O'REILLY SHINES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 7

O'REILLY SHINES.

SEVEN WICKETS. Australians Turn Leicester Out for 152. BRADMAN MISSED EARLY. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, May 6. The Australian cricketers on Saturday commenced a match against Leicestershire at Leicester. For the first time Bradman captained the Australian team, from which Woodfull, Wall, Grimmett, Oldfield and Chipperfield stood out. Chipperfield is indisposed and is confined to his room. Hβ will not be available for the match against Cambridge, which ■ will begin next Wednesday. Leicestershire won the toss and elected to bat. Play started an hour late owing to heavy rain in' the morning. Ram twice interrupted play before luncheon, when Dawson and Shipman had made 39 runs. The greasy *ball made the bowlers' task difficult, but O'Reilly was flighting cleverly and kept the batsmen subdued. The 4000 spectators present after luncheon saw O'Reilly in his first over bowl Dawson and Armstrong with successive balls. The total then was 45 for two wickets. O'Reilly was keeping a perfect length and soon had Shipman, who shaped nicely, caught at silly mid-on. O'Reilly continued to dominate the batsmen and again took two wickets with successive deliveries, namely, those of Hazelrigg and Weston. Then he confidently appealed for leg-before against Riddington off the next ball, but failed to achieve the hat trick. He had taken five wickets for 23 at this stage, and the total was 68 for five. The next two overs yielded two more victims to O'Reilly. The batsmen obviously knew little of his intentions. Having bowled unchanged for two hours O'Reilly was taken off at 124, and McCabe and Fleetwood-Smith shared the last three wickets. Leicestershire's innings, which yielded 152, had occupied 190 minutes. O'Reilly's bowling was reaftly great. He ended with an average of seven wickets for 39. Brown and Ponsford opened quietly for Australia, but with the total at 22 Ponsford was out leg-before. Bradman gave an early chance in the slips, but after that he and Brown batted confidently, although the latter gave two very difficult chances. Australia had made 01 for one wicket when stumps were drawn. Scores: — LEICESTERSHIRE.—First Innings. Dawson, b O'Reilly : 16 Armstrong, b O'Reilly 0 Shipman, c Bromley, b O'Reilly ... 30 Berry, c Ebeling, b O'Reilly 13 Hazelrigg, b O'Reilly 11 Weston, lbw, b O'Reilly 0 Riddington, b O'Reilly 7 Geary, b McCabe 14 Smith, b Fleetwood-Smith 20 Corrall, lbw, b Fleetwood-Smith ... 1 Astill, not out 25 Extras 15 Total 152 Bowling: O'Reilly took seven wickets for 39 runs (off* 24 overs' with 10 maidens), Fleetwood-Smith two for 40, McCabe one for 32, Ebelii-g none for 20. AUSTRALIA.—First Innings. Ponsford, lbw, b Geary ,9 Brown, not out 24 Bradman, not out 26 Extras 2 Total for one wicket 61 CAN DON BEAT IT?

SCORE 1000 RUNS IN 22 DAYS

(Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, May G. The "Daily Telegraph" states that as the result of an inquiry from an Australian source at Leicester, it is surmised that Bradman is out to beat the record of W. G. Grace (1895) and W. R. Hammond (1927) in scoring 1000 runs in 22 days.