CRICKET.

Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2341, 3 February 1873, Page 3

CRICKET.

THE ELEVEN V. THE EIGHTEEN.

The result of last Saturday's play proves that the Canterbury Eleven is a very powerful batting team. The total of their innings reached 296, a very large score with eighteen in the field. It is true that tbe fielding of some of the Eighteen was not quite up to mark, and that several chances were not taken, but on the other hand the fielding of 1 the Eighteen, as a whole, was very fair, and the chances that were missed were with perhaps two exceptions very difficult ones. The fielding form of the Eighteen, especially of Barnes, G. Turner, E. Cotterill, and Cooke, was very good. The bowling was rather weak, but we think that the large score of the Eleven is to be attributed more to the strength of the batting than the weakness of the bowling. The captain of the Eighteen, moreover, made several errors in judgment. Dickinson, in the first instance, was changed too soon, and Turner was kept on too loug. Reeder should have been put on much sooner, and it was a great mistake to change E. Cotterill from the lower end, and where he was bowling very well, and put him od against the wind. Had the field been better managed, there would perhaps have been a less number of runs scored by the Eleven, but in any case the probability is that the score of the Eleven would have been a heavy one. On Saturday last Fowler and Wontner, the not outs of the previous Saturday, resumed tbe batting, the scoTe standing at 89 with four wickets down. Both men soon got well set, and though the batting was at no time very severe, the runs gradually increased, notwithstanding that frequent changes were tried at both ends. At last Reeder who, as before remarked, should have beeu put on much sooner went on, and succeeded in getting Vvoutner's wicket, the score having been raised, since the fall of the last wicket, from 68 to 200. Wontner's innings was a very fine one throughout, without a chance. One of his hits to square leg, off Dickinson, went .past the pavilion ; it was one of the finest hits ever made on the ground. His 64 included three _'s, one 3 and eight 2's. Fowler's was the next wicket to fall. He was finely caught by Maples, who was fielding substitute at mid-on. His 92 against an Eighteen must be considered a very fine performance, and he throughout played in a fine free style and his defence was most powerful. He gave two chances, one on' each Saturday, which should have been taken, and one or two others which were very difficult ones, but on the whole his innings must be classed among the best performances with the bat that have ever been witnessed in Canterbury. Amongst his principai hits were two _'b, nine 3's, and seven 2's. Pierce, after making two hits one for 5 and one 4, was clean bowled—7 for 231. Ollivier and Souter now ran the score up to 280. The batting of tha latter was very fine, and he made his 30 runs in a remarkably short time. He had made two 4's, four 3's, three 2's, and four singles, when he was caught by Barnes. Moore made 7, and Morgan, who played as a substitute, did not score, Ollivier carrying out his bat for 28—a strong defensive innings. The match will not be continued, and is there- , fore drawn, it is unnecessary to say, much in favor of the Eleven. ] The following is the score :— j THE EIGHTEEN. A. C. Wilson, run out 0 F. J. Reeder, b Pierce 2 1 G. A. Reade, b Pierce ... 0 | G. D. Fraser, c Pierce, b Moore 5 C. Barker, c Pierce, b Moore 0 G. Dickinson, c and b Pierce ... ... 17 C. B. Cooke, b Moore 0 E. J. Cotterill, c Fowler, b Pierce ... 3 A. Cardale, b Moore 2 G. Lambert, b Moore 10 J. H. Miles, b Pierce 2 T. D. Condell, c Maples, b Pierce ... 0 G. Turner, b Pierce 0 A. Turner, b Moore 0 W. A. Barnes, b Moore 2 H. W. Beauford, b Moore 0 M. Donoghne, not ont 2 C. Brearley, c Maples, b Pierce 0 Byes, 3 ; leg-byes, 2 5 50 THE ELEVEN. J. Wood, cE. J. Cotterill, b Dickinson ... 7 A. J. Cotterill, h w, b Turner 33 E. P. Maples, 1 b w, b Dickinson 1 C. C. Corfe, b Dickinson 4 E. Fowler, c Subsitute, b Turner 92 G. Wontner, c Barnes, b Reeder... • ... 54 A. M. ©lliver, not out ... 28 W. Pierce, b Turner. 9 J. Souter, c Barnes, b Reade ... ... 30 T.R. Moore, c Cooke, b Barnes 7 F. Morgan, b Barnes 0 Byes 8, leg-byes 4, wides 19 31 296 ANALYSIS of the bowling. The Eighteen—Pierce 111 balls, 22 runs, 8 maidens, 8 wickets. Moore, 108 balls, 23 runs, 10 maidens, 8 wickets. The Eleven—Dickinson, 79 balls, 40 runs 3 wickets, 2 wides. G. Turner, 138 balls, 61 runs, 3 maidens, 3 wickets, 1 wide. E. Cotterill, 168 ball-, 54 runs, 6 maidens. Reade, 162 balls, 62 runs, 1 maiden, 1 wicket, 13 wides. Barnes, 60 balls, 30 runs, 2 wickets, 2 wides. Barker, 30 balis, 16 runs. Reeder, 12 balls, 2 runs, 1 wicket, 1 wide.