SOME REMARKABLE CRICKET INCIDENTS.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 224, 17 November 1893, Page 9

SOME REMARKABLE CRICKET INCIDENTS.

In a match played on July I4th last, be tween Winton House and Banister Court (second eleven), a batsman named Edwards struck a ball hard in the direction of shortleg. This functionary was standing very close to the wicket, and the ball came too fast for him to catch. It struck him on the forehead, and 1 rebounded ’ thence to the wicket,with the result that the batsman, who had started to run, was ‘ run out.’ The distance of the rebound was nearly ten yards, so that short-leg’s forehead must have received a very nasty knock. About eight years ago at Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, a match was played be tween Boys Resident and Boys Visiting the Town. One side made 78, the other replied again, and actually failed to make a single run ! So that, although only one behind an the first venture, they retired beaten in a single innings * In the recent match between Sussex and Middlesex, an umpire gave a curious decision, The wicket having been ‘ broken,’ C. P. Foley, one of the Middlesex batsmen, assisted in replacing a bail, whereupon the bowler asked, ‘How’s that?’ ‘ Out !’ said the umpire, quite erroneously ; and the batsman, of course, retired. Mr Murdoch, however, the Sussex captain, went to the pavilion, and insisted on his resuming his innings, as there is absolutely nothing in the laws to prevent a batsman handling the bail, though to handle a ball is, of course, fatal. Not long ago, in a match between Gloucestershire and the Australians, a ball bowled by one of the county men killed a swallow that happened to be flying across the pitch ; and on another occasion a celebrated professional, who died recently, astonished the batsman he was antagonising by throwing the ball he was about to bowl at a passing pigeon, which he killed and subsequently had stuffed. Griffiths, the old old Sussex 1 slogger,’ once hit every ball of an over of Bennett’s for six ; and quite recently a Malvern boy, named Rhodes, played an innings of 49, which was made up of twelve hits—eleven fours and a five. The largest scoie ever made at cricket by a side is 920 by the Orleans Club against Rickling Green The largest ever made by an individual is 485, by A. E, Stoddart for Hampstead, against a club known as the Stoics. Their stoicism must have been severely tried on this occasion. But probably the most remarkable innings ever played was at Grimsby, in 1876, when against ‘ twenty-two ’ of that town, Mr W G. Grace made 100, not out.— Scraps.