SOME FEATS AND RECORDS OF CRICKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 443, 14 June 1902, Page 4

SOME FEATS AND RECORDS OF CRICKET.

Mr E. Winter, playing in a match in 1832, in cutting at a ball, hit the top of the wicket so hard that the bails were driven into the stumps, whore they stuck, although tho wickets were almost in a horizontal position. He was given 11 not out.” E. M. Grace, playing in a match for Berkerly v. Knole Park, in Gloucestershire, on August 20, 1861, scored 100 out of a total of 119 (of which three were extras), and took every wicket in the Knole Park second innings. A record in stonewalling was made at Castlemaine, Victoria, in 1864, when W. G. Grace’s English team played a local 22. A player named Easton was batting for two hours for three runs. E. M. Grace hit 295 runs in 100 minutes, out of a total of 331, for Thorney Club, in 1872, A splinter broke off Albert Ward’s bat, and knocked off his bail, in a match between Lancashire and Derbyshire, in June, 1899. He was given out “hit wicket.”

Playing for Yorkshire v. Derbyshire, at Chesterfield, on August 19, 1898, Brown and Tunnieliff put on 554 runs for the first wicket (Brown 300, Tunnieliff 243). The lowest total in a first-class match was 12, made by Oxford University v. M.C.C., at Oxford, in May, 1877. H. F. Boylo captured seven wickets with eight balls for the Australians v. Eighteen of Elland, at Leeds, in 1878. On the Oval, August 22, 1896, Moid, for Lancashire, bowled Lohmann with a ball that sent the bail 63yds. 6in. from the stumps. . On three occasions in first-class matches a player has scored over 2000 runs, and taken 100 wickets, in a season. These aro ;—"\V. G. Grace (1876), 2622 runs and 124 wickets; O. L. Townsend (1899), 2440 runs and 101 wiokets; G. L. Jessop (1900), 2210 runs and 104 wickets.

The greatest number of wickets obtained with successive deliveries is eight, a number claimed by James Walker, for Ashcombe Park, against Tunstall, at Ashcombo Park, Staffordshire, in May, 1882. The best stand for the last wicket in a first-class match is 230, by B. W. Nioholls and Boche, for Middlesex against Surrey, at Liverpool, in July, 1885. The greatest number of wickets obtained by a wicketkeeper in a first-class match is 12, by E. Pooley, in the match between Surrey and Sussex, at the Oval, in July, 1868. In the first innings he stumped one and caught five, and in the second stumped three and caught three. Several wicketkeepers have taken six in an innings. Tho longest partnership oil record in any match is 625^for the second wicket, by Captain Oates and Private Fitzgerald, for the First Eoyal Munster Fusiliers v. the Army Service Corps, at the Curragh, on June 12, 1895. In tho match at Sydney in February, 1898, between Stoddart’s English team and New South Wales, 1739 runs were scored —a record in first-class cricket. New South Wales made 918 in one innings against South Australia, at Sydney, in January, 1901, this being the highest total ever obtained in a first-class matoh.