CRICKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 2303, 21 April 1898, Page 35

CRICKET.

ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. G., Hyde. — The English cricket team won the first of the test matches played in Australia on the occasion of their recent visit. NOTES BY SLIP. H. Trumble and H. Graham, plsying for the Melbourne Club sgmist North Melbourne, were aFsociated while 325 runs were pus on for the third wicket. Tiu-nble made 180 s.nd Graham 145, their combined totals, singularly enough, being the exact, number that the partnership realised. The li&t of players who have done service ■for Otago in representative matches, as published elsewhere, is, I believe, a complete one. It may be that mistakes have been made in some cf the names of the players in the early days, for the published reports of the matches then are sparing in the matter of initials, but I have checked the list as carefully as possible, and I fancy that it will be difficult to flad blunders in it. If any old player cau pick out mistakes I shall be obliged to him if he will let me know of them. I ought to say that I have excluded from the list the names of those who played for the Dunedin and Suburban Association against Auckland in 1882, and also the names of those who formed an O'ago eleven to play Auckland at Ghristcburch in 1884. W. Broclcvell, now in India, whilst plsying against the Parsecs recently mad© 160. He Imd been laid up with fever for a short time. A record score for Capetown was mads en January 22, when the Western Province Eleven compiled 470 against the Garrison. The EDglish players, Holland with 150 and Lees with 113, were the chief scorew. It is understood on the other side that MBj'or Ward ill has fu ked Frinca Ranjitsinjhi to captain the nest E"glish team to visit the colonies, and that the latter has promised to cable his decision from Coloncbs. But whatg if the Marylebone Club undertakes the arrangements in connection wilh the visit ?

Particulars of a splendid all-round performance by A. E. Trott have been forwarded to the Sydney Referee. Playing for Pretoria against Wanderers at Pretoria he made 59 out of 165, A. B. Tancred also gettiDg 54. George Lohm<mn captured four for 43 and J. Sinclair three fcr 69. The Wanderers made 82, Trott taking tfce whole ten wickets fcr 22 runs. Six of ihe victims were bowled and one lbw, the half-duzm including Lohmaun, who made 4. The match was won on the first inning 3by Pretoria, but the Wanderers atoned somewhat in the second innings by ecoring 163 for eight wickets, L ohm arm compiling 72. 'Xroit secured two for 49.

V. Trumper, playing for P&ddington against Leichardt on the 2nd iust , scored 162 not out.

His scoriug in club cricket this closing season has been phenomenal, aa he is credited with 1021 runs for eigbt innings, three of which were unfinished, so that he has an average of 204- -20 runs per innings. His scores speak for themselves : 82, 123, 125, 85, 120*, 191*. 133, and 162*. He has established the following records in Sydney Premiership cricket-: — Greatest number of centuries in a season, greatest aggregate, greatest average from consecutive centuries.

The final matth of the South Otago Cricket Association's Shield contest for 1897-98 was won by Clinton by 26 runs on a single innings in a match <nith Lovell's Flat, M'Cracken scoring 38 for the winners. A match North End v. South End of the South Otago diettict, played on Easter Monday, was won by the fcrmer.