COUNTY’ CRICKET

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26121, 25 May 1950, Page 5

COUNTY’ CRICKET

LONDON. Mav 23. County cricket matches resulted:— Gloucestershire: first innings 352 (Young 135: Jackson five *for 901; second innings, none for 36. shire: first innings 164 and followedofi 223 (Kenyon 108. Howorth 79 not out: Lambert five for 62). Gloucestershire won by 10 wickets. Leicestershire: first innings 80 (Shackleton eight for 39); second innings 213 (Shackleton four for 43); Hampshire: first innings 191 (Sperry | five for 47): second innings four tor 193. Hampshire won by six wickets, j Essex: first innings 232 (Avery 881 - : second innings 108 (A. Bedser five for 29; Laker four for 34). Surrey; first in- I rnV^ s (Parker 93; P. Smith six for 59): second innings 142 (P. Smith seven for 54). Essex won by 17 runs Kent: first innings 173; second in<nings 201 (Muncer five for 47). Glamorganshire: first innings 293 (E Davies 83: Wright seven for 127); second, innings four for 85. Glamorganshire won by six wickets. Northamptonshire: first Innings 164 Butler five for 57); second innings six for 282 (Livingston 94. Davis 80 not out). Nottinghamshire: first innings : for 232 declared (Hardstaff 119)' The match was drawn. Lancashire: first innings 236 (Hollies I five for 53): second innings 244 i Place 101 not out). Warwickshire: first in- ! mars 228 (TaHersal! nine for 69'.second innings 99 fHi'fnn four for 33)' Lancashire won bv 153 runs. Yorkshire: first innings, nine for 28-‘ , Su T x: flrst ’OU w ar ri„ fn ur fcr 22 , anr , fol , owed on 150 (Wardle five for 18). v orltshirc won by an innings and 21 runs. Derbyshire: first innings 220 I (Hazel! nine for 76). Somersetshire’ flr j J n ," in S ? 62 (Rhodes five for 14) I and followed c.n eight for 155. The match was drawn.