THE ENGLISH ELEVEN V. NEW SOUTH WALES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 681, 26 March 1903, Page 16

THE ENGLISH ELEVEN V. NEW SOUTH WALES.

The team of English cricketers which have been touring the colonies, commenced a match against a Sydney eleven on Friday last. It had been raining heavily prior to the match, so that when Warner 1 won the toss he immediately decided to put his opponents in on the drying; wicket, the result, abundantly proving the soundness of his judgment. R. Duff and Trumper, the champion pair, opened to the bowling of Hargreaves and Trott, but neither did much, the first five wicket s going very cheaply, only thirty-five being on the board. Howell and Pye 'Knockedwip some runs very rapidly, the former hitissig one from Trott clean out of the ground. The Innings eventually closed for one hundred and forty-four. Trott, with six wickets for eighty-eight runs, did best of the bowlers. The wicket had improved greatly on Saturday, and the Englishmen were not slow to take advantage of the change. Dowson and Fane both showed fine attractive cricket, the pair taking the score to one hundred and nineteen for the thir wicket. Bosanquet as usual went in for some powerful hitting, a hundred runs being put on in ninety minutes. Directly the second century had been passed, Bosanquet made a mis-hit and was caught. Stunning and Thompson put on a lot of runs for the last wicket, the innings ultimately realising two hundred and eightytwO. Five bowlers were tried, Noble with five wicket? for seventy-eight coming out with the best average. Being in a minority of one hundred and thirty eight, Trumper and Duff resumed for Sydney, runs coming at a great pace from the outset. Bosanquet . effected a separation at seventy-two bowling Trumpet. With seven wickets down for one hundred and seventy-five the match looked a good thing for the Englishmen, but when Hopkins became associated with Duff a very different complexion was put on the game. Both batsmen piled up the runs at a great rate, and the field became de- ' moralised, helped in this respect no doubt by the hot wind which was blowing, and which the visitors were quite unaccustom-

ed to. The score had reached four hundred and eleven before a separation came, and eventually the innings closed for four hundred and sixty three. Duff hit twenty tourers, and Hopkins one more than that, the latter batsman taking two hours and 1 a-quarter io make his runs. I On Tuesday, the day on which the match should have been finished, steady rain set in, and eventually the game had to be abandoned. The Englishmen had thirty-two runs on for no wickets (Warner not out thirteen, and Burnup not out nineteen). They were thus left two hundred and ninety-three runs to get with all their wickets intact, so that the game was left in a most interesting stage. The following are the scores : — NEW BOUTS WALES —First Innings. R. Duff, c Bosanquet, b Trott ... ... 9 Trumper, c Dowson, b Trott ... ... 16 Noble, c Trott, b Hargreaves ... ... 4 W. Duff, c Johnston, b Trott ... ... 1 S. Gregory, lbw, b Trott ... ... 21 Hickson, b Trott ... ... ... 0 Hopkins, o Johnston, b Trott ... ... 23 Pye, not out ... ... ... ... 29 Kelly, b Thompson ... ... ... 12 Howell, c Bosanquet, b Dowson ... ... 20 Mcßeth, o Johnston, b Thompson .. 4 Extras ... ... ... ... 5 Total ... ... ... ... 144 BOWLING ANALYSIS. Hargreaves took one wicket for 32 runs. Trott, six for 88. Thompson, two for 16. Dowson, one for 3. ENGLISHMEN-—First Innings. Warner, lbw, b Noble ... ... ... 23 Burnup, b Mcßeath ... ... ... 8 Taylor, st Kelly, b Mcßeath ... ... 0 Fane, c Pye, b Noble ... ... ... 41 Dowson, cR. Duff, b Noble ... ... 86 Bosanquet, c Hickson, b Noble ... ... 52 Johnston, c Noble, b Mcßeath ... ... 12 Thompson, not out _ ... ... ... 30 Trott, c Pye, b Noble .. ... 5 Stanning, o Trumper, b Hopkins... ... 20 Hargreaves, o Kelly, b Hopkins ... ... 3 Extras ... ... ... ... 2 Total ... ... ... ... 282 IBDWLING ANALYSIS.] Howell, no wickets for 54 runs. Mcßeath, three for 73. Noble, five for 78. Hopkins, two for 37. Pye, nil tor 38. NEW SOUTH WALES—Second Innings. Trumper, b Bosanquet ... ... ... 37 W. Duff, b Bosanquet ... ... ... 9 Kelly, c Hargreaves, b Bosanquet ... 10 It. Duff, b Bosanquet ... ... ... 194 Mcßeath, c Hargreaves, b Bosanquet ... 1 Gregory, c Taylor, b Thompson ... ... 1 Noble, c Taylor, b ... ... 9 Hickson, b Thompson ... ... ... 14 Hopkins, lbw, b Burnup ... ... 133 Pye, not out ... ... ... ... 18 Howell, b Bosanquet ... ... ... 24 Extras ... ... ... ... 18 Total ... ... ... ... 463 BOWLING ANALYSIS. Bosanquet, six. wickets for 154 runs. Thompson, three for 104. . . Hargreaves, nil for 23. Trott, nil for 76. Dowson, nil for 49. Burnup, one for 39. ■ 0 S » R. J. Coates registered a fairly good performance on Saturday when playing for Gordon H. against the North Shore. Both teams were level on the first innings with seventy-five runs all. In the second innings North Shore were doing better when Coates was put on to bowl, and he captured five wickets for one run. Wanting ninety-four to win, Coates and Fairburn started out to hit off the runs, a proceeding which it took them less than forty-five minutes to accomplish, Coates being forty-nine not out, and his club mate forty-three, neither having given a chance.

The final tor the senior grade Championship in Wellington, on Saturday, gave riso to one of the most exciting matches ever seen on the ground. It was between Midland and Wellington, and the latter, with seven wickets to fall, only wanted eighty-nine runs to win. When the last two batsmen became associated eight runs were still wanted to save the match tor Wellington. Latham hit a three, and Hales got a pair of two's, and but one run wae wanted, and then, attempting the winning hit, was well caught. Midland thus won the game and the Championship by a single run.

The following are particulars of the three figure innings played for Lord Hawke’s team while touring this Colony. P. F. Warner 211 v. Otago, and 121 v. New Zealand ; F. L, Fane 124 v. New Zealand ; T. L, Taylor 105 v. South Island j E. M. Dowson 218 not out v. Wairarapa XXII. ; B. J. T. Bosanquet 136 v. Hawke’s Bay XV. The batting average in the eleven aside matches are furnished below. Warner heads the list with 67 28, and also made runs with 611. As rungetters Fane, Burnup, and, Taylor follow in that order. Warner played the following innings : 34, 16 43*, 57, 52, 211, 37, 7, 33, and 121, so that he was highly c'onsistant.

Ings. N.O. H.8. B. Avg. Warner 10 i 211 611 67.88 Fane 8 0 124 418 52.25 Burnup 10 1 69 374 41.55 Stanning 7 3 38 159 39.75 Taylor ... 8 0 105 302 37.75 Johnson 7 2 43 186 37.20 Thompson 8 2 80* 204 34.00 Bosanquet 8 0 82 144 18.00 Dowuon 7 0 36 111 15 85 Leathern 5 0 13 45 9 00 Whatman 6 1 13 29 580 Hargreave 6 0 14 27 4.50