Bad Luck at Cricket.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7072, 18 February 1893, Page 2

Bad Luck at Cricket.

A feature of the cricket match yesterday between Bookmakers v, Trainers ao'i Jockeys, I says the Dunedin Star , was the extraordinary | run of bad luok—on both eider. One player | had particular reas -n to complain. He was matins; a determined amucll to leg when the ball caught him on the h ,ok of the nook ; and while fielding ho would probably have caught out the best of the opposing battmen but for the fact that at the critical moment his hands stuck in hie pockets. It:- is only fair to say that this is denied. Another player happened to be yarning to the umpire when a soil catch came bis way, and that is his explanation of how he missed his one show. Hbenit was by pure iniss-dventura that several of the batsmen were rtumped. They merely walked a few yards in for the purpose of meeting the balls, in the air, and how on earth could anyone te!2 that they would miss them and giro the mart behind a chance ? Never before was there such a succession of unexpected mishap*. Balls that were curiously intended to bo placed overl- ngleg’a head dodged between point’s legs, the confounded thing would not go whore ft waa wonted to; and above all thera ara grounds for believing that the d; ciouno wero not always in accordance with the U«r» 0 f the gsmo. As an example, on one oer.aaion a batsman hit at and struck a ball declared "no ball," and they would not aHr, w the side to count the no-bull aod Mbd r ;un j Then again, the umpires persisted in giving men out when through slipping down f a n e d to get riack before the bails weroo'J. Under these circumstances good cricket was impossible, and it i* not a wonder to loxrn that the rroult declared to be a win for she Trainers and Jockeys by 46 to 43, la not accepted as decisive.