ALL SQUARE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 149, 26 June 1934, Page 7

ALL SQUARE.

ENGLAND WINS BY INNINGS.

AUSTRALIANS ANNIHILATED IN TEST.

VERITY TAKES FIFTEEN WICKETS FOR 104.

Rain over the week-end, and again when the second cricket Test at Lord's was about to be resumed yesterday, affected the pitch. This particularly suited Hedley Verity, the Yorkshire left-hand spin bowler to such advantage that the remaining eight Australian wickets fell for only 92 runs additional to the 192 scored on Saturday. The innings closing for 284 enabled R. E. S. Wyatt, the English captain, to enforce the follow-on rule, which provides for only 150 runs ahead in England compared to 200 in Australia.

Verity wound up with the fine figures of seven wickets for 61 runs, off 35 overs, of which 15 were maidens. His Yorkshire compatriot, W. E. Bowes, captured the remaining three wickets, and Verity went on to a more sensational success in the second innings, taking eight wickets for 43 off 22 overs (nine maidens). Australia were turned out for the miserable total of 118, England won by an innings and 38 runs, and the Yorkshire player equalled the Test record of his north countryman, Wilfred Rhodes, who captured 15 wickets when England beat Australia by 185 runs, at Melbourne, New Year, 1904..

Only Chipperfield and Woodfull could hold the fort, while the young left-handers Darling and Bromley failed when expected to do better than the right-handers. While England was favoured with the luck in this Test, no doubt the result will be generally welcomed and lend zest to the remaining grimes of the rubber.