CRICKET IN ENGLAND

Evening Star, Issue 18334, 23 July 1923, Page 4

CRICKET IN ENGLAND

GENTLEMEN v. PLAYERS. LONDON, July 20. Tho Players, who had four wickets down for 119, were disposed of for 228. They hatted very cautiously. At one period Hearno and Smith scored only 35 in an hour. In their second innings the Players lost one wicket for 190. The game was drawn. Scores : Gentlemen. First innings (declared for nine wickets) „. 451 Platers.—-First Innings. Sutcliffe lb Gilligan ... ... .„ ... 3 Hobbs Ibw b Louden ... ... ... 6 Meade c Lynn b Stevens ... 35 Hcndren b Fender _. ._. 3 Hearne - ... 69 Woolley c Gilligan b White ... ... 41 Smith c Fender b Louden ... „ 28 Kilner c White h Stevens ... ... ... 8 Parkin ... .„ „ ... ... 6 Extras _ _ ... 13 Total ... ... - ... 228 [Only ton names are given, which probably accounts for tho total not working out correctly.] Louden took five wickets for 49. • Second Innings. Hobbs c Lowry b Stevens ... ... 20 Hearno not out ... 79 Suicliffo not out ... Extras 13 Total for one wicket ... ISO COUNTY MATCHES. Yorkshire 376 beat Leicester 71 (Waddington four wickets for 25) and 132. Kent 180 and 233 boat Somerset 195 (Freeman seven wickets for 37) and 145. Sussex 259 and 159 drew with Notts 294. Lancashire 247 and 29 for no wickets beat Northn.nts 174 and 201. The following aro the points of the loading teams in tho county championship ; Yorkshire Notts - 87.64 Surrey 63.75 Sussex ~. ••• v- 61.71 Kent ... ... 61.11 Hampshire 60 Lancashire 58.80 WEST INDIAN TEAM. An interesting feature of tho season in the tour of a team from the West Indies, including several blacks, who have displayed surprisingly good form hitherto. They have played seventeen matches and won"eight, including those against Sussex, Essex, and Warwickshire; lost four, against Cambridge, Hampshire, Middlesex, and Lancashire; and drawn five, including those against Marylebone, Notts, and Leicestershire. G. Ohalloncr occupies eighth place in tho first class averages with an average of 44.30, and Fernandez is fifteenth with 40.6. Francis is sixteenth in the bowling averages with fortvnino wickets at an average cost of 16.07 runs.—A. and N.Z. Cable.