N.Z'S BEST SCORE OF ENGLISH TOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 7

N.Z'S BEST SCORE OF ENGLISH TOUR.

NORTHAfITS GAME. Dominion Compiles 334, Two County Men Out. DONNELLY AGGRESSIVE. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. When the New Zealand cricketers began a three days' match against Northamptonshire, at Northampton, the weather was fine, with the wicket hard and fast. On Page winning the toss, the New Zealanders batted first, and they compiled 334—the highest total of the tour. The county lost two wickets for 24 before stumps were drawn. The Northants team is: W. C. Brown, Snowden, Clark, Nelson, Timms, Davis, Brookes,, Partridge, Bus well, Grimshaw, and James.

The New Zealanders had a satisfactory £ day on the good wicket, and maintained a a scoring rate of more than a run a o minute all day. n Kerr and Tindill, in an attractive d partnership, gave the side a useful start, before the former played one well n off the wicket into his stumps. j Wallace and Donnelly added 96 in 80 g minutes. Wallace was not so free as usual, but played all strokes cleanly in a sound half-century. Donnelly was confident and aggressive. He drove, cut and pulled with fine freedom, and hit a dozen fours. His I attractive innings lasted just under two hours, before he was brilliantly caught, one-handed, at slip. Weir celebrated his birthday with his best innings of the tour. He batted with methodical deliberation, but he held the innings together after lunch as he saw four men come and go, being eighth man out. The last six wickets fell for 130 runs, before keen bowling and fielding. The feature of the latter was the capital wicked-keeping of K. C. James, the former New Zealander, who allowed only one bye and took two catches. Northants batted for 40 minutes, shaping in very restrained fashion against the steady bowling of Roberts and Dunning. Scores:— NEW ZEALAND.—First Innings. Kerr, b Clark 24 Tindill, c Buswell, b Tinims 28 i Wallace, c Davis, b Clark 50 i Donnelly, c Brown, b Davis 89 f Weir, b Buswell 50 ' Carson, 1) Partridge 14 * Page, c James, b Partridge 7 ' Roberts, c James, b Buswell 10 Lamason, c and b Partridge 22 i Gallichan,. not out 9 1 Dunning, c Brown, b Buswell 13 1 Extras 10 < Total 334 Bowling: Buswell and Partridge each took three wickets for 89 runs, Clark < two for 46, Davis one for 7, Timms one for 54, Grimshaw none for 12, Nelson none for 27. NORTHANTS.— First Innings. Grimshaw. c Roberts, b Dunning . . 9 Nelson, c Carson, b Dunning 3 Snowclen, not out 7 - Extras 5 Total for two wickets 24 Bowling: Dunning took two wickets for 14 runs. Besides Moloney and Wallace, the youthful Taranaki player. Donnelly is the only member of the New Zealand team to yet reach 200 runt, in the first-class games of the tour. He has made 218 runs for six innings, and in all of them has taken part in a useful stand. His average lof 36.33 is fourth highest, a run worse than the figures of the wicketweeper, E. W. Tindill, whose 187 rung are reckoned on five innings only, as the Wellingtonian was unbeaten in his other two. AUSTRALIAN WOMEN. BEAT KENT BY 83 EUNS. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. The Australian women cricketers l ■ opened their English tour with a match - against Kent. Scores:— ' Australians: First innings, three for ; 256, declared (Antonio 52, Peden 46,

Pritchard 74, Smith 68 not out).

Kent: First innings, 173 (Archdale 68; Flaherty seven for 33, Smith two for 34). Australia won by 83 runs.