DRAMATIC GAME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 136, 11 June 1934, Page 7

DRAMATIC GAME.

FORTUNES FLUCTUATE Walters, Sutcliffe, Hammond, Leyland Out for 128. "KANGAROOS" HOP TO 374. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, June 10. The first cricket Test match between Australia and England was continued on Saturday at Trent Bridge, at Nottingham. When stumps were drawn on Friday the Australians in their first innings had lost five wickets for 207 runs, MeCabe (50) and Chipperfield (17) being not out. Yesterday Australia made a fine recovery, thanks to Chipperfield—who raised his total to 99—ably supported by Oldfield and Grimmett, and the innings dosed with the score at 374. The Englishmen had lost four good wickets for 128 when play ceased on Saturday at 0.30. These losses were due to Grimmett, who acfcpted a perfect length and pinned good batsmen down to occasional singles. It was a slow scoring game. When the match was resumed the weather was fine and sultry. Friday's light rain had not affected the wicket. Fames Gets McCabe. McCabe was in excellent form, hut in trying to glance Fames he cocked up the ball straight into the hands of Leyland. He had batted 130 minutes and given no chances. He hit seven fours. 231—0—05. Fames deserved another- success when Oldfield at four snicked a ball to the slips, which Sutcliffe failed to hold, though it was a comparatively easy catch. Chipperfield, playing delicately, placed several boundaries, chiefly at the expense of Fames. There were rapid changes of howlers, Hammond, Verity and Mitchell being tried. Chipperfield Has a "Life." When Chipperfield was 55 he tipped one over Hammond's head. The latter just touched it and caused the spectators to gasp. Oldfield, in reaching out to drive a legbreak from Mitchell, snicked it into Hammond's hands at fine slip. The partnership had added 47 in 55 minutes. 281 —7 —20. Grimmett boldly aided the process of recovery. Chipperfield had made 99 at the luncheon adjournment, Grimmett having rendered valuable help. Unlucky End to New Champion. The crowd increased to 30,000 after luncheon. Chipperfield was caught behind the wicket off Fames' second ball when he was still within ono run of establishing a record of a century on each of his first two appearances against English teams. It was unfortunate that he just missed his century in his first Test. He had batted 200 minutes and hit nine fours. He received a wonderful ovation on reaching the pavilion. The invaluable partnership with Grimmett had added 74 runs, 355—8 —99.

Grimmett stayed 85 minutes, often hatting with real skill, before he was howled by Geary. 374-*-9 —39. Then O'Reilly provided much fun owing to his inability to play Fames. 374—10—7. The last five wickets added 221 runs. English Skipper Leg-Bfifore. Walters and Sutcliffe opened England's first innings. They began quietly. Wall and McCabe were the bowlers. Grimmett displaced McCabe after three overs. @rimmett should have got Walters when he was five. He stepped out and snicked a ball, which Chipperfield dropped at fine slip. Runs came freely from O'Reilly, whom Sutcliffe twice cut to the boundary, but Walters was always unhappy against Grimmett. When the total was 45 Walters played forward to a top spinner, which kept low, and he was out leg-before. 45 —I—l 7. Sutcliffe and Hammond Fall Together. Hammond raised the lialf-century in an hour. Sutcliffe continued to bat exceptionally well. The pair were together at tea, when the score was 70 for one wicket. Hammond showed some stylish back play to Grimmett. Then came a period of bright batting by Sutcliffe, who sent several from Grimmett to the boundary and raised 100 in 130 minutes. Of this total he had made 62. Sutcliffe then jumped out to drive Grimmett, but the ball turned enough to beat the bat and Chipperfield, at fine slip, brought off a splendid catch. Sutcliffe had hit 10 fours. 102—2—62.

In tlie next over from O'Reilly Hammond, in attempting a big drive, mistimed and skied the ball. MeCabe took an easy catch behind the bowler. 10G — 3—25. Grimmett "Bags" Left-Hander. Grimmett obtained his third success by neatly catching Lcvland off his own bowling, the latter being deceived by the pace from the pitch. 114—4— G. Three wickets had fallen in 20 minutes. Patandi was most uncomfortable facing O'Reilly, who nearly had him caught and bowled when he was two. He just got his fingers on the ball. Pataudi afterwards was particularly cautious.

