CRICKET.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 255, 9 August 1933, Page 6

CRICKET.

FINAL TEST AGAINST INDIES JARDINE UNABLE! TO PLAY (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) August 8. In consequence of the Injury to his leg D. R. Jardine will he unable to captain England in the final Test match against West Indies. His successor has not yet been selected. HOBBS’ 196th CENTURY. VOCE BOWLS LEG THEORY (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. The pact between Carr (Notts) and Dawson prohibiting bodvline bowling was not extended to the Oval where Voce bumped the ball undisguisedly to the leg trap and snared

Squires’s wicket, greeted Barling with two deliveries high over the head and then knocked the bat out of Hobbs’s hand, causing the spectators to barrack angrily. Twenty thousand rose and cheered, for several minutes, Hobbs’s 196th century, which critics applaud. It contained nearly every shot and was begun at the crisis, when Voce with the leg theory, had taken two wickets for 11 runs. Voce never seemed to really worry Hobbs, although ho struck him on the lvip, causing the spectators to yell .to Carr “Play the game; take him oil'.” A FIRST WICKET RECORD BOWLEY AND JOHN LANGRIDGE ■(Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. Playing for Sussex against Middlesex Bowley and John Langridge compiled 490 runs for the first wicket in 350 minutes The partnership eclipses the first wicket record of 368 put u-> by Bowley and Parks in 1929, also the record by Bowley and Tato for 385 for the second wicket in 1921. TWO THOUSAND RUNS. HENDREN AND AMES. (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. Hendren (Middlesex) and Ames (Kent) have reached 2000 runs for the season. NEW ZEALAND PLAYERS (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. In the Lancashire League competition 1. B. Oromb (New 1 Zealand) scored 87 runs and took two wickets. W. E. Merritt, another New Zealander, scored 22 runs and took eight wickets.

WEST DEFEATS GLAMORGAN (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. West Indies defeated Glamorgan by 10 wickets. With a first innings score of 215, in the second innings the County scored 197 (Acliong took four wickets for 70). West Indies, with 463 for their first innings, scored the necessary 30 runs without loss. COUNTY MATCHES IN BRITAIN (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. County cricket matches resulted as follows: — Notts, first innings, 379 (Keeton 129, A. Staples 100); second innings, 281. Surrey, first innings, 418 for nine declared (Hobbs 133, Fender not out 100). Second innings, 78 for none, surrey won on the first innings. Gloucester, first innings, 367 (Barnett III) ; second innings, 178 for eight declared. Somerset, first innings, 325 (C. Parker six for 147); second innings, 114 (C. Parker six for 22). Gloucester won by 106 runs. first innings, 344 (Mead 87); second innings, 359 for seven declared (Mead 135, Potliecary 95). Kent, first innings, 389 (Ashdown 106, Ames 79); second innings, 85 for none. Kent won on the first innings. Derby, first innings, 448 ior eight declared (Townsend not out 172) ; second innings 148 for four declared. Warwick, first innings, 197 (Wyatt not out 102); second innings, 92 (Mitchell four for 48). Derby won by 317 runs. Sussex, first innings, 512 for three declared (Bowley 283, John Langridge 195). Middlesex, first innings, 2SO (Hendren 79). Followed on 157 (Allen 80 • James Langridge five for 33; Tate four for 26). Sussex won by an innings and 65 runs. Yorkshire, first innings, 296 (Barber 81); second innings, 153 for three. Lancashire, first innings, 431 (Hopwood 120, Hawkwood 113). Lancashire won on. the first innings. North ants, first innings, 299 (Bakewell 192); second innings, 152 for seven declared. Leicester, first innings, 169: second innings, 283 for six. Leicester won by four wickets. Essex, first innings, 477 (Eastman 100). Worcester, first innings, 227 (Fames five for 74). Followed on, 472 for three (Walters 134, Pataudi not out 231). Essex won on the first innings. REPRESENTATIVE MATCHES. CHRISTCHURCH, August 8. The management committee of the Canterbury Cricket Association decided to-night to agree to December 23, 25, 26, and 27 as the dates for the annual match against Otago, December 30, January 1,2, and 3 for the match against Wellington and January 6,8, 9, and 10 for the Auckland match.