CRICKET.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7398, 26 February 1902, Page 2

CRICKET.

ENGLISH TEAM v. VICTORIA.

Received February 25, 7.5 p.m. Melbourne, February 25. The Englishmen in their first innings made 293. Robson showed a disposition to put on runs, but could get no one to stop with him. Saundere,in attempting a difficult catch off Robson, feli, and fractured his right shoulder. Additional scores : — Englishmen. — First innings. Tyldesley, c Wood ford, b Layer ... 45 McGahey, c Armstrong, b Layer ... 34 Lilley. c and b Collins 1 Braund, c McMichael, b Collins ... 3 Robson, not out 17 Blythe, st Woodford, b Layer ... 0 Extras 15

Total 298 Collins took 5 wickets for 52, Layer 4 for 82, McLeod 1 for 48. The Victorians scored slowly at the commencement, the fielding being smart. Five wickets had fallen before the century waß reached, Stuckey being the only one to show anything like form. VicroEiANS. — Second Innings. Worrall, lbw, b Braund 8 Waine, c Braund, b McGahey ... 13 McAlister, c Maclaren, b McGahey 16 Armstrong, c Jones, b McGahey ... 28 Layer, c Jones, b Braund 23 McLeod. c Maclaren, b Blvthe ... 17 McMicbael, at Bobson, b Blythe ... 0 | Woodford, b Braund 15 Stuckey, c Braund, b Blythe ... 54 Collins, not out 4 Saunders, absent 0 Extras 4 Total 182 Braund took 3 wickets for 97, Blythe 3 for 23, McGahey 3 for 38. Bowling analysis is incomplete. The Englishmen, requiring 14 runs to win, got the number for the loss of two wickets. Englishmen.— Second Innings. Bobson, c McCormack, b Warne ... • 7 McGahey, run out 4 Jones, not out ... ... ... 0 Total for two wickets ... ... 14 The Bulletin speculates as to the future of the noble game :—": — " The knell of cricket as a white man's game will be sounded when a Parsee team from India has beaten the best elevens oi Australia and S'Africa. And the triumph of Banji's countrymen is bound to come. Lean, tricky, and abstemious, the darkies will make cricket such a game of skill as its beer-drinking founders never dreamed of. Already the Australians have got distinctly in front of the Britishers, and the S' Africans are said to be likely to beat the Australians. After them the Banjis. And then, perhaps, the Chows, who have imperturbability and patience, and are capable of dying of old age at the wickets for 100,000 not out. The Japs, are too diminutive to shine in any department of the game."