Lives in Cricket No 21 - Walter Read

55 extended over four hours, resulting in an addition of 305 runs to the score…the only mistake in Read’s fine innings of 247 – the highest he has made for the county – being a chance in the long field at 82. 101 Then, he came within three of that score against Cambridge University at The Oval the following week, on Jubilee Day before he ran out of partners in yet another innings victory. His innings was not finished until the total had been raised to 543 of which number W W Read, who carried out his bat contributed no less than 244. This performance was a more remarkable one following as it did his score of 247 at Manchester last Friday, and we believe two successive innings of over two hundred in important matches are without parallel. He was batting altogether five hours and twenty minutes and with the exception of one chance when he had made 186 there was no mistake in an extraordinary display of cricket. 102 Wisden , however, is slightly less complimentary, suggesting that 101 Cricket 23 June 1887 102 Cricket 23 June 1887 Surrey and England 1881/87 The Surrey team of 1887 [Surrey County Cricket Club]