CRICKET

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume X, Issue 521, 19 July 1900, Page 7

CRICKET

[By

Stonewaller]

In Chats on the Oriclcet Field (“ Cricket ”) the following occurs concerning Robert Peel: —“So many brilliant performances have been done by Peel that it would be hard to say which was the best. He would himself, perhaps, place first his six wickets for 23 runs in the third and final match between Australia and England at the Oval 5 id 1896. Of this match he says : ‘ Ibie Australians, with nearly all the third day before them had to make 111 runs. I went down to the nets to have a little praet ce; and bowled a few balls to Mr Jackson. On our way back he asked me what I thought about the result, and seemed quite surprised when I said that if the bowling was managed all right they would not gAt the runs. In the pavilion Lord Sheffield said to Sb aw : “ They can’t help getting the runs without any difficulty at all,” to which Alfred replied : “Well, they’re going to get 75, un<ss soma awful mistake ij mide ab)ut the bowling —you’ll see.” Richardson began with a maiden, and Jack Hearne bowled at the other end, getting Joe Darling in the first over. After his first over, Richardson, not being able to get a foothold, was taken off, and I took his place. Jack Hearne took the next two wickets, the text sii fell to me, and the last to him They only made 44 runs. It was the biggest match I ever played in during my career, and it was exciting to the ast, for anyone might have khOcked up rune qu’ jdy.*” □.n the match at Cambridge, Cambridge University v M. 0.0. and Ground, the Club scored 213 in its first innings, and the “ light blues ” 285. In the Marylebone second innings, with the ecore at 64 for two wickets, Mr L T. Driffield, a freshman, from St John’s School, Leatherhead, in seven overs to?k seven wickets for eeven runs. The innings closed for 102, leaving Cambridge 31 to get to win, which they did without the loss of a wicket. Driffield is one of the most promising of young English amateurs. Playing for his school last year his averages were : — Batting : Innings 24, runs 910, most in innings 167 not out, times not out 6, average 50‘55. Bowling : Overs 407. maidens 101, runs 1041, wickets 97, average 10 73. In the Cambridge match Mr Driffield went in last and made 4 not out.