CRICKET.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 378, 28 August 1875, Page 2

CRICKET.

OXFORD V. CAMBRIDQE. [Otago Daily Times.'] The Oxford and Cambridge cricket match commenced at Lord's on Monday, the 28th June, the day before the mail left. The respective teams were thus composed :—Cambridge : Messrs Blacker, Greenfield, Hamilton, Longman, Lucas, Lyttelton, Macan, Paterson, Sharpe, Sims, and Smith. Oxford : Messrs Briggs, Buck land, Campbell, FoordKelcey, Game, Lang, Pulman, Ridley, Royle, Tylecote, and Webbe. It is probable that never during the history of the match have there been two better or more evenly matched elevens than these, and the issue of the match must be said to be extremely doubt ful. Cambridge has the better all-round battin? team, and Oxford the advantage in respect of bowling, and at the same time their field is better organised. In the morning, although the rain was excessive, there was a dense mass of spectators on the ground waiting for play to begin, The rain, however, continued to fall, when about one o'clock, the tarpaulings were removed from the wickets, find Cambridge took the field. At night Oxford had scored 188 for the loss of seven wickets, and on the following morning the last wicket fell for a total of 200 runs. The first innings of Cambridge commenced at noon on the 29th, and at one o'clock, it is reported that two wickets had fallen, CO were up, and Lucas and Blacker were batting well.