CRICKET.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 121, 4 March 1939, Page 6

CRICKET.

SIR JULIEN CAHN’S ELEVEN DEMPSTER MAKES CENTURY The sky was overcast and the weather threatening when Dempster (49) ana Oldfield (7) resumed Sir Julien Cahn s Eleven’s first innings against Otago. Leader and Groves took up the attack. Dempster reached 60 with a .powerful off drivfc off Groves. In the same ov-eir Oldfield went out to a -wellpitched ball and missed. Mills removed bis bails. Four for 123. Jackson, who was the next batsman, swung the first ball he received to the square leg boundary. The batsmen were infusing more vigour than was the case yestei’day. Dempster at 66 lifted Groves hard to Moloney. The fieldsman dropped the chance, and the ybatsmen celebrated his escape by sweeping the next hall to the boundary backward of square leg. Nimmo gave way to Leadejr. Jackson steered his first ball through the slip field for two. Dempster brought up 150 in 157 minutes. The rate of scoring had been accelerated. A full toss from Groves was despatched past point for four. A stinging off drive by Dempster for another. boundary made him 79. At the luncheon adjournment Sir Julien Cahn’s team had scored 228 for •five wickets. At 2.30 the visitors had scored 250 for six. Details: — OTAGO First Innings Knight, st Maxwell, b Watts ... 53 Uttley, c Jackson, b Phillipson ... 0 Robertson, b Jackson ... ... 28 Moloney, b Smith ... ... 25 Elmes, C Phillipson, b Smith ... 6 Cameron, b Phillipson ... ... 0 Mills, c Maxwell, b Phillipson ... 3 Groves, lbw, b Smith. ... 24 Leader, b Smith ... ... ... 5 Hunt, lbw, b Watts ..." ... 8 Silver, not out ... 15 Nimmo, c Heane, b Smith ... 3 Extras ••• 14 Total ... 184 Bowling: Phillipson three for 33, Watts two for 28,-Smith five for 56, Jackson one for 15, Walsh none for 33. SIR JULIEN CAHN’S TEAM First Innings (Dyson, h Nimmo ... ... 8 Dempster, not out ... ... 126 Heane, lbw, h Leader ... 31 Havdstaff, c Groves, b Lender ... 7 Oldfield, st Mills,' b Groves ... 11 Jackson, b Groves ... ... ••• 47 Maxwell, c Moloney, b Silver ... 12 Extras 8 Total for six wickets ... 250 FIFTH TEST IN SOUTH AFRICA HOME TEAM’S GOOD START (Received This Day, 9.55 n.m.) CAPE TOWN, March 3. In the fifth test .against the M.C.C. . 1 at Durban, South Africa won the toss

and elected to bat on a. perfect wicket. The Marylehone Cricket Club team is as follows—Hammond, Ames, Gibb, Hutton, Paynter, Valentine, Verity, Edrieh, Fames, Perks, Wright. Goddard and Wilkinson, who played in the fourth test, liavq been replaced by Perks and Wright. The South African team, the same as for the fourth test, is—Melville, Van der Biji, Rowan, Mitchell, Nourse, Langton, Dalton, Newson, Viljoen, Gordon, and another. Determined to wear down the bowling the opening batsmen took 111 minutes in raising 59. Van der Bijl was at the wickets forty-five minutes before scoring. Verity bowled nine con- ' secutive maidens. The first boundary of the match came after 130 minutes off a 110-ball. Van der Bijl, who took 210 minutes to make 50, tlieif scored 22 from one over from Wright. He also lifted the •same bowler over the roof of the pavilion. Van der Bijl’s century occupied 287 minutes. Scores: — SOUTH AFRICA First Innings Melville, hit wic., b Wright ... 78 Van der Bijl, not out 105 Rowan, lbw, b Perks 33 Mitchell, not out 4 Extras 0 Total for two wickets ... 229 , Bowling : Fames none for 54, Perks one for 33, Wright one for 64, Verity none for 39, Hammond none for 21, Edrieh none for 9. Bad light stopped play early.