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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10522, 19 December 1901, Page 2

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Test Matches . - s- -"- ' Summarised. '

Since Lilly white V team met an Australian eleven- at Melbourne in "March; 1877, in all .57- test-matches have been played, 24 in England and .33 in Australia I . '.England has "had 27 and Australia -20, and 10 gatnes hive 6ee3 drawn. The Englishmenjiatura'lly Have been most successful on Home wickets, for in their own land they have won 12 games- and "lost only foar, whereas in the colonies they have been defeated 16 times, "and have- been victorious on., 15 occasions.' .. . . , *~ " The first ofjthe "international" .games was income ''respects the most remarkable of^all^fpr a- splendid batting performance -By, Cj. Bannerman, who- scored 163 i -enabfed s tk.e Australians £> r defest ffieutjformldabje -visitors. There hay<> \ begn.'i'everal exceptionally close and ex- ! citingyepflteßts.vln£l.?B2, for instance, i Murdochs second Australian team ,de- | feated England, at, Kensington Oval by i,7-,rn'ns. Even- closer .was ihe conclusion "mv the ~ match' at Sydney in 1885, '-bei tween Shaw's .team, and -an- Australian; 'eleven, the Englishmen' winning by 6. runs. Another exciting finish was pro- '„ vided hykthe-SydSieytmateh with- Shaw's third team in 1887, when the Englishmen won,l>y J3 "runs£ and afc-Sydney mr .Decemjber; 1894-, again. Stoddart's team .deleatea,.thea,'Ausfr«Tiaiw 4y runs7^ On the other hand, • the. .element ,of excitement has been! altogether absent from some of the matches. At Adelaide, in 1892, Lord Sheffield's team defeated ' the Australian i eleven* -by "an innings and 230 runs, and, almost severe wasthe defeat 'suffered by Scott's team at ' "the" Oval in 188S, when .tie Englishmen's margin was an -innings and\2l7 iruns. Maclafen's team in defeating the Australians' by an" innings arid 124 runsT .occupy .third place. , The biggest Aus•tralian yictory'wiis^ that. over -Stoddarfs , team in Sydney in 1895, by an innings and 14/f- runs., - '--; -.-. r, ;^ • The largest total for a single innings was 586, made by 'the Australians at •Sydney -in 18941 The beet English total, - '551, was made L alsb at Sydney, in 1897. ■ Singularly enough, the smallest totals on both sides were made on the Sydney ,gTound. In January,' 1887, the eleven Englishmen were dismissed for 45 runs; anoT in. February, 1888, an Australian innings produced only 42 rnns. -