CRICKET

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 8347, 28 March 1888, Page 5

CRICKET

CANTERBURY v. THE ENGLISH ELEVEN. (PER press association.) Christchurch, March 27. Heavy rain on Mouda'y night rendered tha wicket greatly in favor of the bowlers, and the remaining Canterbury batsmen found it very difficult to negotiate Briggs’ deliveries, ho securing the remainder ot the wickets at a very small cost. i’>ay was resumed at 11.50 to-day by Fowke aud Macdonald, not outs of yesterday, appearing to face the buwling of Lohmann and Briggs. The weather was still cold, aud at iirst more pleasant than that of the previous day, hut the attend,'lice was very meagre. Just before lunch a south-west storm came up and spodt everything. Lohmann opened from the north end by sending down a maiden to Fowke, but Macdonald played bis fourth ball from Briggs very softly into Braun's hands at caver - point. The eleventh wicket fell for 126, the last man’s score being 3. Dunlop filled the vacancy, and Lohmann bowled a maiden to Fowke. Another maiden from each end and Dunlop opened with a couple of risky singles. Two overs later Dunlop got the lefthander to the rails for 3. Smarty run single t > Fowke, who broke a succession of maidens, and the same batsman repeated the perf irmanco in the next over. Both bitsm.n seemed puzzled by Briggs, and after another' period of slow play' Fowke fell a victim to the Lancashire bowler; 123—12—5 Halley succeeded, but succumbed to the third ball he received from Briggs, and the remaining ball of the over dismissed Ogier. K. M at bias joined Dunlop, j su-d enlivened the somewhat monotonous proceedings by driving Lohmann to the off for 2. Mathias took a maiden from Briggs, and soon after hit one from Briggs high up to off and ran a couple, but in attempting to ro. peat the performance was bowled; 139—15—2Cuff followed, aud created a diversion by driving his first ball from Briggs to the rails for 3. Batsmen were now introducing S Jittie vigor into the game, but tho field

made no mistakes, and Dunlop only managed to add a single before Caff was taken by Braun at cover point ; 140—16—3. W. Frith, the last man, went to the assistance of Dnnlop, bat his sojourn had only extended over a oonole of overs when he fell another victim to Briggs, and the Canterbury innings closed at 12.40 for 145 runs. Dunlop had played very good cricket upon a difficult wicket for 12 runs, not ent, and seemed the only man able to look at Briggs’ bowling. At 12.55 the Canterbury team took the field, and were at once followed by Read and Shrewsbury. Dunlop commenced by bowling a maiden to Read, Halley took up the attack from the other end, and sent down a maiden to Shrewsbury. A mistake in_ the field enabled Read to open the score with a single in Dunlop’s next, and Shrewsbury followed with 2. In Halley’s next Shrewsbury got under the break at the back, and was easily secured by Frith at shoit-leg. Four runs only had then been scored, of which Shrewsbury had made 2. Ulyect followed, and at once got Dunlop to leg for 3. A couple of singles were added by Read before he hit Dunlop hard to the on for 4. Ulyett skied Halley to the off, but no one was there, snd a single resulted ; and Read brought 20 up by cutting Dunlop for*3. Both batsmen were now scoring freely, placing the ball with wonderful judgment, and with 30 up, Frith relieved Dunlop. Frith commenced very short, and was roughly bandied by both players. Wilding took the ball from Halley, and Frith got a better length, while the fielding, which had been.a little loose during the first quarter of an hour, improved. At half-past 1 an adjournment was made for lunch. The cold weather seemed to materially affect the Canterbury bowlers, as each _ man tried was very short in his delivery, and gave the batsmen very little trouble. During the luncheon adjournment a heavy and continuous storm swept over the ground, and as, after an hour or two of waiting, the weather showed no sign of improvement the game was abandoned for the day. The wicket is now in a thoroughly sodden condition, and although arrangements were made for continuing the game at 11 o’clock to-morrow it is very doubtful if any good cricket can be shown in the latter part of the game. The following are the scores : Canterbury. —First innings. Crawshaw, c Shrewsbury, b Smith ... 39 Studholme, c Briggs, b Lohmann ... 4 Barnes, c Lohmann, b Smith 39 Mathias, b Preston 1 W. P. Reeves, b Briggs 13 H. W. Reeves, b Smith 0 Harman, b Briggs 7 Wilding, c and b Lohmann ... ... 0 Garrard, c Smith, b Lohmann 5 Labatt, c Smith, b Lohmann 3 Fowke, b Briggs ..._ ... ... ••• 5 McDonald, c Braun, bßriggs ... ... 3 Dunlop, not out 12 Halley, b Briggs 0 Ogier, b Briggs 0 11 Mathias, b Briggs ... 2 Cuff, c Braun, b Briggs 3 W. Frith, b Briggs ... 0 Extras... ... ... ... ... 18 Total 145 Bowling analysis—Lohmann, 188 balls, 39 runs, 28 maidens, 4 wickets ; Briggs, 199 balls, 39 runs, 32 maidens, 9 wickets; Smith, 88 balls, 25 runs, 10 maidens, 3 wickets; Preston, 100 balls, 24 runs, 14 maidens, 1 wicket. Lilly white’s Eleven, - First innings. Read, not out ... ... ... ••• 25 Shrewsbury, c Frith, b Halley ... ... 2 Ulyett, not out 16 Extras . ... ••• 1

Total for one wicket... ... ... 44