CRICKET.

Evening Star, Issue 4259, 20 October 1876, Page 4

CRICKET.

The Tuapeka Club accept the challenge of the D.C.C. to play on any day after December 1. The D.'C.C.'s eleven meet the next fifteen on the Oval on Saturdy, and contemplate sending a team to Palmers ton on the Prince of Wales's Birthday. The match at Montecillo tomorrow will be played between the first eleven and eighteen of the Cai'isbrook Cricket Club. There bas been great activity in the cricket field in England. Surrey, in a contest with Kent, was viotonous by ten wickets. A match between Surrey and Middlesex resnted in a tie, each side sooring 460 runs. Yorkshire beat Surrey by 24 runs. Kent defeated Lancashire by 129 runs. Mr W. G. Grace has wonderfully disting lished himself this season. In fifty-three innings he got 3,287 runs, or an average of sixty-two per innings. His highest scores were 316, 344, 400. A few facts, culled from the English papers, may interest our cricketing readers. In the Glentlemen v. Players, Mr Grace score*) 90 t?nd 169,. against the attacks of Shaw, Hill, Money, and Emmett. Against Sussex, he put together a raj'id and chancekss 104. With twenty-iwo in the field, he, at Grimsby, surpassed himself iwith a not out contribution of 4CO, which included fifty-one fours. The last mail is replete with his triumphs. Fiist, a*; Canterbury, he scared 91, with the pick of England's bowling opposed to him. and this is at once followed up by a wonderful 344, made without a chance, at the expense of the Kent Eleven, while the Yorkshire team, one of the strongest in England, had shortly afterwards to endure his cariying bis bat for 319 runs, and the representatives of Notts, a county at least as strong, paid for the one life they allowed him by seeing him score 177 off their unrivalled bowlers. But all this must, in the eyes of true cricketers, be cast into the shude by his last performance in a North v. South match at Hull, where, out of a total of 159 made by his side in their first effort, Mr Grace put together no less than 126, or about four-fifths of the whole, and this he backed up with 82 in the second innings. G'oucestei shire has now played all the strong counties of England. It has not suffered a defeat, nor in all I probability is it likely to do so, as Mr Grace is by no means the only sterling cricketer of the team.