Who was killed by Jack the Ripper?

[Geddy2112]

I think given all the breaks and the over rate + average rate of play, about 4.00 pm finish seems about right if indeed it started at 11.00 am [ im fairly sure the match on the 1st Sept started at 11am . However , as you say it doesnt matter either way earlier or later as Steve points out in the Podcast ,he could have technically made it back to London early evening or as late as 10.37PM .

If a match started at 11am and only 80 odd runs was scored from both teams it would have been finished long before 4pm. There would have been no need for breaks. Two hours tops, with a break for innings.

[FISHY1118]

If a match started at 11am and only 80 odd runs was scored from both teams it would have been finished long before 4pm. There would have been no need for breaks. Two hours tops, with a break for innings.

You might wanna listen to the podcast from 26 mins to 28 mins . Its not just the runs scored that that determine the lenth of a cricket match when discussing time estimates, but the amount of overs bowled to score them , as is explain by Steve Blomer.


Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Podcast - Oh, Dear Boss: Druitt's on a Sticky Wicket

https://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=331

[GBinOz]

You might wanna listen to the podcast from 26 mins to 28 mins . Its not just the runs scored that that determine the lenth of a cricket match when discussing time estimates, but the amount of overs bowled to score them , as is explain by Steve Blomer.


Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Podcast - Oh, Dear Boss: Druitt's on a Sticky Wicket
https://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=331

Quite correct Fishy. This site shows some records of slow innings:

https://www.espncricinfo.com/records...-scored-283141

[Geddy2112]

You might wanna listen to the podcast from 26 mins to 28 mins . Its not just the runs scored that that determine the length of a cricket match when discussing time estimates, but the amount of overs bowled to score them , as is explain by Steve Blomer.

With all due respect to Steven I'll take my neigh on 30 years playing at a semi-professional levels worth of experience.

[FISHY1118]

With all due respect to Steven I'll take my neigh on 30 years playing at a semi-professional levels worth of experience.

I've been playing longer that, and I can promise you its often the case as to what I posted and what is said on the podcast.

Id be gobsmacked in all your 30 years did never experience a game or two that dragged on for many many overs for not much runs .

[Herlock Sholmes]

The question is could Druitt have had time to get to London? The answer to that question has to beyes. Now unless we are trying to suggest that the game (intended as a 2 innings game) began at 4pm with the players expecting to play in the dark or else it started earlier and for some bizarrely inexplicable reason the two teams just blocked and picked off a single every other over then I can’t really see an issue. There is only one conclusion…this cricket match categorically doesn’t give Druitt an alibi. So it’s a question of…did he?

If he was the ripper - yes
If he wasn’t the ripper - no

That’s basically the top and bottom of it.

[Fiver]

The question is could Druitt have had time to get to London? The answer to that question has to beyes. Now unless we are trying to suggest that the game (intended as a 2 innings game) began at 4pm with the players expecting to play in the dark or else it started earlier and for some bizarrely inexplicable reason the two teams just blocked and picked off a single every other over then I can’t really see an issue. There is only one conclusion…this cricket match categorically doesn’t give Druitt an alibi. So it’s a question of…did he?

If he was the ripper - yes
If he wasn’t the ripper - no

That’s basically the top and bottom of it.

That's the situation for most of the horde of named suspects. Most of them probably had alibis that could have been proven at the time, but there simply isn't enough information left to know for sure. Druitt's fellow players and the audience would have known how long the games lasted. Unless something new shows up, we can only estimate.