THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS IN AUSTRALIA.

Evening Star, Issue 3421, 7 February 1874, Page 2

THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS IN AUSTRALIA.

England v. Eighteen New South Wales was played on the Albert ground, Sydney, on January 24, 26, and 27. The weather was fine on the first day, when 12,000 persons were on the ground. England went to the wickets first, W. G. Grace and Jupp facing the bowling of Coates and Tindall. The leviathan was nearly caught at square leg before he had scored at all. As it was, he went out for 7. Indeed the wickets fell prety fast,t as the score shows I—7 14; 2- 8-20; 3-0—20; 4-8-47; 5 -25-54; 6- ; 7-10-66 ; 8-8-85; 9-20-89; 10—1 —92. Greenwood played a splendid innings of 25 without giving a single chance. The Welshmen’s wickets fell thus:—l—lß —3l ; 2-o—3l ; 3-2-36 ; 4-2-51 : 5 1-52 ; 6-32-59; 7-3-63; 8-4-64, at which point the stumps were drawn for the day. I). Gregory, after playing a fine innings for 32, was stumped by Bush off Grace’s bowling. During the whole of his innings he only gave one chance, and that to vSoutherton, which was missed. The bowling andjfielding on both sides were very good. Coates, for the Eighteen, secured six wickets, and W. G. Grace, for the Eleven, lowered seven out of the eight wickets. On the Sunday it rained heavily, and the ground next day was so soft as to make it uncertain whether the game could be proceeded with but during the forenoon the weather improved, and it was therefore decided to proceed. Nine thousand persons attended. The rest of the Eighteen’s wickets fell in this order ;—9—s—7B ; 10—9—84; ll—l-85-12-8-88; 13-2-93; 14-13-107: 150- 16-2-112; 17-7-127. Grace and Jupp again represented England at the wickets. The latter, after scoring four, was bowled by a teazer from Coates. 1- Greenwood joined his captain, and Grace, after reaching double figures, and being nearly run out, made a cut in the slips, and was caught by Laurence off Coates. 2- Uscrofb, after playing a good innings for 11, was well caught by Bannerraau at square-leg. 3—11—33. G. F. Grace followed, and ho and Greenwood kept their wickets up for an hour. George Moore took up the bowling at Tindall’s end, and G. F. Grace in making a straight hit off him was cleverly caught by Oliver. 4—20 56, Gilbert was in for a long time, and the scoring was very slow, both the fielding and bowling being good. .Shortly after 70 runs had been telegraphed Gilbert made a hit off Spofforth to long-on, and was splendidly caught by Oliver. 5—9—74. Humphrey next put m an appearance, and in Spofforth’s next over the first ball took Greenwood’s middle stump. 6—17—74 A few minutes after M‘lntyro had taken his place at the wicket he lost his companion Humphrey, who was splendidly caught at point by Woods. 7 Lillywhite, after scoring 12, was cleverly thrown out by Bannerman whilst attempting a run. 8—12—90. MTntyre played a good innings for 4, and was very well caught by Oliver. 9 4—90 Souther ton just tipped the ball behind the wicket, and it lodged in tbe hands of Dave Gregory. 10-0-91. Bush carried out his bat without scoring. The innings terminated for a total of 91 runs, leaving the Eighteen only 56 runs to get in order to win the match. On the Tuesday the match was finished, the Eighteen proving victorious wickets to spare. The only men who made anything of a show were Pocock, who scored 27 before ho was disposed of, and J™ urenc p> who made 19. Five of the wickets fell for nil, including Thompson’s, Sheridan’s, and Bannerman’r. Five of the wickets were credited to G. F. Grace, and two to Lilly, white. The attendance on the ground was not numerous, as the result was almost a foregone conclusion. The day being yet young a single wicket match was arranged between Banuermati, Coates, Hewitt, Hand Massie, Oliver, Pocock, Sheridan, Tindall’ E. Gregory, Thompson, and Spofforth against W. G. Grace, G. F. Grace, Jupp Oscroft. Greenwood, Lillywhite, and Gilbert The Welshmen scored 29. Coates, making 10, and Sheridan 11, while D. Gregory Spofforth, Bannerman, Hand, Oliver, Thompson, and Tpdall,were credited with “ducks* eggs.’ W. G. Grace went in first for the and scored 28 with two byes. The Englishmen won with seven wickets to spare—Grace not out. • From the/ Sydney Empire V we learn that what promised to be an unseemly fracas took place m the pavilion on the Albert ground on Monday afternoon, at the cS? elusion of ths All-England Eleven’s inningS. There was some discussion as to'the time for SLT^S* 1 °* th % & atc k the ' a g™t desiring to be at two

to let the excitement culminate in the afternoon. To this Mr W. G. Grace objected, and stated his intention to send his men into the field at the appointed time, twelve o’clock. The agent used some uncomplimentary language, and reminded Mr Grace that the Eleven were paid to play, when the English captain seized him, and a scene was only prevented by the interference of some bystanders. Tho ‘Pleasant Creek News’ states that a gentleman has pointed out, in connection with the matches played by the English cricketers, that the game in every town yet, has gone just in the contrary direction to the betting. In Melbourne the English team was heavily backed and lost. In Ballarat the betting was against them, and they won the game. At Stawell the betting was heavily in their favor, and they were notably beaten. At Warrnambool, in consequence of their unexampled defeat at Stawell, the betting was against them, and they won. It was then thought that in Sydney, at any rate, they would retrive their laurels, and .they were the favorites in the betting, and again the issue of the. game was against those who offered odds.