TEST AT LORD'S.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 147, 23 June 1934, Page 9

TEST AT LORD'S.

WYATT WINS THE TOSS.

ENGLAND SCORES 293 FOR FIVE.

A GREAT SIXTH WICKET PARTNERSHIP.

R. E. S. Wyatt began his captaincy of the English cricket eleven auspiciously by winning the toss in the second Test against Australia at Lord's yesterday. And, despite his badly damaged thumb, the gallant leader assisted his able substitute in the Trent Bridge game, Walters, to hold the fort in the initial crisis after Sutcliffe, Hammond and Hendren had fallen within the space of 29 runs.

Walters was going strongly foij his century, when he fell to a brilliant catch by Bromley, the youngest man on the field. It is strange that Woodfull did not try this only left-hander in the eleven when Leyland and Ames eventually collated the bowling and placed England into what appears to be an impregnable position. Chipperfield added to his prestige by some impressive

bowling

There wiTT be keen disappointment wherever cricket is played if the brilliant Yorkshire left-hander, still in with 95, misses his second hundred in Test cricket.