The Australian Eleven v. Eleven of All England.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1287, 28 September 1880, Page 3

The Australian Eleven v. Eleven of All England.

The match between the Australian Eleven and Eleven of All England waB commenced on the 6th September, on Kennington Oral in the presence of $0,000 people. The weather was aplenfltt

during the play. At the beginning of the match, the English were the favourites, and were backed at 2 to 1, owing to Spofforth not playing, in oonsequence of one of bis fingers having been broken in the matoh against 18 of Scarborough. The English captain won the toss, and decided to send his team to the wickets. A stand was made at once, and the wicket being true and fast, a large score was put together in spite of the efforts of the Australians, who fielded splendidly. "W. G. Grace played a grand innings, aud was in for four hours, giving only one chance when he had obtained over 100 runs. Shaw and Morley, the English professional bowlers, have yet to go in.

SECOND DAY. Owing to the rain which fell overnight, the wickets on the second day, were dead at starting, and the remaining English batsmen were soon disposed of, the innings terminating for a total of 420 runs. The Australians then went to the wickets, bat made only a mode ate stand, the innings closing for 149 runn, Boyle, Bannerman, and M'Donnel being the only batsmen who scored well. The Australians had to follow on, and in the second inniugs were more fortunate, the score standing at the close of the day at 1 70 run?, with 6 wiokets down. Murdoch scored 79 (not out), and on returning to the pavilion received a hearty greeting. M'Donnel scored 43, and waa then given ont, leg before wioket ; Blackham scored 19, and Bonner is not out with 13 to his credit. s The latter, who in their seo:md left off last night with a total of 170 for the loss of six wiokets, resumed their batting, Murdoch and Bonnor, who were not ont, again facing the bowling of the home Slayers. Bonnor was soon put out ; but lurdooh continued the splendid play which he showed yesterday, and added 74 more runs to the ccore. His total was 153 (not out), being the highest tcore on either side made during the match. Alexander played a careful steady inningd for 33, when he was caught out; and Moule also played well for 34. The other batsmen did not stand their ground long. The total number of runs made to-day was 157, and the grand total of the innings was 327*

THIRD DAY. This morning the weather was dull. The attendance was small at the outset, but the number of spectators rapidly increased upon the news spreading that the Australians were making a stand. When the team had tied the score of the All England Eleven, Murdoch received a perfect ovation. He was severely hurt when his score had reached nearly 100 runs, but after resting a few minutes he resumed batting amidst tremendous applause. Great excitement existed amongst the spectators during the second innings of the English team, when five wickets had fallen for only 31 runs, and the crowd to-day was perfectly enthusiastic towards *be Australians, all animosity being laid aside. The chairman of Surrey Cricket Cluo presented Murdoch with a bat, for his magnificent display at the wickets, and the team were entertained at luncheon for their grand innings. Lord Harris, at the conclusion of the match, called for three cheers for the Australians, which was heartly responded to, and his Lordship wished the Eleven a good Voyage The general impression is that if Spofforth had been able to play, the Australians might have won. The following are the scores :—: —

The English team then went in for their second innings, being 56 behind their opponents. This number was obtained with the loss of 5 wickets. The Auatraliaus thus lost the match by five wicket". The public interest in the match continued unabated to the end, and the number of spectators who witnessed the play to-day was rather greater than that on the two previous days. The weather was very fine throughout tho day. The Australian team take half the receipts of the match on the Oval, amounting to £1400, and the remainder goes to the Surrey Club. All tha newspapers highly compliment the Australians on their play, and hopes are expressed that another match will be arranged with tho All-England Eleven.

A correspondent writing to Messrs j Boyle and Scott, of Melbourne, on the doings of the Australian Eleven in England, supplies the following amusing gossip ;— " The remarks I heard in some instances were very amusing. One of the crowd said to his neighbour that it was not surprising the Australians fielded so well, as in Australia they got the natives to throw the ball at them, and to save themselves from being Btruck, caught the ball. Another fellow said the Australians had been playing together this last two years, and had dong nothing but practise all that lime on purpose to defeat the Englishmen. They called Spofforth the demon emu, and said that the reason he was such a good bowler was that he was an emu hunter, and made his living by catching emus, his mode of operation being to knock them over with balls made of wood, the same size as cricket balls. I enjoyed the conversation of the yokels muchly, but made no rewark. I may mention that the members of the Australian teom are much stouter than when -they left Victoria. Bonnor now weighs 17£ st. ,* I met an old gentleman, about 80 yeai/8 of age, who told me that he had seen all the best players this last 60 years, and he never saw a fielding l team like the Australians. The wicket- [ keeping of Black hnm he considers xnar- . Telloua. He said Paling, the Lancashire man was very good, but Blackham was I more than his master/

ALL ENGLAND. — IST INXIXOS.

AUSTRALIANS. -— IST INNINGS.