THE ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10596, 10 November 1897, Page 5

THE ENGLISH CRICKET TEAM.

| VICTORIAN MATCH COM ED. I. '~ VISITORS ALL'OUT FOR 230. r '.{< SECOND INNINGS OF THE ' COLONIALS. \ '; : , '• , r f : '.V ! ' A CLOSE GAME. ! ' ' - Press Association..—K!ectrJcTeleKr^pb.—C«pyrtßlit. 7:.'Melbourne, November 9. Both the weather and the wicket again left nothing' to be desired when the match between England and Victoria ' was resumed to-day, and there was' a'" bumper" alton-

Hirst, who is a batsman of the resolute order, at 'once' became busy, but 1 after making a couple of threes 1 he dropped the ball •'into" Wofrail's" hands,' ; Storer,' the other English " nob,out," played sterling cricket, showing his power before as well as behind the stumps, but he coilld not get a partner ,to stay with him. Wainwright was run out just as he was getting nicely jib'work',.T: Vi' V The Victorian fielding' was i good, and Johns' wicket-keeping" was "exceptionally smart. • '" 1 " - J ! " • v ' 1 ' """" The Victorian sccond innings was marked with' caution', and before' they got fairly going Richardson declined an easy catch off his ' own' bowling from 'McLeod. ' Worrall played excellent and careful 'cricket." Graham put [a 'good deal of his old dash into his "play,; arid 'Harry scored with freedom. Quite an unexpected though welcome stand was made by the two not out men. , Hay ward was in great form with the ball, and has 5 oi)t of 9 wickets to his credit. Richardson took 2 wickets, and Hearne the remainder. » *! , ■' A curious incident occuvriod during the morning.'' 'Johns appealed for-a' catch aeainst Hearne off Trumble, and thinking the umpire gavo it 1 out,' threw the ball in the air, the batsmen stealing a run.' lb has been" decided to play the match out. The following are the scores';— Victoria.—First Innings ... 306 (? 300) .England.— Innings. McLaren' ... ... 26' Mason ; ... I.'. 36 Ranjitsinhji ' ... ■>. 13 Haywa'rd,'... ... 7 Stoddarb 1 ... ... ... ... .... 26 Druce"'', ... ... ... ' ... ... 13 Wainwright ', ... ... ... .« 13 Storer, not out ... ... .71 Hirst • ... 36 Hearne 2 Richardson... . ... ... ... 4 Sundries ... 3 Total,;.. ... .„ ... 250 , HOWLING ANALYSIS. Trott, 3 wickets for 52 runs. Trumblo, 4 wickets for 80 Vans. Roche, 2 wickets' for 60 runs! Bruce, O wickets for 4 runs. • ' McLeod, 0 wickets' for 17 runs. Giller, 0 wickets'for 34 runs. Victoria.—Second innings. Worrall '... ... ' ... ' ... 83 McLeod ... ... ... ... ... 14 Trott ... ... ... 12 Bruce ' ... ... ... . 5 Graham ... 25 Giller ... ... ... 2 Harry . , ... 50 Trqmble ... ... 3 Roche .., ... ... 0 McMichael, not onb ... ... ,« 20 Johns, nob out ... 17 Extras... 11 Total, nine wickets for , 242

- A GOOD SCORE. Sydney, November 9. . Playing for the first eleven against the next 15 Syd Gregory scored 143.

NOTES ON, THE TOUR.

Three out of every four of Ranjitsinbji's centuries have been obtained in the second innings of a match;' " ' r Mr. M'ostyn Evan, a prominent South Australian cricket official, made a level bet that Raujitsinhji would pass tho hundred on his first appearance in Australia.. "• lb. is a coincidence that when an English team last played against South Australia, Stoddart .was too ill: to take part in the game, That was in March, 1895. «On that occasion ' Phillipson assumed the captaincy, and the Englishmen made 609." J" 1 ' 1 The patting strength of. the English team was emphatically ' demonstrated in the [ South ' Australian ' match,' when the wicketkeepei'.. and. Hearno", during , their partnership of 102 for the eighth wicket, tied the South Australian bowling up. In fact, : every man on 1 the side,' excepting Richardson, is good for -'rune,' 1 As. for Richardson, lie has, in the words of Ranjitsinhji's book',." a most elementary idea of batting, " He may. be relied on' to get himself out." Ib is ' rather as' a' man and a bowler that Rarijibsinhji commends Mm. s . The fielding of the English .team is spoken of highly; and in this important respecb it seems to bo much better than the team of three years ago. - Certainly, there was plenty of room for improvement in nearly every part of the field. * • There was then nobody who could bo depended on to .take lightriing'catches off Richardson in the slips, and the wicket-keeping was altogether inferior. 7 But " this time there need bo no anxiety about the plips. ' Mason, for one, is compared to - Lohmann) in this position. fJ As for the wicket-keeping. Storer. has abundantly justified himself. " The Englishmen," says " Observer," of the Melbourne Argus, referring -to •' the match at Adelaide, "shouldnot have taken the field for 6 week. They were quite unfit," hp, odds, "to do, justice, to their English reputation!«'' Draco was; so ill that bp was unable to leave his room, I Ranjilaintiji was oufferlng, from asthma,-but played rather than disappoint the public,, while several others woro suffering from bad colds, which assumed almost an epidemic on the Ormuz towards the''end of th'd 'voyage, tho worst sufferers'' being' Richardson, Briggs, and Stoddarb." 1 ' •' "i '' ' , t '

" Rarijicsinliji, at point," says an Australian writer, "seemed,t? those who saw him , for . the first time, ' careless, standing with both .hands in hi? pockets, or his arms folded, and ; they, stay; thero until a ball comes, when ho drops on it with a catlike ease and elasticity very pretty to watch. Mason, in the slips' is, on the other hand,' a picture of alertness, and the few that came to him—very .few considering tho fast bowling—were .magnificently! taken. Mason is said to, resemble Trnmble f0r,,," iceberg coolness.": -1 ..... i ji. . 1 -

/■ There. are two other i members ■ of the English', team ; besides - Ranjitsinhji» who have scored two hundreds in a first-class match,' Tlioso are Stoddart, for Middlesex against Notts ; arid Storcr, for Derbyshire igiunsb Yorkshire. , The no-balling of Jones by Phillips on the ground of unfair delivery is important, ii]?smaoh'a3,P|uilißs' is to net as one of the umpires during the test matches. mi ■ -ii: