CRICKET TEST

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22796, 23 August 1939, Page 10

CRICKET TEST

WEST INDIES AHEAD ON FIRST INNINGS LEAD OF 146 RUNS ENGLAND ONE DOWN FOR 54 ' AT LUNCH (UNITED PBE33 ASSOCIATION —COPTBIGHT.) (Received August 23, 2.15 a.m.) LONDON, August 22. At lunch on the third day of the final cricket test, England versus West Indies, England was one down lor 54, after West Indies had completed its first innings for 498, 146 runs ahead of England’s total. On the second day. West Indies took its first innings score to six for 395 when rain stopped play shortly after tea. The attendance was 21,000.

A perfect wicket gave not the slightest assistance to the _ bowlers. V. Stollmeyer and Weekes hit most freely,, adding 163 for the fifth wicket in-102 minutes. Scores:— ' ENGLAND First Innings .. •• 352 ENGLAND ; Second Inning* Hutton, not out .. •• 23 Keeton, b Constantine .. 20 Oldfield, not out • • • • 1 Extras .. • • • • ■ 4 Total for one wicket WEST INDIES First Innings Grant, c Goddard, b Perks .. 6 J. Stollmeyer, c Perks, b Hutton .. 59 Headley, run out • ■ -• -,®j V. Stollmeyer, st Wood, b Goddard 96 Gomez, b Perks ■ •• 11 Weekes, c Hammond, b Nichols .. 137 Constantine, c Wood, b Perks .. 79 Sealey, c Wright, b Nichols .. 24 Martindale, b Perks .. •• 3 Clarke, b Perks ... ** £ Johnson, not out .. • • 9 Extras : 7 Total .. .. . ■ • ,493 Bowling—Nicholls two for 161, Perks five for 156, Wright • none for . 53, Goddard one for 56, Hutton one for. 45, Compton none for 20.