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Globe, Volume V, Issue 523, 21 February 1876, Page 2

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ENGLAND v. COLONIES. The above match was commenced on Saturday last. The toss for choice of innings resulted in favor of those who had learnt ericket in England, and they decided to take first innings, H. W. Moore and Alpe being their first representatives, Frith and Fuller being entrusted with the bowling for the Colonies. The third ball from Frith disposed of Moore, and in the following over ! he bowled Alpe and Ashby, Corfe was unfortunate, the iball going in of! his leg—one for 0,

wo tor i, mice four for 3. Sweet and Stevens played more steadily, the former in* creasing the score by some good drives tothe off, but with the total at 30, he was undecided how to play a straight ball from Frith, and was clean bowled in consequence. He made 18, by a 4, two 3’s, and four 2’s. Stevens was disposed of by Fuller in the next overlive and six for 30. The total reached 33, when Neilson played too late for a ball from Frith, and at 35 Dickinson was well run out, the ball being fielded nicely by B. A. Kent. Souter and J. M. Taylor now got together, and ly some free hitting increased the score to 61, when a ball from Frith proved too much for Taylor, who made 13, by three 3’s and two 2’s. He gave a chance to short slip when he had made 11, but was let off. A. C. Wilson now came in, but a good ball from Fuller prevented his being troublesome, and the innings closed for the small score of 64.

The Colonials then went in, Ollivier and Wood being first to defend the wickets, to the bowling of Sweet and H, W. Moore. With the score at 12, Wood was bowled by Moore, byes being the chief scorer. Thompson filled the vacancy, and hit his first ball well to leg for 3. Ollivier tried to follow his example with the next, but bit it high in the air; long leg did not reach it in time, so he escaped and scored two runs instead. Soon afterwards Thompson played a ball into his wicket—two for 21, J. Fowler now joined Ollivier, and the score increased rapidly; the latter, however, made some very dangerous hits, driving the ball back to Sweet, and afterwards to Corfe, but escaped both times. Neilson would probably have caught him on one occasion, but the sun prevented his seeing the ball, J, Fowler played well and without a chance until, in hitting a ball to leg, he was splendidly caught by Sweet at short leg—three for 79. He made two splendid off drives for 6 and 4. E. Fowlei filled the vacancy, but soon afterwards Ollivier was bowled by a shooter from Corfe aad before any more runs bad been added to the score Sweet bowled E. Fowler—four and five for 91. Dixon was splendidly run out out by J. Fowler, who was fielding substitute for Ashby, who had to retire, having sprained his knee. Fuller made two 3’s and two singles before being bowled by Corfe. Frith made 9 by steady play, and was not out at the fall of the tenth wicket for 123, of which there were 14 byes. The match will be resumed on Saturday next. The bowling of Frith was very good, and Corfe was very successful in getting wickets. The following is the score : England—First Innings. H. W. Moore, b Frith ... ... ... 0 S. Alpe, b Frith ... ... ... ... 0 C. 0. Corfe, b Fuller ... 1 D. Ashby, b Frith ... ... 2 E. C. J. Stevens, b Fuller ... 6 T. S. Sweet, b Frith 18 G. Dickinson, run out 3 W. F. Neilson, b B’rith 1 J. Souter, not out 14 J. M. Taylor, b Frith 13 A, C. Wilson, b Fuller 1 Leg-byes ... ... 5 64 Colonies—First Innings. A. M. Ollivier, b Corfe 43 J. Wood, b Moore 6 0. Thompson, b Moore 4 J. Fowler, c Sweet, b Ashby 22 E. Fowler, b Sweet 5 B. T. A. Fuller, b Corfe 8 C. Dixon, run out ... 3 R. A. Kent, b Corfe ... 2 0. Frith, not out 9 W. 0. Smith, b Sweet 1 C. Smith, c Moore, b Sweet 2 Byes, 14; leg-byes, 2; wides, 3 19 123 Analysis op Bowling. England—First Innings, Balls. Mdns. Bns. Wkts. Wides. Frith ... 70 4 ' 20 6 0 Puller A: 66 2 38 3 0 Colonies—First Innings. Balls. Mdns. Rns. Wkts. Wides. Sweet ... 90 7 28 3 1 Moore ... 65 3 24 2 1 Corfe ... 75 2 36 3 0 Ashby ... 20 0 15 1 1 UNITED PRINTERS V, SUNNYSIDE. The above match was played on Saturday last on the Sunnyside ground. The wickets were pitched at 2 o’clock, the printers going in first, when they succeeded in making 86 runs, the chief contributor being Mr Nation, who played a really fine innings of 46. The Sunnyside team then handled the willow, but were all out for 48 runs. The Printers in their second innings were quickly despatched for the small score of 38, thus leaving the Sunnyside 77 to get to to win. Being only a one-day match, wickets were drawn at 6.30, when they had only got 61 runs, with five wickets to fall. Page and Watts bowled weU for the home team, the former,taking several wickets, and Atack and Ninon, for the Printers, were also successful. The Printers’ fielding was good, no less than nine men being caught out. The scores were as follows Sunnyside, first innings: 48; second ditto,"6l; total, 99. Printers—First innings, 85 ; second ditto, 38 ; total, 124,