James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1899

1 0 8 L I L L Y W H I T E ' SC R I C K E T E R S' A N N U A L. B O W L I N G A V E R A G E S . O v e r s. M d n s. R u n s. W k t s. A v e r a g e. J. T.H e a r n e 1 0 3 2 - 2 5 1 2 1 8 4 6 1 2 5 14.76 A .E .T r o t t 765.4 2 6 6 1 8 2 5 1 0 2 1 7 . 8 9 Mr.H. R. Bromley-Davenport. 4 1 1 2 9 6 4 2 4 M r .F. H .E. Cunliffe 229.4 8 2 5 3 9 1 8 2 9 . 9 4 R a w l i n 311.4 1 1 3 6 1 6 1 8 3 4 - 2 2 8. W e b b 2 0 0 4 8 5 6 5 1 6 35-31 Mr.C. M . Wells 6 6 2 5 1 1 8 3 39.33 A .E . Stoddart 6 2 . 1 1 5 1 4 9 2 74.50 Thefollowing bowled in two innings only :- M r. F. G. J. Ford, 26-8-64-3; Mr. B. J. T. Bosanquet, 14-6-36-0. Onceonly : Dr.G. Thornton, 7.3-3-14-0. Cunliffe delivered 12 no-balls andW e b b1. Cunliffe bowled 7 wides, Bromley-Daven- port 4, andTrott, Stoddart , andFord 1 each . N O T T I N G H A M S H I R E . OFFICERS FOR 1898.-President : Sir H. Bromley, Bart. Vice-President : G. M. Royle. Committee : H. A. Cursham, W. E. Denison, J. A. Dixon, T. Potter , Dr. H. Williams , A. Edwards , W. U. Hall , Capt . Tomason, Lord Belper , E. T. Hooley , J. Forman, C. W. Wright . Hon. Secretary and Treasurer : W. Wright , Wollaton . Secretary ; H. Turner , Lucerne House , W e s tBridgford. A t one time it really looked as if Notts had an outside chance of securing the Championship , as it were , by default . The first seven matches were drawn, andwhenthe eighth ended in a victory it dawned on everybody that there wasjust a possibility , if not a probability , that Notts might becomeChampions bythe mere fact of having the greatest proportional number of points in finished matches. To effect this a succession of drawngames would have sufficed . Fortunately such an anomalywas spared the cricket world . As it was, while they did not win again, another defeat reduced them con- siderably in position . Still , the fact remains that out of sixteen matches theydrewno less than thirteen . All the same, the cricket , on the whole, gave little cause for satisfaction . Shrewsbury and Gunnin their own styles played admirable cricket throughout . J. A. Dixon, the captain , was generally reliable , andA. O. Jones did useful service , if hardly as successful as in 1897. Other- wise the batting presented few features of interest , little of encouragement . O fthe bowling it can only be said that it was very far from deadly . Attewell kept up his end as well as , perhaps better , than in some recent years . After himthere was little or nothing of any real quality . To say the least of it the bowling was decidedly weak. Altogether the out -cricket was susceptible of considerable improvement.