Hendren drove Grimmett to the boundary twice. Pataudi, however, was painful to watch. There were seven consecutive maidens from O'Reilly, and it took 45 minutes to make two runs. This pair survived until stumps were drawn. The innings so far has lasted 195 minutes. Grimmett's figures so far are three wickets for 43, off 30 overs. Scores: — AUSTRALIA.—First Innings. Woodfull, c Verity, b Fames 26 Ponsford, c Ames, b Fames 53 Brown, lbw, b Geary 22 Bradman, c Hammond, b Geary .... 29 McCabe, c Leyland, b Fames 05 Darling, b Verity 4 Chipperfield, c Ames, b Fames .... 99 Oldfield, c Hammond, b Mitchell .. 20 Grimmett, 1> Geary 30 O'Reilly, b Fames 7 Wall, not out 0 Extras 10 Total 374 Fall of Wickets.—One for 77, two for 88, three for 125, four for 140, five for 153, six for 234. seven for 281, eight for 355, nine for 374. BOWLING ANALYSIS. Overs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. Fames .... 40.2 10 102 5 Geary 43 8 101 3 Mitchell ... 21 4 62 1 Verity 34 9 05 1 Hammond . 13-4 29 0 Leyland ... 1 0 5 0 ENGLAND.—First Innings. Walters, lbw, b Grimmett 17 Sutcliffe, c Chipperfield, b Grimmett 62 Hammond, c McCabe, b O'Reilly .. 25 Pataudi, not out G Leyland, c and b Grimmett 6 Hendren, not out 10 Extras 2 Total for four wickets 128 Fall of Wickets. —One for 45, two for 102, three for 100, four for 114. The Englishmen have still to go in, and the probable batting order is: Ames, top of county averages; Verity, lefthander who did well with bat in Australia; Geary, who figured in century partnership with Macaulay, Yorkshire medium-paced bowler, in third Test at Leeds 1926; Fames and T. B. Mitchell, neither of whom has any pretensions to batsmanship.

While ChipperficM required only one run to join the select band of seven Australians to notch a century on first appearance in a Test (C. Bannerman, H. Graham, R. J. Hartigan, R. A. Duff, H. L. Collins, W. H. Ponsford, A. A. Jackson in that order; Duff also scored a hundred in his final game), the Newcastrian shares an unenviable honour with two distinguished countrymen. In the whole history of Test cricket, extending over 130 encounters, only two other 99's have been registered, both by Australians—C. G. Macartney at Lord's in 1912 and Clem Hill at Melbourne in 1901-02. The latter was batting in the second innings, and remarkably enough his next two innings, in the third Test against Archie Maclaren's eleven at Adelaide, were 9S and 97. That was rather an unpleasant kind of "hat-trick" for the great South Australian left-liander. Australia won both of Hill's games, perhaps a happy augury for Chipperfield.

The cablegram states Chipperfield went within a run of establishing a record of a century on each of his first two appearances against English teams. Really, Chipperfield scored centuries in his first three matches against Englishmen: 152 for Northern Districts against Jardine's team at Newcastle; 175 against Esse* and 110 not out against Hampshire. Had he scored that single he would have put up a really unique record. He vied with Woodfull and Bradman in being the only Australians to score a century on a iirst appearance in England, and the extra run would have given him 100 on his first Test appearance, a feat neither of the other two had accomplished. It would have been something to look back to for htm to have a hit a century against Fames (Essex) in his initial two innings against England's new and successful fast bowler. The Essex representative clean bowled Woodfull and McCabe in the county engagement, and Hammond in the Test trial.

Grimmett's heartening success with both bat and ball will cause joy . throughout the world of sport in this, country, as Clarrie is a New Zealander. He has now taken 84 wickets in Test cricket,