James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1896

<62 LILLY WHITE’ S CRICKETERS’ ANNUAL. (4) M.C.C. and Ground v . Yorkshire. Lord's, May and 14. A check in the victorious career of Marylebone, though Yorkshire were without Mr. Jackson. They did well to get rid of M.C.C. for 105, and then to respond with 210 . Tho County lost seven wickets for 78. Thanks chiefly to an admirable 71 by Moorhouse, and an “ astonishing” 56 by Hirst, the last three wickets added 162 runs. The M.C.C. did better on the second day, but things had gone too far, and Dr. Grace did not score well either time. Yorkshire won by nine wickets. M.C.C., 105 and 197 ; total, 302. Yorkshire, 240 and 66 1 wicket); total, 306. (5) M.C.C. and Ground v. Lancashire. Lord's , May 16 and 17. A crushing reverse for a rather powerful team of the Club, who, batting first on a wicket that recovered itself later, went out for a moderate score. Tinsley (59) and Mr. Hornby (24 and not out 45) did best for the Northerners, Mr. Marchant and Davidson making a splendid effort to retrieve matters when too late. Lancashire, thanks largely to Mold’s “ expresses,” got home by ten wickets. Lancashire, 258 and 7 9 ; total, 337. M.C.C., 142 and 194; total, 336. (6) M.C.C. and Ground v . Derbyshire. Lord's , May 20 and 21.! M.C.C., helped bv a finely-plaved 59 from Neville Leese, led on the first innings. Davidson’s batting and Porter’s bowling, however, turned the scale, and the former hit 114 runs for once out. Derbyshire won by 42 runs. Derbyshire, 103 and 185; total, 288. M.C.C., 149 and 97; total, 246. Overs. Maidens. Runs. Wickets. Martin (1st inns. Derbyshire) ... 21 9 22 6 Porter (Derbyshire) ...................... 25*1 9 49 8 (7) M.C.C. and Ground v. Essex. Lord's , May 23 and 24. The run of luck still continued steadily against the Club. After a slow and low scoring match that did not deserve to last into the third day, the County managed to scrape through by 21 runs. Essex, 105 and 168 ; total, 273. M.C.C., 114 and 138 ; total, 252. (8) M.C.C. and Ground v . Warwickshire* Lord's | June 6 and 7. In extenuation of Warwick’s feeble display it should be stated that they were minus Messrs. Bainbridge, Hill, and Docker. Sir T. C. O’Brien (106 not out) and Mr. Scott (107) fairly demoralised the bowlers, and the former’s runs were got as rapidly as usual. Mead and Pickett—both, by a coincidence, Essex men— backed them up so excellently that Marylebone eventually won by the enormous margin of an innings and 215 runs. M.C.C., 448 ; Warwickshire, 127 and 106; total, 233.