four o'clock
Charchester won the toss , and batted first on a perfect wicket . The first pair of batsmen were the captain , a great bat , who had scored seventy-three not out against Beckford in the previous match , and a left-handed fiend . Baynes 's leg-breaks were useless on a wicket which , from the hardness of it , might have been constructed of asphalt , and the rubbish the Bishop rolled up to the left-handed artiste was painful to witness . At four o'clock -- the match had started at half-past eleven -- the Charchester captain reached his century , and was almost immediately stumped off Baynes . The Bishop bowled the next man first ball , the one bright spot in his afternoon 's performance . Then came another long stand , against which the Beckford bowling raged in vain . At five o'clock , Charchester by that time having made two hundred and forty-one for two wickets , the left-hander ran into three figures , and the captain promptly declared the innings closed .