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included men like Boult, W, R. Gilbert, Bush, Andrew Greenwood; and Richard Humphrey, who would not have been included in any representative eleven; and it was not till three years later, when a strong professional eleven went out, that the really genuine Australian cricketer was found to have developed far enough to play an English eleven on even terms—and to defeat them. Any one who saw the Colonists play as Lillywhite's team did, knew that for all practical purposes they had, on smooth wickets, a splendid forcing bat in Charles Bannerman, and several bowlers quite in the first rank—Spofforth, Boyle, Kendall, and Evans. Still, so slow, and perhaps I may add, so unwilling, were the Britishers to dream that any eleven outside England could be compared with a really representative English team, that when Gregory's eleven came to England, few anticipated anything but easy victories over the Colonists, and they sat all the more easy when Notts won the first match in the innings, before our visitors had lost their sea-