James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Companion 1884

Au g 23, Oval. 2nd Inns. 234 240 Total. 316 315 1st Inns. Surrey ,. .. . . f 82 Lancash ire ’ . “ 75 Surrey won by 3 -wickets. 1 ' In more ways than one a sensational match. On the first day the spectators made so vigorous a protest against Crossland’s bowling, that at one tim e there was a chance o f Lancashire throw ing up the match Mr. Hornby was persuaded to go on, however, and the game came to a remarkable conclusion. Thanks to the wonderfu lly good batting of Harlow and Mr. Tay lo r , who scored 88 and 83 respectively, Lancashire set Surrey 234 to w in— a task wh ich Was gen era lly considered far too heavy. Seven w ickets were down for 122, and Lancashire’ s victory seemed assured. M r. K e y then joined Mr. R o ller , and between them the two gentlemen did one o f the biggest things o f the season. When they became partners 112 runs were wanted, and o f this number 56 had been obtained when stumps wev6 drawn on the F r iday evening. Resuming the innings on the fo l low in g morn ing the tw o batsmen scored the rema in ing 56 runs in 50 minutes, and so gained for Surrey a magnificent v ictory . The strong fee lin g against Crossland’ s bowling, o f course, intensified the pleasure that Surrey ’ s supporters wou ld at any time have fe lt at such performance. M r. K e y scored 60 (n o t out), and Mr. Roller 55 (not out). • 1st Inns. 2nd Inns. Total. Aug . 27, Surrey - 378 92 470 Oval. K en t - 299 112 411 Drawn. K en t had lost 5 wickets. The feature of the game was the tremendous stand -made by Mr. R o l le r and Abe l, who in Surrey ’ s first inn ings became partners when 7-wickets had fa llen fo r 186, and were not separated un t il the score had reached 368. Mr. R o l le r ’ s innings o f 142 surpassed everyth ing he had previously done fo r the county, and, despite tw o chances, was a most b r illian t display o f cricket. A b e l took out his bat for a patient and admirable 61. A ga in s t such a to ta l as 378 K en t appeared to have little chance, but so good was the batting that the “ fo l low on ” was just averted. George Hearne made 76, Lord Harris 41, the Hon. Iv o B ligh 35, Rev. R . T. Thorn top 32, Collins 23, and W ootton 18 (n o t ou t). On the third day the character of the game com p lete ly changed, and the Surrey men were dismissed for 92, the on ly batsman to o ffer any resistance to Mr. Christopherson’ s bow ling being Mr. K ey , who scored 41. K en t had not time to make the runs requ ired to win, and the draw was a pretty even one. In Surrey ’ s second inn ings M r. Christopherson took 8 wickets for 41 runs, but the state o f the ground gave h im some assistance. Aug . 30, Oval. Total. 461 460 1st Inns. 2nd Inns. Surrey 339 122 Derbyshire 160 300 , ' Surrey won by 6 w ickets. A f t e r hav in g an apparently hopeless game the Derbyshire eleven played up in remarkab le fashion, and on ly lost the match after a hard fight. In the second innings o f Derbyshire the fifth w icket fe l l at 78, and thus 101 runs were requ ired to ave r t a single innings defeat. The last few batsmen, however, although the l ig h t wras te rr ib ly bad, gave a tremendous amount o f trouble. Mr. W . W . Evershed made 92 in less than an hour and a ha lf. M r. M aynard scored 84, Cropper 51, *