CRICKET.

Evening Star, Issue 4295, 1 December 1876, Page 4

CRICKET.

A match was played on the Oval yesterday between the first eleven of the Dunedin Club and eighteen of the Carrisbrook Club, and was one of the best-contested games played this season, The Dunedin representatives went first to the wickets, and were not out till they had put together 100 runs, which, considering the capital fielding opposed to them, was a very respectable score. Meares, Aris, Allen, and Shepherd were each credited with double figures, Aris making top scores with 27. For the Carrisbrook Club Fulton and Austin batted like giants, and, with the co-peration of the others, managed to obtain a total of 95, thus leaving Dunedin victorious by 5 runs. At the North Dunedin ground an eleven of the Albion Club met sixteen of the North Dunedin Rifles. The Albions scored 45 and the riflemen 43 in their first innings respectively, but it was evident that the eleven were more than a match for their opponents, and the second innings proved this, as the Rifles scored only 63 to the 62 of their antagonists, with seven wickets to fall. The total scores were—Albions, 107 ; North Dunedin Rifles, 106.

The * South Australian Register ’ has the following respecting the two principal bowlers of the English team :—“The most interest appeared to centre at the wicket where Shaw was bowling, and the easy grace with which he delivered his balls, and the precision and certainty with which they broke into the wicket—generally from the off—were especially admired and commented on. When we say ‘ generally from the off ’ we do not mean to repeat an idea which was current on the ground to the effect that Lilly white’s favorite bowler—without whom, as he himself says, an All-England Eleven would be incomplete—cannot twist the ball in from the leg. We believe he can, for we have seen him do it, almost with as much certainty as he yesterday broke in from the off. During part of the afternoon i'haw was bowling against Selby, and this noted batsman made some splendid drives, a few of them being out of the reach of any twentytwo that might have been in the field. The bowling of Emmett, the left round-arm, was as different as possible from Shaw’s, He covers a large space of ground from the wicket at which he bowls, going, we should suppose to the limit of his crease—and then delivering the ball with his left arm in such a position that the ball goes into the wicket at a remarkable angle. The pace also appears fast, but the exertion looks too great to last long. The bowling is not by any means elegant, but it must be very difficult to play being so very different from ordinary round-arm bowling.