James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Companion 1885

110 1st Inn s . 2nd Inns . Aug. 14, Gravesend. Kent , 20o Yorkshire ' 338 Yorkshire won by 10 wickets. 137 6 Total. 342 314 3Ir. Mac-kinnon played a splendid first innings of 102 for Kent, and «■ * 'I A a i 1 - ____ A . X I ^ 4 V \ I A % • A"V ■ ifVAV,^X vV* v v-nv ••^ ^ men, Lord Harris (32 and 30) anything worthy of note. Eight Yorkshiremep reached double figures, the feature of the innings being a vigorously hit 97 by Bates. Snowden scored 37, Ulyett 37, Grimshaw 35, and Peel 31. In Kent’s first innings Peate took 8 wickets for 63 runs—a very fine performance on hard o-round. Wootton and A. Hearne were the most successful Kent bowlers, the former taking 5 wickets for 93 runs and the latter 4 for 92 runs. Aug. 18, Gravesend. ' - 1st Inns . Kent * fcl v i i 243 Derbyshire • 52 Kent won by an innings and 9 runs 2nd Inns . 18: Total. 243 234 2nd Inns . 123 - 87 . Total. 323 327 / ^ , i . Lord Harris’s batting and the bowling of A. Hearne and Wootton combined to gain for Kent an easy victory. The Kent captain made 112 in his best style—the innings being only marred by a chance when he had scored 58—and the two bowlers took between them 14 wickets. Derbyshire’s chance was quite hopeless after the side had been dismissed for a total of 52, but at the second attempt several men showed good cricket, Sugg’s 61 being an especially fine display. Chatterton made 42 (not out), and Cropper 39. ’ i : - j j r , . . 1st Inn s . Aug. 21, Kent • . (jr7 r -;, - . ) ,200 Maidstone. Lancashire ; », f 240 Lancashire won by 8 wickets. a ■ p > f * i ^ • r . • > | t r k . f / # j . * » • # I ^ # 1 Lancashire’s decisive victory was chiefly due to the brilliant batting of Mr. H. B. Steel and Bev, V. F. Boyle, who scored respectively 77 and 79 (not out), and the all round play of Mr. A. G. Steel, who made 31 and 36 (not out), and took in all 8 wickets—6 falling to him in the second innings for 31 runs. The most successful batsmen for Kent were, Lord Harris (32 and 34), Mr. W. H. Patterson (23 and 37), Mr. Mac- kintion (41 and 13), and George Hearne (42 and 2). Kent’s batting in the second innings was indifferent. % / , 4 r + 99 . • t • ^ I ' 4 m Sept. 1.—Oval,—Kent v. Surrey ^ (fiee Surrey Review.) • n Matches played, 12—Avon 4, lost 6, drawn 2. dm { Lord Harris’s hatting average is even better than in 1883, having gone up from 42.11 to 44.9. Mr. Patterson has advanced from 14.4 to 28.6, but, on the other hand, the Bev. B. T\ Thornton has declined from 29.3 to 11.4. Except when Lord Harris made a long score, the batting of the team was not formidable. Wootton made a great improvement as a bowler, taking 79 wickets as against 37 in 1883, and having an average oi 15.9 instead of 19.36. Mr. Christopherson, though he often bowled well, was far more freety punished than in the previous year.