Cricket Records : with a Commentary. By A. C. Coxhead.
(Lawrence and Bullen.)—" Records," it must be understood, is used in the technical sense of the best, or, it may be, the worst, example of its kind. It would be a "record" for an eleven to make 1,000 runs in one innings ; the "record," at present, is 920, the number which the Orleans Club made against Rickling Green in August, 1892. Mr. A. C. Maclaren held the record for a single innings, having scored 424 for Lancashire V. Somerset- shire in 1895, till it was superseded by the five or six hundred which made a schoolboy famous a few days ago,—we hope not to his permanent harm. In this volume we have all kinds of facts of this kind. Of the very bad examples, we have a total of 6 for the " B.'s" v. England in 1806, and 12 for Eton in Eton v. M.C.C. The lowest individual score for two innings is 0, a "score," our author says, "frequently repeated." In Yorkshire v. Middlesex in 1891, eight wickets fell for 0. In minor matches all the wickets have often gone for the same total. In a match at Cambridge in 1843 wides, &c., came to 183. Last year Yorkshire playing Derbyshire scored 554 for the first Wicket, J. T. Brown and Tunnicliffe being the batsmen. Enough has been said to show the subject of the book.
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