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again meet Sussex until 1841, when the hop 

 county won both matches with great ease. In 

 the two second innings of Sussex there were 

 only two contributions of double figures, G. Mill- 

 yard on both occasions scoring 10. In 1843, at 

 Brighton, Sussex turned the tide of defeat and 

 beat Kent, who were without Mr. Felix, by 20 

 runs. Mr. W. Ward played for England at the 

 same town, aged fifty-six, having appeared in big 

 fixtures as far back as 1 8 1 o. In August of this 

 year Sussex beat M.C.C. by 86 runs in a match 

 yielding 830 runs, the largest aggregate since the 

 introduction of round-arm bowling. Of this 

 total, Mr. C. G. Taylor, with 100 not out, 

 scored his only century for Sussex. He was a 

 finished and brilliant bat, quick on his legs with 

 a remarkable variety of strokes, and bowled slow 

 round-arm with effect. Box in this match con- 

 tributed 60 not out and 65. 



For some seasons, though the county team 

 met with success, there were very few notable 

 features in the Sussex matches. Scoring was 

 generally low as a result of the marked superiority 

 of the ball to the bat. Two keen amateurs, the 

 brothers Napper, received invaluable support from 

 Wisden and Dean, who were the backbone of the 

 eleven ; while Picknell and Hammond were also 

 prominent as batsmen. 1$ the match against 

 England in 1 849 Box was put on and obtained 

 five wickets for 45 runs by slow lobs of the 

 worst description, pitched anywhere and high in 

 the air. He clean bowled George Parr when he 

 had made 85. The encounter between England 

 and XVI of Sussex in 1851 was somewhat of a 

 scratch affair, and was played on 13, 14, and 15 

 October, being unfinished. In 1852 Sussex 

 and Surrey at Lord's beat England by 5 1 runs ; 4 

 the first innings were respectively 34 and 48. 

 G. Brown's score of 86 v. Surrey at the Oval 

 in July 1852, was the largest for the southern 

 shire for some seasons, but next year John 

 Lillywhite, in the match against M.C.C. com- 

 piled 95, while the county took the last six club 

 wickets for 4 runs. John Lillywhite, nick- 

 named the ' mud-bowler,' played for seventeen 

 years in most of the big matches, and was the 

 chief cover-point of his day. ' Tiny ' Wells, a 

 diminutive but very useful cricketer, came into 

 the side soon after. 



Sussex played England for the last time in 

 1853, wnen , helped by Clarke and Parr, the 

 county won by 68 runs, Wisden taking eight 

 wickets for 41 in the first innings. By a 

 strange coincidence Sussex in 1855 beat both 

 Kent and Surrey by the narrow margin of 

 2 runs, and had now beaten the former county 

 on seven successive occasions. Sussex also won 



' The match against England was for the benefit of 

 William Lillywhite, who took part at the age of 61. 

 Mr. C. G. Taylor re-appeared for this game, having 

 been out of good cricket for seven seasons. 



the inaugural match on the Bramhall Lane 

 ground at Sheffield, defeating Yorkshire by an 

 innings and 117 runs, Wisden compiling 148. 

 In the second effort of Sussex v. M.C.C. in 

 1856, the last five wickets fell for 6 runs, the 

 a gg re g at e being 23. England beat Kent and 

 Sussex by 4 runs owing to the terrific bowling 

 of Bickley, who took eight wickets for 7 runs. 

 It was a curious coincidence that in each of the 

 first two engagements of 1857, against M.C.C. 

 and Surrey respectively, Sussex scored totals of 

 227 for twice out. 



Ellis now succeeded the veteran Box as wicket- 

 keeper. The county had a bad experience at 

 the Oval, the two Surrey bowlers, Caffyn, nine 

 for 28, and Griffith, ten for 34, sending the men 

 of Sussex back for 35 and 31. Mr. F. P. Miller 

 made more runs than either of these poor 

 efforts in his solitary contribution of 64 for Surrey. 

 Griffith and Wisden playing for the combined 

 counties at Brighton, however, dismissed England 

 for 33 and 51, the last match under this title for 

 ten years. The season of 1858 saw Surrey 

 opposing Kent and Sussex, and winning by 24 

 runs after being in a minority of 116 on the 

 first innings, with Messrs. Lane and Burbrid^e 

 unable to play. Southerton, a player long 

 associated with Hampshire and Surrey, began his 

 career in the Sussex eleven in this season. 

 Assisting twenty-two Gentlemen of Sussex at 

 St. Leonards, Hooker took sixteen wickets of the 

 United England Eleven, a rare proportion. The 

 county in September met Manchester and won 

 by an innings and 41 runs, Ellis scoring 71 not 

 out. A big victory by 169 runs in 1859 over 

 Kent was notable for only one bye in a match 

 of 539 runs, in which Stubberfield, with 7 for 

 10, was mainly responsible for dismissing the 

 losers for 23. In 1860 the match with M.C.C. 

 at head quarters was played practically on mud. 

 Wells scored 55 out of 70 from the bat, and 1 1 

 out of 38. He was oddly out in the match 

 against Surrey, breaking the handle of his bat, 

 and the pod flying over his shoulders hit the 

 bails. In 1866 in the Kent match he hit his 

 wicket as the bowler was in the act of delivering 

 his ball, and in 1865 he trod on the stumps; the 

 only three occasions on which he ever was given 

 out ' hit wicket.' Against M.C.C. at Lewes 

 seven of the county team were run out. The 

 next year showed nothing of note; but 1862 in 

 the match with M.C.C. at Lord's, which Sussex 

 won by four wickets, there was no change of 

 bowling on either side, Stubberfield for the 

 county sharing the attack with James Lillywhite, 

 junior. This useful left-handed bat and slow 

 bowler was wonderfully trustworthy during the 

 low ebb to which the county sank. For North 

 v. South in 1872 at Canterbury he took all ten 

 wickets. When Kent beat Sussex by ten 

 wickets at Brighton in June 1862 the honours 

 went to Joseph Wells, who clean bowled Dean, 



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