John and James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Companion 1882

August 15, Brighton. Total, 3o0 349 let Inns. 2 nd Inns. Sussex 300 50 Derbyshire 171 178 Sussex won by 9 wickets. Barring the Hampshire matches, which are not included in the prese review, this was the solitary success that attended the Sussex tea^ during the season. The victory was principally due to good batting. ^ R. T . Ellis played a thoroughly sound innings o f 103, but at his seei^: attempt was clean bowled without scoring; Charlwood hit finely f0r J Mr. Greenfield made 18 and (not out) 25, and Mr. W . Blackman 27. j r ’ L . C. Docker made a great effort to save the game for Derbyshire, hittin? iu most brilliant style for 52 and 80. Mr. A . Shuker, with 15 and 45 his best assistant. In the first innings o f Sussex, Mr. II. Evans took g wickets for 60 runs, and in the second innings of Derbyshire, Lillywhite had 6 wickets for 49 runs. Aug. 2 2 , Brighton. Sussex Surrey Drawn. 1st Inns. 113 178 Sussex had lost 8 wickets. 2nd Inns. 96 105 Total. 209 283 Sep. 18, Brighton. 2nd Inns. 169 73 Total. 318 319 Bad weather interfered seriously with the game, and, at the finish, time robbed Surrey o f an almost certain victory, the home team, with only 2 wickets to fall, wanting no fewer than 75 runs to win. Mr. John Shuter was the mainstay of Surrey's batting. For once he played in his old and brilliant style, scoring 88 and 16. In the support accorded him there was nothing remarkable, though Morris Read and Jones opened the first innings by making 26 and 23 respectively. For Sussex, Mr. Greenfield made 9 and 46. Jones bowled uncommonly well, and took 9 Sussex wickets for 56 runs. 1st Inns. Sussex 149 Yorkshire 246 Yorkshire won by 6 wickets. But for some serious blunders in fielding, the Yorkshire men wonld have gained a far easier victory. On the concluding afternoon, if the catches had been held, Sussex could hardly have scored more than 100 . A ll the prominent members of the Northern team were successful. Ulyett scored 69 and 2 2 , E. Lockwood 43 and 24, Emmett 52 and 2 , and Bates 48 and 0 ; while Peate had a still larger share in winning the match, 14 wickets falling to him at a cost o f 130 runs. For Sussex, Charlwood played really good cricket for 58 (not out) and 37 ; Mr. Bettesworth made 32 and 59 (a very useful, but lucky innings), and Mr. W . Blackman 14 and 39. Matches played, 10—won 1, lost 8 , drawn 1. In batting it will be seen that Mr. Bettesworth heads the list. Mr. Ellis has fallen from 30.8 to 23.7, and Charlwood from 23.7 to 18.7. A most astonishing decline is to be noticed in Mr. Trevor. In 1880 he headed the averages with 32.4, but last season he could only make 13 runs in four innings. A ll his good cricket was played for Oxford University. The bowling figures call for little remark. Lillywhite did well at times, and suffered more than once from bad fielding. Mr. Sclater was away from England all the season, and his straight, if not very difficult, medium pace bowling was certainly missed. Messrs. Bettesworth and W. Blackman may do better in another year, and W . Payne is not altogether without promise-