James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annaul 1897

1 3 2 LILLYWHITE'SCRICKETERS' ANNUAL. (1) Surreyv. Warwickshire. Oval , May4, 5 and 6 . Thoughthey got first knock on an easy wicket Warwickshire madea bad start , losing seven of the best batsmen for 87. L a w(73) andPallett worked a great change, and, after helping L a wto add 122, Pallett carried out his bat for 55. Surrey, in their turn, did not appear in for a big score , as half the side w e r eout for 136. Mr.W .W .R e a d, however, c a m eto the rescue with s o m e fine hitting , andAbel and he added 142 in ninety -five minutes. Abel was in threehours and forty minutes for his 138, Mr. Read two hours and twenty minutes for 112. Warwickshire, going in a second time, 147 to the bad, had to batin a rather bad light , and play had to be stopped prematurely on the second night. Surrey wonby an innings and 26 runs. Surrey, 362. Warwickshire, 215and121; total, 336. (2) S u r r e yv. W a r w i c k s h i r e . Birmingham, M a y18, 19 and 20. Warwickshire, winning the toss again , did even better with the bat than at the Oval . W. G. Quaife failed to score , but all the other nine batsmen out got double figures . Theresult was a very creditable total of 313, of which Mr.Bainbridge (57) and W. Quaife (96), who went in first , contributed nearly one-half. All the early batsmen of Surrey scored well , particularly Holland , whomade153. Fourwickets were downfor 285, but the tail failed so that the total was only 371. Warwickshire's batting in the second innings was generally a failure . Lilley carried out his bat for 51, but the rest of the side betweenthem only scored 61. Surrey wonby ten wickets . Surrey , 371 and 57 (no wicket ) ; total , 428. Warwickshire, 313 and114 ; total , 427. (3) Surreyv. Yorkshire. Bradford, June 9 and 10. T h ematchwasoriginally fixed to be played at Sheffield , but uncertainty as to the wicket there caused the venue to be changed to Bradford. Unfortunately rain prevented any play on the first day, and then the wicket helped thebowler. Havingto bowl with a wet ball at the outset Surrey did well to get their opponents out for 135. Surrey, with Brockwell's 34 as the best score , headedYorkshire by 12 runs , and had ultimately to go in to get 123 to win, Yorkshire having declared their second innings at 134 for seven wickets . Therewasno time to get the runs, but Surrey saved the game mainly through Brockwell (32) and Hayward (19 not out ). Yorkshire , 135 and 134(7 wickets , innings declared ) ; total , 269. Surrey, 147 and 75 (6 wickets ) ; total, 222. Lohmann(1st innings Yorkshire) Hayward(Surrey) Overs. Maidens. R u n s. Wickets. 2 6 . 2 4 2 3 . 3 4 6 1 5 3 7 7 (4) Surreyv. Sussex. Oval, July 9, 10 and 11 . Amatchremarkable for changes . Going in first on an excellent wicket Sussex were all out for 116, of which young Killick , whocarried out his bat, was responsible for 57. But Surrey did even worse . Brockwell (17) and Abel (31),w h owent in first , did fairly well , but excepting Hayward(19)none of the rest could play Mr. Hartley's bowling , and the side were out in an hour and ahalf for 94. Surrey were in the field all the second day. Overnight Sussex hadmade75 for no wicket , and before the innings closed 316 had been added. Killick , whomade159 in the match for once out, again played admirable