CRICKET.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 287, 2 December 1872, Page 2

CRICKET.

The match between the Hitherto invincible Wakefield club, and an eleven selected from tbe Town and College clubs was played on Saturday, and resulted in an unexpectedly easy victory for the latter. The effects of practice were plainly manifested in the bowling of tbe Town side, that of Cross being very destructive, and of Blundell of too dangerous a nature to be trifled with, a very different state of things to that which prevailed in the match played in Victory Square three weeks ago. The fielding too was exceedingly good, as shown by the number of catches that were made. The Waker field men wer6 certainly unlucky, but they also showed signs of being out of practice, an evil which they will, no doubt, take care to remedy before the return match is played. The scores were as follows : — Wakemeld Club. Ist innings. 2nd innings. S. Powell, b Blundell 6 c Barnicoat... 2 F. Burbush, b Cross 0 c Cross 7 K Knapp, b Cross 1 c Speed 13 H. Knapp, b Blundell 0 cKempthorne 4 C. Knapp, c Speed 0 b Blundell ... 9 M. Sellon, c Tomlinson ... 9 b Cross 6 S. Fowler, b Cross 0 st Cross 0 E. M. Smith, b Cross 1 b Blundell ... 0 J. Price, run out 1 b Blundell ... 0 H. Knyvett. not out 4 notout 0 C. Tunnicliff, b Cross 0 b Cross 0 Bjes 13 17 Leg byes 5 1 Wides 2 2 Totals 42 61 Grand total, 103. Nelson. Ist innings. 2nd innings. Grace, b C. Knapp 1 Tennent, c Sellon 7 b Sellon 0 Wither, b Knapp- 0 b Knapp 6 Speed, b Sellon 15 notout 14 Atkinson, c Price 0 Blundell, b Sellon I cH.Knapp... 4 Cross, b Sellon ,27 notout 2 Kempthorne, b Knapp 6 c Burbush ... 0 Tomlinson, b Knapp 1 Bamicoat, not out 1 Campbell, runout „ 0 Byes 9 5 Leg byes 2 0 "Wides.. 2 1 Totals 72 32 Grand total 104, and six wickets to go down. At the termination of the game, the bat, for which the match was played, was presented by the captain of the Nelson team to Mr. Cross, to whose excellent bowling and batting the result was mainly due.