THE ALL-ENGLAND ELEVEN AT CASTLEMAINE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 119, 3 April 1862, Page 5

THE ALL-ENGLAND ELEVEN AT CASTLEMAINE.

To the Castlemaine Twenty-two alone belongs the Honor of having achieved ■ a victory over the redoubtable Eleven of All-England. We take following from the Mount Alexander Mail: — Subjoined will be found .111 outline of the three days' play which Twenty-two of our district indulged in with the All-England Eleven, representatives of cricketers of Old England. ' Contrary to general expectation, .victory fell to the Twenty-two. We have referred in another Column to the reasons assigned by the Eleven in explanation of their defeat, and need no{. go nvfh- tho ground tignm. These of our English reiiders, sv]io know something of oriclcot, will perceive from the scoro that there has been something beyond "bad ground" to explain the defeat of the re.loubtable Eleven. The pluckincss with which BDIH3 of our young cricketers stood up to the tremendous bowjing of Griffiths excited the admiration of tlic Captain of the Eleven, and lie is reported to have said that rather than face it so constantly as some of them did, he would pay a large amount of money. Mr. Jlakinson's body, forinsiance, presents a curious stucco-like appearance —the " white, red, and blue" marks from Ins shoulders to his shins presenting irrefragable evidenceof the punishment he had received. Mr.'.DrinkWater, also met with a severe blow in tho early part of the second innings. Indeed, there is hardly one of the Twenty-two who did not bring from the field some bodily indications of the vigor with which they had been assailed by their opponents. ' * ' The following is the statement of the respective scores: — . ■ All-England Eleven—First Innings, 80; second innings, 08. Total, 148. Castleuaihe Twenty-two.—First innings, 54 ; aecond inninga, 96. To^l, 150. . The Castlemaine winning by two runs, and having rpe wjeket* 1 0 fall,