TEST CHANGES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 190, 14 August 1939, Page 14

TEST CHANGES.

ENGLISH XI. TO MEET WEST INDIES (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 13. The Encli«h team to play West Indies in the final Test at the Oval, starting on Saturday next, will be: W. R. Hammond (captain), L. Hutton, W. W. Keet'on, J). C. S. Comipton, J. Hardstaff. M. S. Nichols, A. Wood, D. V. P. Wripht, T. W. Goddard, R. T. D. Perks and X. Oldfield.

Of the team which played a draw at Manchester, E. Paynter, A. Fagj;, W. E. Bowes and W. H. Copson liave been replaced by Keeton, Nichols, Perks and Oldfield.

Nichols played at Edn Park in 1030 with Harold Gilligan's M.C.C. team, and Oldfield was here last season witfh Sir .Tulien Cahn'e side. Keeton ie the Notts batsman who made 312 not out against Middlesex at Lord\s in .July, and Perks is Worcestershire's fast l>owler, who went to South Africa Tast autlimn with the Marylebone Club. As the Englishmen won the first Te»t at Lord's by eight wickets, the West Tndiar.fi need a victory to square the rubber. The visitors won t*he 'series against K. E. S. Wyatt's side in the Islands in 193.").

CLOSE GAME ON FIRST INNINGS.

LONDON. August 13. Tn the cricket match at Cheltenham the scores r.t the end of the first day's play West Indies. 162 (Scott four for 60). Gloucestershire, 149 for eight wickets.