The Cricket Field: Or, the History and Science of the Game of CricketPycroft, James
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The Cricket Field: Or, the History and Science of the Game of Cricket
Pycroft, James
Cricket
Mr. Marcon, at Attlebury, 1850, bowled four men in four successive
balls. The Lansdown Club, in 1850, put the West Gloucestershire Club
out for six runs, and of these only two were scored by hits--so ten
ciphers! Eleven men last year (1850) were out for a run each; Mr. Felix
being one. Mr. G. Yonge, playing against the Etonians, put a whole side
out for six runs. A friend, playing the Shepton Mallet Club, put his
adversaries in, second innings, for seven runs to tie, and got all out
for five! In a famous Wykehamist match all depended on an outsider’s
making two runs, he made a hard hit; when, in the moment of exultation,
“Cut away, you young sinner,” said a big fellow; and lo! down he laid
his bat, and did indeed cut away, but--to the tent! while the other
side, amidst screams of laughter at the mistake, put down the wicket
and won the match.
In a B. Match, 1810, the B.s, scored second innings, only 6; and four
of these were made at one hit, by J. Wells, a man given, though the
first innings scored 137.
True, E. H. Budd was “_absent_,” still the Bentleys, Bennett, Beldham
and Lord Frederick Beauclerk were among the ten.
On the Surrey ground, 1851, had not an easy catch been missed, the
Eleven of All England would have gone out for a run apiece.
The Smallest Score on record is that of the Paltiswick Club, when
playing against Bury in 1824: their first innings was only 4 runs!
Pilch bowled out eight of them. In their next innings they scored 46.
Bury, first innings, 101.
In a match at Oxford, in 1835, I saw the two last wickets, Charles
Beauclerk and E. Buller, score 110 runs; and in an I.Z. match at
Leamington, the last wickets scored 80.
TIE MATCHES.--There have been only four of any note: the first was
played at Woolwich, in 1818, M.C.C. _v._ Royal Artillery, with E. H.
Budd, Esq.; the second, at Lord’s, in 1839, M. C. C. _v._ Oxford;
the third, at Lord’s, between Winchester and Eton; the fourth at the
Oval, in 1847, Surrey _v._ Kent. But at a scratch match of Woking _v._
Shiere, in 1818, at Woking, there was a tie each innings and all four
innings the same number, 71!
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