Cricket.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 78, 2 April 1895, Page 4

Cricket.

BULLETIN PARS

The following interesting pars are extracted from the Bulletin :

Great as was Turner’s disappoint ment at his exclusion,from the final test match, it must have been more than compensated for by Stoddnrt’s bolding up the ball at the conclusion of the match, and thanking the gods that “ The Terror ” had not had the handling of it. McKibben was fated to chase the “ fourer ” that won the tost match for the Englishmen. Having arrived at the ball, he was preparing to throw it in as per usual, but a hundred voices yelled ‘‘keep it!” Even then the Bathurst pet seemed doubtful as to whether he had any right to hold the ball, so they again shouted “ Keep it.” A generous-minded barracker for Australia moved, as an amendment — “ Keep it, and give it to Brown.” He gave it to Stoddart. At the outset Stoddart’s team, on paper, had a fair show of beating Australia, best three out of five, by keeping the runs down. They left England with the reputation of being barely good enough to win on the extra strength of their bowling. Yet it was the weakness of the Australian attack which won them two victories in Melbourne and enabled them to snatch the first Sydney game out of the fire.

Stoddart, the most discreet of speech-makers, having won the rubber, dropped a delicate reminder that his team wasn’t the strongest All England lot imaginable, though it had done what the strongest would have felt proud of. A seasonable remark considering all the local reference to “ ashes ” and “ the match of the century.”

England tried seven bowlers in the five matches, who bowled 5881 balls, 229 maidens, 4 wides, 7 no-balls, and took 86 wickets. Australia tried 14 bowlers, who bowled 5682 balls, 283 maidens, 7 wides, 7 no-balls, and took 91 wickets. The Englishmen clean bowled 33 wickets, ofwhich Richardson took 26. The Australians clean bowled 28, Giffen being responsible for nine. Forty-six Australians were caught out, Phillipson and Peel being most successful with eight each. Fiftytwo Englishmen were caught, Giffen, Iredale, H. Trott, Darling, and Bruce dividing honours. Three Australians were stumped, two by Phillipson and one by Gay ; while eight Englishmen were similarly dismissed, Jarvis stumping seven. Four Australians were run out, and one Englishman. In the five test matches England played nine innings and four wickets, and made 2339 runs ; Australia played nine innings, and made 2822. The players and aggregate scores were as under : England. Australia. Ward ... 419 Giffen ... 419 Stoddart ... 352 Gregory ... 362 'Brown ... 343 Iredale ... 837 McLaren ... 240 Trott, H. ... 264 Brockweil ... 171 Darling ... 258 Peel ... 168 Trott, A. ... 206 Ford ... 168 Bruce ... 187 Briggs ... 164 Graham ... 121 Lockwood... 89 Lyons ... 112 Phillipson... 52 Jarvis ... 110 Richardson 68 Blackham... 76 Gay ... 37 Turner ... 52 Sundries... 126 Callaway ... 62 McKibben... 36 ; Reedman ... 21 McCloud, C. 17 Coningham 13 Jones ✓ ... 12 Worrall ... 11 Harry ... 8 Trumble ... 3 Moses ... 0 | Sundries... 79 I T0ta1...2399 j T0ta1...2822