James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Companion 1884

52 T A B L E I I . Average number Average cost Yorkshire of Runs for each Wicket lost. ... 20758 in Runs of each Wicket obtained. 14-168 Relative Btatns. 1-465 Nottinghamshire 23-048 15-822 1-457 Lancashire ... ... ' 17-681 14-737 1-200 Middlesex 24-442 22-269 1-098 Surrey 20-814 20-084 1-036 Sussex... 16-332 19-962 •818 Kent ... 17-460 22-629 •772 Gloucestershire 17-751 28-417 •625 Derbyshire ... 13-797 ff 22-798 -605 I t w i l l be seen from the third column o f Table I I . that Yorkshire and Notts are very close together. In comparing these two counties, however, i t should be borne in mind that, whereas Yorksh ire played a ll of the Counties, Notts did not p lay matches w ith two of the weakest of them, viz., Kent and Derbyshire. In order to institute a perfectly fair comparison, therefore, i t w i l l be necessary to eliminate the results of the matches w ith these two Counties from the Yorkshire I totals. The two lead hig Counties would then stand in inverted order, Notts occupying the premier position, instead of Yorkshire « c r i i 1 v f , . ✓