CRICKET.
BIR. —Perhtp* the following curtoiHiei in cricketing ana»l« in connection wi h last Satindny'» matoh, and "imal! score*" hitherto recordod. may nob pror« uninteresting to lotne of your readers. An inningi (in a first clam ma'ch) without one run. was playpd in Lord Wmierton's Park in 1856. James Challen being one of the bowlers, tue irntio side that scored 0 Sift, acored 100 second inmngi. Thn next smallest score on record in that of the Pxltisnick Club when plsying against Bury in 1824. Palti*wick 0C: let innings, 4; 2nd inning. 46 Bury CC : -Ist inningi, 101 Jull^r Pich bowled for tho htter club and took eight wicke • m t>e fir-t innings. In one of the lumous B in* civs in JlBlO, the B's (E H BuHd, B.nnetf, BL>ldham, Loid F Beauelerk and the Bsntleya ammgst them) scored iecond innings only 6, whilst in the firat lniimgs (hey had place i 137 lo their credit. In a match Gfntlemon v Players of West of England in 1859, the Gentlemen sored Ist waines, 6 (including 3 byes) 2nd innings, 273. The Players 1 t innings, 198 ; 2nd innmgs, 82 (with four wicketj to fxll.) Quoting from that well-known tnanual " The Cnaot Field." " Criokel u not lololy • game of skill, chance h»i «way enough to leave the mnquished an 'if ' and i\ ' but.' A lont; inningi bespeaki ijood play, but 'oat the first bill' it no disgrace." Hoping I huro not intruded on your •pace too much — I am, 4a, A Lover or Cbickbt.
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 582, 12 February 1876, Page 3
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252CRICKET. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 582, 12 February 1876, Page 3
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