COUNTY CRICKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 127, 1 June 1938, Page 21

COUNTY CRICKET.

RAIN PLAYS GREAT HAVOC. SOMERSET THE ONLY WINNER. WELLARD AND GOVER ARI> DESTRUCTIVE. . I (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON", May 31. Rain all over England seriously interfered with the series of county cricket matches which commenced on Saturday, only one being finalised. Results and principal performances:— Derbyshire v. Sussex.—No play; match abandoned. Glamorgan: First innings 100 (Fames four for 28, P. Smith five for 34), v. Essex; abandoned. Gloucestershire: First innings, five for 324, declared (B. O. Allen 50, Barnett 57, Hammond 57, Crapp 116 not out). Warwickshire: First innings* one for 148 (Santall 75); abandoned. Lancashire: First innings, five for 174 (Oldfield 74), v. Leicester; abandoned. Notts: First innings, four for 290 (Harris 81), v. Hampshire; abandoned. Northants: First innings, 166 (Nelson 76; Wellard five for 52, Buse five for 56); second innings' 165 (Wellard seven for 76). Somerset: First innings, 271 (Lyon 122 not out); second innings*, seven for 65 (Buswell five for 32). Somerset won by three -wickets. Surrey: First innings, 192 (Jackson four for 39, Perks four for 47); second innings, 101 (Perks six for 38). Worcestershire: First innings, 132 (Gover seven for 50); second innings, seven for 63 (Gover seven for 35). Surrey won on the first innings. Kent: First innings, one for 78, v. Yorkshire; abandoned. Cambridge University: First innings, 169 (Stephenson five for 56); second innings, one for 79. The Army: First innings, eight for 387, declared (Grove 106, Packe 176). The match was drawn. I A. W. Wellard," who took twelve wickets for Somerset, and A. R. Gover, who captured seven in each innings for Surrey, played alternately in the 1937 Tests against New Zealand* a* the fast bowler. Neither was chosen for the Test trial which was due to commence at Lord s to-day.