AN EXCITING TEST VICTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 138, 13 June 1934, Page 7

AN EXCITING TEST VICTORY.

AUSTRALIA WINS BY 238 RUNS.

SPIN BOWLERS SHARE NINETEEN WICKETS.

While no doubt the end justified the means, Woodfull is bound to be generally criticised for leaving Australia's declaration so late Only on two occasions in Test history has 300 been scored to win, and both on Australian wickets in unlimited time. Yet the visitors continued yesterday until the impossible task of securing 379 runs to avert defeat was set England. Walters, Sutchffe, Leyland and Ames defended so stubbornly that the four and three-quarter hours allowed for dismissing the Englishmen looked like proving a tactical blunder, but a great pair of spin bowlers eventually finished the task with a bare ten minutes to spare, leaving Australia victorious by 238 runs. The game ended on an anti-cl.max of a leg-before decision. It was a dismal failure on part of the elect of England to score only 141 runs in nearly five hours play, in which the Englishmen's policy of adopting merely a defensive role largely contributed to the spin bowlers dominating the game to the extent they did. O'Reilly and Gnmmett took all but one English wicket in the match.