30,31 195 112 361 Inns. & 54 runs (*) Gloucestershire Gloucester Aug. 1, 2, 3 166 122 231 *301 254 r; * 8 w(l; i.c. {•) JG'nt .. ............. Canterbury Aug. 5, 6 , 7 144 119 i 278 Inns. & 15 runs fl hose have all been treated m previous records.