James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Companion 1885

hour and tliirty-five minutes M*Donnell play ing one oi Ills most brillja-n*. innings. The victory was a most creditable one. Spofforth had tl2 greatest share in the success. He bowled his very best, taking ;u wickets for 185 runs, and played a capital innings of 49. M‘Donnell scored 20 and 67, Midwinter 49 (not out), Murdoch 14 and 36 (not out), and Giffen 34. For the Zingari, Mr. Forbes made 80 (a fine innings bar one chance) and 10, the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton 37 and 1, Mr. W. H. Patterson 10 and 26, and Mr. A. G. Steel 15 and 20. 1st Inns. 2ndInns. Total. Sept. 11, Australians 163 — 163* Oval. South of England • 56 102 158 Australians won by an innings and 5 runs. The last match of the Australian tour. Being so late in the season the full strength of the South could not be obtained, but the side contained some very good cricketers, and ought to have done much better. As it was, the Australians out-played their opponents at all points of- the game. As in so many of the previous matches, the main element of success was the bowling of Spofforth, who took in all 12 wickets for 77 runs, and in the second innings accomplished the “ hat trick,” dis­ missing Mr. W. G. Grace, Painter, and Maurice Read with successive balls. The wicket was never particularly easy, but it was not bad enough to excuse the poor batting of the Southerners. Palmer, in the first innings of the South, had a wonderful analysis—17 overs and 2 balls, 12 maidens, 10 runs, 5 wickets. Boyle, in the second, took 3 wickets for 20 rims. For the Australians, Giffen made 38, Bannerman 35, Bonnor 27, and Murdoch 23; while for the South, Mr. W. G. Grace made 24 and 26, Wood 8 (not out) and 19, Mr. H. Whitfeld 0 and 21, and Mr. T. C. O’Brien 15 and 7. .. THE TEAM, v - ... • , , WILLIAM LLOYD MURDOCH (New South Wales), Captain of the fourth Australian team, as he had been of the second and third, was born at Sandhurst, Victoria, 1855. It is scarcely necessary now to say much about the most famous of Australian batsmen. His reputation was established during the tour of 1880, and no other Australian bats­ man has yet reached his standard of excellence. During the tour of 1884 he was less consistently successful than in 1882, but that the falling off in liis play was only temporary was evident from his magnificent score of 211 in the match between England and Australia at Kennington Oval, lie again, as in 1880 and 1882, made more runs than any other player on the side, and again had the highest batting average. - V » i «■ * 9 t FREDERICK ROBERT SPOFFORTH (New South Wales) was born in Balmain, near Sydney, on the 9tli of September, 1855. In the .case of Spofforth, even less than in that of M urdoch , is it necessary to say anything in the way of eulogy. The great bowler’s reputation— established in one day at Lord’s in 1878—has never waned, and whatever rank may be accorded him in his own country, he has, in England, time after time, proved himself unapproachable. His value on a side was nevermore thoroughly and conclusively proved than in the pastyeai. There were very few notable victories achieved by the eleven in which he did not materially assist. His powers of endurance were unlimited, and at the end of the long series of thirty-two matches he was really bowling