James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1898

C R I C K E TR E C O R D S . 1 3 BESTSTANDS FOR LAST WICKETIN A FIRST- CLASS MATCH. -173, Briggs (186) and Pilling (61 not out ), Lancashire v. Surrey , at Liverpool , July 17, 1885 ; 157, Parnham (90 not out) and White (62), North v. South , at Lord's , June 14, 1886 ; 149 , Lohmann (105) and Sharpe (38 not out), Surrey v. Essex, at the Oval , May20, 1889 ; 138 , A. J. Webbe(89 not out) and Hearne (J. T. ) (65) , Middlesex v. Kent, at Lord's , August30, 1895 (one manabsent , so the runs were really made for the ninth wicket ) . [NOTE : Hirst ( 115 not out) and Moorhouse (59 not out) added 176 for the ninth wicket (innings declared closed ) for Yorkshire v. Gloucestershire , at Clifton , August 21 , 1894. ] Best in Australia : 136 , J. O'Halloran (128 not out ) and A. E. Johns (57 ), 5 Victoria v. South Australia , at Melbourne , January 1, 1897 ; 100 , G. E. Palmer (76 not out) and W. H. Cooper , Victoria v. New South Wales , at Sydney , February , 1882. [Note . Inany match the record is 337 , Dr. A. W. T. Daniell (180 not out) and Dr. C. D. Hamilton (101 not out ), Dr. Daniell's X I. v. WesthamWanderers, August 8, 1895 . A SEVERE DEFEAT .-Surreyurrey beat Sussex , at the Oval , August 11 , 1888 , by an innings and 485 runs ; Shrewsbury's XI. beat Victoria , at Melbourne , December 19, 1887, by an innings and 456 runs ; Lancashire beat Somerset , at Taunton, July 17, 1895 , by an innings and 452 runs ; Not- tinghamshire beat Sussex , at Nottingham , May 16, 1895 , by an innings and 378 runs ; Surrey heat Oxford University , at the Oval , June 26, 1889 , by an innings and 367 runs ; the Australians beat Sussex , at Brighton , May 19, 1882 , by an innings and 355 runs ; Lancashire beat Kent, July 13, 1892 , by an innings and 330 runs ; Yorkshire , with five wickets down, beat Sussex , at Sheffield , July 12, 1897 , by an innings and 307 runs ; Surrey beat Hampshire , at the Oval , August 9, 1897 , by an innings and 303 runs; and Yorkshire beat Leicestershire , at Leicester , June 20, 1896 , by aninnings and 302 runs . FIVE INDIVIDUAL CENTURIES IN ONEINNINGS.-Paddington v. Burwood, at Sydney , December 21 , 1895 : A. C. Mackenzie , 155 ; A. C. Bannerman , 122; A. Noble, 113 ; R. Alderson (retired ) 113 ; J. J. Kelly, not out, 106 ; Paddington scored 726 for 4 wickets . FOURINDIVIDUAL CENTURIES IN ONE INNINGS.- IZingari v. Bullingdon , at Bullingdon, June 15, 1886 : L. K. Jarvis , 152 ; Lord Dalkeith , 120 ; H. W . Forster , 107 ; Lord George Scott , 100 .--Thornburyv. Wootton-under- Edge, at Thornbury, June 18, 1888 : C. J. Robinson. 199 ; E. M. Grace, 145 ; T. Robinson , 128 ; A. H. Grace , 104.-A. P. Lucas ' XI. v. Free Foresters , at Chelmsford , August 12, 1892 : F. A. Phillips , 120 ; H. М. Taberer, 114 ; L. H. Gay, 112 ; F. E. Rowe, 107 not out.-Yorkshirev. Warwickshire , at Birmingham , May 7, 1896 : Peel , 210 not out ; Lord Hawke, 166 ; Wainwright, 126 ; F. S. Jackson, 117 . THREE INDIVIDUAL CENTURIES IN AN INNINGS, FIRST CLASS MATCHES ONLY.-NewSouth Wales v. Victoria , at Sydney , February , 1882 : W. L. Murdoch, 321 ; T. W. Garrett , 163 ; S. P. Jones , 109. -M.C.C. and Ground v. Australians , at Lord's , May22, 1884 : A. G. Steel , 134 ; Barnes , 105 not out ; Dr. W. G. Grace , 101. -Yorkshire v. Cambridge University , at Cambridge , May 27 , 1884 : Bates , 133 ; Hall , 116 ; Grimshaw, 115. — Australia v. England , at the Oval , August 11 , 1884 : W. L. Murdoch, 211 ; P. S. M'Donnell , 103 ; H. J. H. Scott , 102.-Non-Smokers v. Smokers , at East Melbourne , March 17, 1887 : Shrewsbury , 236 ; Gunn, 150 ; Bruce , 131.-Yorkshire v. Kent, at Canterbury , August 1, 1887 : Ulyett , 124 ; Lee, 119 ; Hall , 110.-Nottinghamshire v. Sussex , at Nottingham , August