CRICKET PLAYED BY TROOPS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23130, 20 September 1940, Page 10

CRICKET PLAYED BY TROOPS

♦ NEW ZEALAND BEATS AUSTRALIA

UNEXPECTED RESULT

[From the Official War Correspondent attached to the New Zealand Forces in Great Britain.]

ALDERSHOT, August 26.

New Zealand’s defeat of Australia In the military cricket match on Saturday was as decisive as it had been unexpected. However, it must be admitted that although accurate bowling and smart fielding both contributed to the win, it was principally due to weak Australian batting.

The second contingent of the Australian Imperial Force seems hardly representative of the Commonwealth’s cricketing talent. There was one Sheffield Shield player in the side, Signalman M. Brame, the skipper, and one of the opening batsmen who made 33 before breaking his wicket as a result of stepping back to Gillespie, and one Tasmanian representative. The others were mostly first-grade players, several of them from metropolitan districts; but none the less they developed a long tail. The turf wicket had something to do wifi it. In their camps the Australians have been playing—so far as they have played at all, which is no more than our men have—on clay wickets of somewhat equal pace to those to which they have been accustomed at home. Pitches in the Aldershot Command, on the contrary, are more like those in New Zealand. There might be a different tale to tell were the same two teams to meet at an Australian camp. The chances are that for the return match both sides will be a little stronger than they were this time. Our selectors are not yet satisfied that they have discovered the full cricketing strength of the echelon. Saturday’s game was arranged by the New Zealand and Australian Young Men’s Christian Associations, and tea was served from the New Zealand Y.M.C.A. Lowry mobile van, with Mrs A. P. F. Chapman in charge. Percy Chapman himself (Cambridge, Kent, and England) arrived shortly after the Interval and watched most of the Australian innings. Scores: — NEW ZEALAND C. Wareham (Wellington), run out .. 50 E. W. Tindill (Wellington), b Edgar .. 23 S, Betts (Taranaki), c. b Lines .. 15 G. F. Briggs (Wellington), b Edgar .. 2 P. Monk (Otago), b Cox .. .. 4 T. Morten (Canterbury), Ibw, b Edgar 6 Rev. E, Forsman (Poverty Bay), st, b Edgar .. .. .. .. 6 D. Barker, b Cox .. .. 0 W. Copeland (Wellington), b Edgar .. 14 H. Reanev (Hawke's Bay), st. b Edgar 5 A. B. Gillespie (South Canterbury), not out .. .. .. 6 Extras .. .. .. 4

Total .. .. ..135 Fall of wickets: One for 39. two for 70, three for 81, four for 92. five for 96, six for 97. seven for 107. eight for 108,- nine for 124. Bowling; Edgar, six for 46; Cox, two for 25; Lines, one for 43. AUSTRALIA M. Bratne, hit wicket, b Gillespie .. 33 J. McNamara, b Barker .. 12 O. H. Cox. c Wareham. b Barker .. 0 E. H. Lines, c Morten, b Betts .. 1 R. Hackworthy, c and b Monk .. 3 V. R. Filleul, c Tindill. b Monk .. 0 S. Edgar, c sub., b Betts .. .. 4 F. O’Leary, b Gillespie .. .. 0 J. B. Moull, c Copeland, b Betts .. 3 J. McAfferey, c Barker, b Gillespie .. 3 N. J. Daly, not out .. ' .. 5 Extras .. .. .. .. 5 Total .. .. .. 69 Fall of wickets: One for 22. two for 22, three for 27, four for 33, five for 33, six for 57, seven for 59, eight for 59, nine for 61. Bowling; Gillespie, three for 6; Barker, two for 12; Monk, two for 15; Betts, three for 27.