442
CRICKET.
BOWLING RECORDS.
All Ten Wickets in an Innings in First-class Matches:
- Mr. G. H. Kirwan, for Eton v. M.C.C. (all bowled), 9th July, 1835.
- E. Hinkly, for Kent v. England, 11th July, 1848—no analysis.
- J. Wisden, for North v . South, 15th July, 1850 no analysis (all bowled).
- Mr. V. E. Walker, for England v. Surrey, 2ist July, 1859, for 74 runs.
- Mr. E. M. Grace, for M.C.C. v. Kent, 14th August, 1862—no analysis.
- Mr. V. E. Walker, for Gentlemen of Middlesex v. Gentlemen of Kent, 16th June, 1864, for 37 runs.
- G. Wootton, for All -England v. Yorkshire, 19th July, 1865—no analysis.
- Mr. V. E. Walker, for Middlesex v. Lancashire, 22nd July, 1865, for 104 runs.
- W. Hickton, for Lancashire v. Hants, 2ist July, 1870, for 46 runs.
- J. C. Shaw, for Notts v. England, 15th Sept., 1870, for 20 runs.
- Mr. S. E. Butler, for Oxford v. Cambridge, 26th June, 1871, for 38 runs.
- J. Lillywhite, for South v. North, 7th August, 1872, for 129 runs.
- A. Shaw, for M.C.C. and Ground v. North, 1st June, 1874, for 73 runs.
- E. Barratt, for Players v. Australians, 2nd Sept., 1878, for 43 runs.
- Mr. G. Giffen, for Anglo-Australian XI. v. Combined Australia, 16th February, 1884, for 66 runs.
- Mr. W. G. Grace, for M.C.C. v. Oxford University, 22nd June, 1886, for 49 runs.
- G. Burton, for Middlesex v. Surrey, 19th July, 1888, for 59 runs.
- Mr. S. M. J. Woods, for Cambridge University v. Mr. C. I. Thornton's XI., 12th May, 1890, for 69 runs.
It will be thus seen that Mr. V. E. Walker has done it thrice ; no other bowler has done it more than once.
FIELDING RECORDS.
| Throwing the Cricket Ball : | |
| 140 yards, by Billy the Aboriginal, Australia, 19th Dec. | 1872 |
| 137 yards, by G. Brown (doubtful), Wolverton Common | 1819 |
| 132 yards, by Mr. W. F. Forbes (18 years old), Eton College Sports, 16th March | 1876 |
| 130 yards, by Mr. G. J. Bonnor, Australia | |
| 128 yards 10½ inches, by Crane (Baseball player), Melbourne, 5th January | 1889 |
| 127 yards 1 foot 3 inches, by Mr. W. H. Game, Oxford University Sports, 13th March | 1873 |
