If it is part of the function of the Middlesex
.County Eleven to bring cricket into disrepute, their performance at Cambridge on Tuesday must be regarded .as a brilliant contribution towards that achievement, Cambridge, having scored 247 and 291 against a first innings score of 260 by Middlesex, proceeded to knock down the Middlesex second innings wickets with some rapidity, bringing a victory for the University well within sight. But Cam- bridge counted without Durston and Peebles, who, acting it must be presumed on instructions from their captain, stayed in for fifty minutes without scoring a single run between them, their twofold object being, apparently, to rob the University of a victory and to make this doubly sure by preventing the University from claiming a new ball, which they could do when the innings yielded 200 .runs. It is not very difficult to see what is wrong with English cricket. JANUS.
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