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CRICKET.
CURIOSITIES OF BATTING.
| James Broadbridge threw his bat at a wide ball and was caught by Mr. Ward at point | 1829 |
| Mr. E. Winter, in cutting at a ball, hit the top of the wicket so hard that the bails were driven into the stumps, where they stuck, although the wickets were almost in a horizontal position. Batsman not out | 1832 |
| The Hon. Robert Grimston used two bats when playing against Alfred Mynn the larger to block Mynn's fast balls, the smaller to hit the other bowlers | |
| Mr. Earle took four hours to make runs against the A.E.E. | 1846 |
| Twenty-two of Hungerford got the A.E.E. out for 12 runs first innings ; in the second George Parr took 4½ hours to make 28 | 1852 |
| Mr. J. Rowley, for Manchester v. Liverpool, hit a 9, an 8, and a 7 in his score of 46 | 1861 |
| Mr. Charles Payne hit a ball downhill, in a match at Tunbridge Wells, for which he ran 13 runs | 1863 |
| For XXII. of Castlemaine v. England, in Australia, Mr. Easton was batting two hours for 3 runs | 1864 |
| Mr. J. H. T. Roupell hit a 10, a 9, and an 8 on Parker's Piece, at Cambridge, in a score of 97 | 1865 |
| Mr. G. Richards, for the Harrow Blues v. Civil Service, batted 77 minutes without scoring | 1871 |
| Mr. E. M. Grace averaged 142 runs per innings for Thornbury Club in | 1872 |
| Mr. E. M. Grace hit 259 runs in 100 minutes, out of a total of for Thornbury Club in | 1873 |
| Mr. S. D. Smith for Marlborough College v. M.C.C., at Marlborough, hit 44 runs in 12 minutes | 1873 |
| Mr. W. G. Grace has never been dismissed in a first-class match without scoring, but he bagged a "brace" in the following matches: | |
| For XXII. of Lansdown v. A.E.E. (Tinley the bowler), 28th May | 1863 |
| For U.S.E.E. v. XXII. of Cadoxton Club (Howitt the bowler), 21st May | 1868 |
| For Bedminster v. G.W. Ry., Swindon (Laverick the bowler), 7th May | 1870 |
| Shrewsbury, when playing for Shaw's team v. New South Wales, in Australia, was dismissed in both innings without scoring 18th and 19th February, | 1887 |
| Mr. C. T. B. Turner clean bowled him in both innings. | |
| For Marlborough College v. Cheltenham College Mr. A. G. Steel added 48 runs to the total, and no other player scored while he did it | 1876 |
