CRICKET

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VII, Issue 352, 22 April 1897, Page 12

CRICKET

[By

Stonewaller.]

There has been some remarkable tall scoring in Melbourne this season. At the beginning of the month the M.C.C. made 702 against the Wimmera. T. Trumble slammed the bowling about to the tune of 157, of which 64 were made by fours. Blackham knocked up 153, including 21 fours, and Leith was 106 (not out). The last-named batsman hit 3 fives and 11 fours. From one of his strokes the ball bounced off the asphalt, through a large window in the kitchen of the pavilion, and another time the leather just missed going through a window in the press box, but as Joe Taylor was there waiting for it no further damage would have been done. Fry also made things “hum” when making his 68, for in that total there were 13 fours. The Collegians against an M.C.C. team trotted up 750 runs, the principal scorers being Stewart, 311, and Dinsmore, 174, or a total of 485 between them. In a match against Malvern East Melbourne piled up the runs at an astonishing rate. In the first thirty minutes’ play 100 runs had been made, and in 90 minntes the total had been carried to 293 for the loss of three wickets. Vautin made 118, including one 6, three s’s, and sixteen 4’s. J. Harry made 115 (not out), including a 5 and twelve 4’s. The veteran Boyle, who has returned to Melbourne, totted up 44, including six boundary hits. Fast as this rate of run-getting was, it has once been beaten in Melbourne, an M.C.C. team on the 13th February., 1894, having made 291 runs in 75 minutes.