Australian Cricketers in England

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 48, 25 August 1896, Page 2

Australian Cricketers in England

AUSTRALIANS v. SOMERSETSHIRE. (Per Press Association.) London, August 24. The Australians began a match with Somersetshire to-day. The following are the County team : -L. and R. Paliaret, j Woods, Hill, Hedley, Newton, Robson, j Tyler, Nicholls, Roe, and Challen. j Graham, Johns, and Eady stand out of j the Australian team. Tho attendance wf.s good, but heavy rain fell at intervals until o p.m., when it been mo a steady downpour, and play had | to bo stopped. Somerset had then lost one wicket for 37. The rain ceased later on in the afternoon, nnd play was resumed. When the stumps were drawn Somerset had lost five wickets for 156 — L. Pulairet, 6; Hedley, 40 ; R. Palairet, 31 ; Woods, 35 ; Roe, not out, 23.

Lancashire beat Surrey on Saturday, and Yorkshire becomes champion county. During Gregory's first inning's in the Yorkshire match, ho received a severe blow on the chin fiom Haisrh, which caused his retirement, and he was unable afterwards to take his place in the field. He was just "set" at tho time, having made 24 runs, and although he was allowed to continue his innings Inter on, h° wns eyidently not feeling equal to it, an.l was soon out, otherwise, from the wny he started, it is probable that he would have added another good scora to his already long list in this respect. The Australian cricketers, during their present tour, have so fir played thirty matches, of which they have won eighteen, drawn seven, and lost five. In parenthesis I (writes the Sydney Mail correspondent from Londonl will tell I of a remarkable occurrence in this week'^ cricket. The match was M.C.C. against Cambridge University. Albert Trott, who had bowled well for M.C.C. in the first innings of the University, had begun well in the second, £jettin<j a wicket in hi 3 first over. A 'Varsity man. by name Mar riott, came in, and Trott's tint ball rose and hit him a S3vere blow on the chin, which caused his retirement. It was the first of the Victorian's deliveries which had risen at all, aud such accidents are always occurring, and always will occur, in cricket, but in this casa the Cambridge captain and the secretary of the M.C.C. walked out on the playing ground and requested (pritcticallv demanded) that Trott should be taken off, and this was done ; surely a most unfair proceeding as far as the bowler was concerned. Such a thins has never happened b'fore in first-class cricket, and if every man who accidentally hits tho batsaian is to be stopped bowling, the jjime had better be at once abandoned as being too rough for the present genera; ion.