CRICKET.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 684, 29 August 1876, Page 3

CRICKET.

THE COMING SEASON.

We are informed that it is the intention of some leading cricketers here to form a new club, the promoters of which meet to-night at Warner's Hotel to arrange the preliminaries. We hope they will be able to make satisfactory arrangements as to the use of the ground, <fcc. We believe it is the intention to disband the Christchurch C. 0., a step we think in the right direction, the club certainly having fallen off very much the last few seasons. The present intention of the new club is, if it can be so arranged, to take over the liabilities of the present Christchurch club, in consideration for which they will have the Christchurch Paviliou handed over to them. Speaking of the ground reminds us it is high time something was done towards getting it in order for next season. It is naturally a hard, dry ground, and if many more weeks are allowed to pass over it before a roller is used, we may expect to give a very poor wicket to the All England team on their arrival. We are aware that the indefatigable secretary of the U.C.C.C. is at present engaged on other important busintss, but surely the next officer has a right to see the ground properly looked after. With such a fine spring as we are having cricket might begin at the end of September, but, from present appearances, that will be impossible ; though with the probability of visits from England, Victoria, and Otago, our men will require to have an early and good practice to cope with our visitors. The visit of an All England team to this province during the coming season is now almost a certainty. A letter has been received by the secretary of the interprovincial match committee, from the All England Eleven's agent in Australia, saying that he was very pleased with the replies to his enquiries he received from the New Zealand cricketers, and that it was the express wish of the Eleven to visit New Zealand if anything like reasonable terms could be arranged, and that from answers received so far, the terms proposed were quite satisfactory.

CRICKET IN ENGLAND.

There is great activity in England in the cricket field. On the 9th June, after three days' p!ay, Gloucestershire beat Surrey by 10 wickets. The three Graces were in the winning team, but more than half the runs were secured by Gilbert and Town send, 86 and 88 respectively in the two innings. Hampshire beat Kent by 286 runs. In a contest between Oxford University and the Gentlemen of England, the former gained a decisive victory by 10 wickets. In a county match between Middlesex and Surrey, lasting three days, the former was victorious by eight wickets ; Mr Otaway in 'the Middlesex team obtained 152 runs. Notts in a single innings defeated a Marylebone scratch team after two innings, by 52 runs. Brighton has been made the scene of a contest between Sussex and Gloucestershire, resulting in a victory for the latter by 131 runs. Mr W. G. Grace contributed largely to this result, with a score of 104 in the second innings. Derbyshire, in a single innings, has vanquished the M.C.C, after a double innings. Cambridge University has won a three days' match with Surrey, by 148 runs. Lancashire has obtained an easy victory over Kent, without losing a wicket in their second innings. The Bar has beaten the Army by eight wickets in a two days' contest. In a match between Edinburgh and Aberdeen Universities, the former won by 61 runs. In a three days' contest between Ox f ord and Cambridge, the latter won with nine wickets to spare. Eton beat Manchester by one innings and 90 runs.