INTERPROVINCIAL CRICKET MATCH.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 80, 21 March 1876, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL CRICKET MATCH.

A very hardly contested game has terminated in favor of the Nelson team, who have beaten the best eleven that Wellington could bring against them with four wickets to fall. It is satisfactory to find an impartial individual such as the agent who provided the very excellent telegraphic report of the game, awarding such praise to our men, especially with regard to tbeir fielding and bowling. This shows what a powerful team could be brought ! together in Nelson if the players would' only devote a little more time to practice, since, while so many of them are almost entirely without, they have yet contrived to do so well. The chances I and changes pf cricket have, perhaps, never been more clearly exemplified than in this game. The first telegram j to hand stated that five of the Wellington men had scored 57 runs, which gave promise of an excellent score; the next, that the other five had been unable to obtain more than 17, making the total 74. Then when the Nelson men went in 31 runs were scored before a wicket was taken. This looked like winning easily but then came the news that the next four men had gone out for 6, and the score stood afc 37 for five wickets, a very different state of things to 31 for one. The two next did better making 19 between them, but the three last were still more fortunate as they brought up the score from 66 to 104. Again, the Wellington men commenced their second innings very badly, three going out for, 11 runs, while those who followed averaged that' number each. Our men in the second innings seemed to be stricken with a mania for going out as quickly as they could, and among the mauy in Nelson who were watching the progress of the game with interest, there was quite a scare last night when the MaU was published containing the news that six .wickets had fallen for 33 runs, leaving 28 to be obtained before Nelson could claim the victory. Fortunately, however, Sellon, who is generally to be depended upon in a critical moment, and Coles, another very steady player, came to the rescue, and no bowling, however good or however frequently changed, could persuade them to part with their bails until tbey had run the score up to the desired 61. The eleven will cross over to Picton to-morrow, and play a Marlborough team at Blenheim on Thursday, and will arrive here by the Hawea on Friday. We hope to see someacknowledgement of the very creditable manner in which they have represented tbe province in doing battle with the Empire City, and probably they would like nothing better than to meet with a hearty reception on their arrival at the wharf. They have thoroughly deserved it, and the townspeople, we feel sure, will not be backward in according ifc to them. As the full scores of each individual were nob given in our telegrams we wired to a correspondent for them last night, and they will be found below. We would direct special attention to the difference in the number of byes scored by each side.

Wellington, Ist Innings. 2nd Inning 1 ". Knapp.bE'ien ... Qb C. Croas „. 0 W. Salmon, c Halliday, b Eden ... 22 c Cross, b Eden H Pamngton, bC.Cross 9 b Eden ... ...26 Edoionds, b Eden ... 1 c Halliday, bC. ; Cross ... 7 Lockett, c K Knapp, bEden ... ... 7 b Eden 11 Evaos.c Coles, b Eden 2 bC. Cross ... 2 Gouge, c and b Eden 8 b Eden . 0 Armitage, c C. Cross bEen 8 not out ... 13 I. F. Salmon, b Eden 2 bC. Croas ... 1 J. A. Salmon, b Eden 6b C. Gross ... 0 Mason, run out ... 0c K. Knapp, b b fowler ... 0 Byes ... 3 18 Leg Bye ... I 1 Widen ... 5 3 Totai ... 74 90 Grand Total ... 164 JSTeIsON. Ist Inoingc 2nd Jnning3. Halliday, c Mason, b I. Salmon ... ... 9 b Armifcqge ... 3 KKtmpp.bArraitage 15 H Knapp, c and b I Salmon 0 b Salmon ... 1 Fowler, b Armitage 0 b Armicage ... 9 0. Cross, b Salmon 0 b Armitage ... 7 Coles, l.tyjc., b I. Salmon ... ... 8 not out ... 12 Sellon, b I. Salmon 4 not out ... 19 C KnappjbArmituge 7 H. Cross, 8t Edmonds b Evans 16 Eden, l.^.w, b Knapp 17 c Evans, b Armitage ... 0 Greenfield, not out ?b, Armitage ... 0 ißyes 1 ...'in ' " J6 ! Leg Byes ... $ 1 Widea ... 4 3 Total 104 61 Grand Total .., 165 Pour w kets to go down.