THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS IN AUSTRALIA.

Evening Star, Issue 3406, 21 January 1874, Page 2

THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS IN AUSTRALIA.

< v: /- •: jHr - .v, • I ? g i^, cl ?, c^e^erß , ar ® faring rather badly of the Oolonlal •first,match they were shamefully beaterili one ?® cond .was' a'drajv, and l in the third they haVabeen beaten by a trial teain by ten prickets. TheStawell match was ccfidluded m two days, and the hhmbeir u of u Wickets lowered in the time 5 is; unparalleled in the history of .Australian cricket; The English first innings closed for the small score-of-j43. Stawell s twenty-two made 71. , The eleven in their second innipgs. made 91; leaving the trial team 64 to-get,.,which were obtained, with .the !°f 8 eleven:, wicket?.. G. . £ Grice 00, Southertoh 14, *nd Oscrbjt 13, were the highest and almost only " borers in the . second innings. Thei bowling of Cosstick and .Conway was ,tn a single‘Wiclmt match the six English/professionals 'imbr itortd 2,Stawell29. , ■ " . ... In the' Warnamhodl • the trial twenty- two. scored 6fi!in n tbair, * first innings, and riie eleven were dispoaed of;ior 104.7 Jupp splendid innings, of ~sß' (not out), G- Grace; ;18 ; .M'lntyre, : v Cfc- . croft; 6; while five of , England’s players were credited with a “ duck’s, egg, ” I tt their second. innings Warnambppl { scored 61, .when theeleyen won by nine wickets. ' ‘ . .The eleven play at Sydney next, and at' Melbourne again on Februaryl9.' ; j. / nJM‘ R l elb , ourne Argus’ of January s’siys; •*^ e “*/ England riatch ■at Ballarat has tenninated m a draw. The twenty-two kept the .■wickets during the whole of-Saturday.-end scored 276 against their opponents’ 470, W. H. iiggis contributing 53. The score of the Twenty-two beats that of the Victorian Efehteen m the international match by 10 runs Jbut. the Ballarat ground is ,a peculiarly easy one.to. make rum : pn., ‘‘ The All; England Eleven will visit Sandhurst/says the ‘Bendigo Independent, sooner than was at first'expected. The date of the match cannot bp definitely fixedr as it is to a great extent dependent dh the enwurements of the Eleven at Sydney. It is veryprobable, however; thp match"will be played im the middle of February instead of at the end of that moath.” /' V » ;. ••■. ,y ’