CRICKET.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 8024, 17 January 1895, Page 2

CRICKET.

ENGLAND V. AUSTRALIA.

By Gable Press Association.]

Adelaide, January 16. Stoddart made one of the biggest hits yesterday ever seen on the ground, the ball falling close to the edge of. the asphalt in front of;the scoring board, overy inch of a hundred, and twenty yards fromjfthewicket. If it had only landed oiathe asphalt he would have accomplice,l a feat never achieved from the centrq,. ground. , , .l' ; When Trott caught Richardson it was the work of a second to transfer the ball from his hands to his pocket, with the remark, ".That's worth keeping.'./:. It is® not too much to say that Trott'sJjowling wasalmost unplayable. None of the batsmen from the beginning were easy when facing him, and he not only varied pace with rave judgement, but never? once lost his length. Never since; Palmer in 1879 took nine wickets for 99 againßt Lord Harris' Eleven has an Australian colt, bowled with such aston'nhing success against an English eleven, and no young player either English or Austra v i,n ever played in a 'test • match so sensational. \ v

Sir W. Clarke, President of the East Melbourne Club, wired :' "Tell Albert I'll give lr'n a guinea: fot* every wicket ho takes" Speaking to A. Trott, Stoddart said he had been beaten nob by the wicket nor by luck, but by the best all round cricket. He heartily, congratulated Trott on his success. t - PKESS OPINIONS.

- Melbourne, January 16. " OL erver" in the Argus says-that the batting of the Englishmen in the third test match was very disappointing, md there was nothing inihe I wicket to get rid of them so cheaply. One factor in the failure he states was the marvellous succession of catches the 'Australians brought off, and in this respect rivalled the beat traditions of Australian cricket. [Referring to the latter Blackham averted that in. all his experience he never saw such a exhibition. -■?

"Mid-on"iii the Leader says tbafc the poor performance of mencan only to accepted ? as one of those 3 inexplicable disappointments which' will crop up at times so long as. cricket last, and that any attempted explanation must be fallacious and misleading. -

London, January 12. The evening papers felicitate tbe Australians on their victory over tbo Englishmen. The'.Pall Mall.Gazette' says, it is evident that the elevens are evenly matched. /•