James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1898

2 3 4 L I L L YW H I T E ' SC R I C K E T E R SA N N U A L. C H A P T E R V I I I. T H EA V E R A G E S ( F I R TC L A S S ) O F1 8 9 7. 1 8 T H EB A T S M E N . WITHthe wickets mostly in favour of run-getting , the season of 1897 wasall in favour of batsmen. Still , in comparison with the summerof 1896, the figures on the whole were perhaps in somesmall degree disappointing . Abel was the only batsman able to reach an aggregate of 2,000 runs, and his record fell considerably short of that of Ranjitsinhji in 1896 , by a matter of 689 runs in fact . All the same, in some respects there wascause for congratulation in the figures of 1897. In addition to his score of 250 Abel got into three figures five times . Wainwright and Ranjitsinhji scored 100 also on five occasions ; Gunn, W. G. Grace, andG. L. Jessop on four ; Brown, G. Brann, Baker, Tyldesley , A. Ward, Bagshaw, W. G. Quaife , and N. F. Druce on three ; and 17 other batsmen twice . Thehighest score of the season in first -class cricket was J. T. Brown's 311for Yorkshirev. S u s s e x. Scorers of 2,000 Runs and over : A b e l I n n s. T i m e s n o to u t. 5 0 3 R u n s. 2 0 9 9 M o s tin a nI n n s. 2 5 0 A v e r a g e . 4 4 - 3 1 Scorers of1,000 and under 2,000 Runs: Quaife (W. G.) 2 8 6 1 0 2 7 1 7 8* 4 6 . 1 5 K. S. Ranjitsinhji 4 8 5 7 1 9 4 0 2 6 0 45.5 J. A .D i x o n 2 6 1 1 1 0 0 2 6 8 4 4 G u n n(W .) 3 2 3 1 2 6 6 2 3 0 43-19 Brown(J. T. ) 4 8 5 1 8 0 9 3 1 1 42.3 W .G . G r a c e 4 1 2 1 5 3 2 1 3 1 39-11 H a y w a r d 3 9 3 1 3 6 8 1 3 0 3 8 G .B r a n n 4 7 3 1 6 2 6 1 2 6 36.42 Wainwright 4 8 3 1 6 1 2 1 7 1 35-37 H i r s t 5 0 7 1 5 3 5 1 3 4 3 5 - 3 0 J. R .M a s o n 3 9 0 1 3 7 7 1 8 3 3 51 2 W a r d(A.) 4 9 6 1 7 6 6 1 6 2 34.14 D e n t o n B r o c k w e l l F .S. J a c k s o n B a k e r C. McGahey K .J. K e y Tyldesley Baldwin(Surrey) S u g g(F. H .) G .L . Jessop P .F. W a r n e r D a v i d s o n W .L. M u r d o c h W .N e w h a m 4 6 3 1 4 2 1 1 2 4 3 3 - 2 4 7 3 1 4 4 4 1 8 6 32.86 . . . 3 3 1 1 0 5 0 1 4 0 32-26 3 9 5 1 0 8 3 1 3 0* 3 1 . 2 9 3 5 2 1 0 1 7 1 7 4 30-27 4 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 3 4 30-11 3 7 3 1 0 2 3 1 2 2 2 9 . 1 4 4 8 2 1 3 7 4 1 4 1* 29.40 4 2 1 1 2 1 9 1 4 0 29.30 4 5 0 1 3 2 8 2 2 5 2 9 - 2 3 4 0 1 1 1 3 7 1 7 6 2 9 . 6 4 3 7 . . . 1 0 3 6 1 2 1 2 8 - 2 8 4 7 2 1 2 8 3 1 3 0 2 8 - 2 3 3 0 7 1 0 0 3 1 0 7 27:31 S t o r e r Tunnicliffe 4 2 3 1 0 7 3 1 6 0 27-28 5 2 5 1 2 3 5 1 4 7 2 6 - 1 3