INNINGS VICTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 204, 29 August 1934, Page 7

INNINGS VICTORY.

SUSSEX OUT FOR 221.

Fleetwood-Sraith Again Takes

Five Wickets.

MELVILLE 22 OFF ONE OVER.

(Unit«d P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 9.30 a.m.)

LONDON, August 28.

In perfect weather, and on a good wicket at Hove, the Australian cricketers to-day defeated Sussex by an innings and 35 runs.

Requiring 256 to equal the Australians total of 560, James Parks and John Langridge put on 56 for the opening wicket. At this stage O'Reilly got Parks caught through miss-timing a spinner.

Bowley and Langridge were then associated in a partnership worth 100. Bowley drove extremely hard, while Langridge was sound. Although he went in an hour after Langridge, Bowley reached 50 first.

With the total at 156 Sussex lost three wickets. Langridge was easily caught after a stubborn innings of 135 minutes. Cook was absurdly run out the next ball, then Bowley gave a simple catch to Darling at mid-on. Of the remainder only Melville (captain) offered any resistance. Hβ hit Fleetwood-Smith for a sixer and four fours in the over in which he was dismissed. The innings of 221 lasted 220 minutes. In 80 minutes after lunch Sussex lost nine wickets for 90 runs. Scores: — AUSTRALIA. First innings 560 SUSSEX. First Innings.—For 8 wickets (dec.) 304 Second Innings. Parks (J.), c Bradman, b O'Reilly .. 32 Langridge (Jno.), c and b FleetwoodSmith 53 Bowley, c Darling, b O'Reilly .... 63 Cook, run out 0 Langridge (Jas.), c Ponsford, b O'Reilly 10 Parks (H.), Ibw, b Fleetwood-Smith 0 Pearce, c Brown, b O'Reilly 0 Melville, c Darling, b FleetwoodSmith 40 Eaton, b Fleetwood-Smith 0 Tate, c Ponsford, b Fleetwood-Smith 10 Cornford, not out ~ 0 Extras 13

Total

Bowling: Fleetwood-Smith took five wickets for 87 runs, O'Reilly four for 49, McCabe none for 7, Ebeling none for 21, Darling none for 22, Chipperfleld none for 22.

O'REILLY'S 100 WICKETS

FEATURES OF GAME AT HOVE,

The Sussex match had several noteworthy features. O'Reilly completed 100 wickets for the tour, while Darling and Kippax topped 1000 runs. The latter, in making his highest innings of tho tour (250) gave the Sussex bowlers another taste of his quality, for in the 1030 game Kippax scored a century in both innings, 158 and 102 not out. E. H. Bowley and Jas. Langridgc, who played for Auckland against Australia in 1028, met with fair success, Bowley top-scor-ing in tho county's second innings and Langridge making 57 in the first innings. Fleetwood-Smith requires only four more wickets to join O'Reilly (101) and Grimmett (113) on the hundred list.

MATCH AGAINST KENT.

PROLIFIC FREEMAN'S COUNTY,

The Australians conclude their programme of matches against first-class counties with a three-day fixture against Kent, starting to-day. Last year Kent was third in the county list, but has not fared quite so well this season, owing to the absence of Ames in Test matches. This batsman-wicket-keeper's injury in the final Test will also keep him out of the county game against the Australians. In 1930 the Australians, after having being dismissed cheaply by Freeman and Co., made a second innings recovery (Bradman 205), to draw the match.

With a large list of reserves to draw on, Kent is ever a strong batting side, with B. H. Valentine, L. J. Todd, W. H. Ashdown, F. E. Woolley, and H. T. Hardinge as the chief run-getters, while A. P. Chapman also plays for them at times. With Freeman, England's most prolific wicket-taker, and Marriott together, the comity's spin bowling is formidable, and it also has a good pace bowler in A. E. Watt, and Ashdown and D. Wright.arc valuable change bowlers.