WEST INDIANS WIN THIRD TEST

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27912, 8 March 1956, Page 11

WEST INDIANS WIN THIRD TEST

CRICKET

Nine-Wicket Victory Over

New Zealand

(From Our Own Reporter)

WELLINGTON, March 7.

Losing its last chance of extending the West Indies when two wickets fell at the start of play today for a single run, NewZealand was beaten in the fourth test match at the Basin Reserve by nine wickets. Only D. D. Taylor, who took his overnight score of 39 to 77 before he was out, offered the bowlers real opposition. He batted most capably, and his score is the highest made by a New Zealander in the series. Although it was a disappointingly abrupt ending—the match finished just before lunch—there were again some minor compensations. Taylor’s finished tatting was one of them. Another was the spirited hitting of the last man in, I. Sinclair, and a third was that for the first time the West Indies had to bat again. With 55 required to avert the follow on w hen play began and with five wickets in hand, New Zealand had some prospect of forcing the West Indies to make more than a mere handful of runs, but R. T. Barber and S. C. Guillen were both quickly out, and out to poor strokes.

Barber fell to the third ball of the morning. The first two bowled by S. Ramadhin were offbreaks which pitched about the middle or leg stumps. The third was a leg break which pitched just outside the off stump. Barber pushed at it, and inevitably the ball carried neatly to Goddard at slip.

Guillen fell into an even more obvious trap. Dewdney bowled him a couple of inswingers pitching about the leg stump, then reinforced his leg field and bowled another. Guillen deflected it to Goddard at leg slip. So from 141 for five the score became 142 for seven. But Taylor was undeterred. Twice in an over he hooked Dewdney for fours, and he became the second New Zealand batsman to score a half-century in the series. Beard at the other end was clearly unhappy, but he kept the ball out while 38 runs were added in 34 minutes. - In the first 35 minutes of the day, only Taylor made any runs, and although he had an occasional miss-hit he played some lovely strokes, and when Atkinson came on he hooked a short one for six. Beard then fell as Guillen had fallen, and when Taylor lifted an off-drive and was caught. New Zealand was still six runs behind. Taylor had

batted 133 minutes for his u 77, an innings of discrimination and quality. Sinclair was hopelessly muddled by Ramadhin for two agonising overs, but then hit a two, and a huge high drive over extra cover for ‘four made the scores level. Sinclair then delighted the small group of spectators ,by taking three fours off an over from Atkinson, but the little flutter of excitement ended with Cave pushing one back at Sobers. The West Indies needed only 13 to win, and when one short of victory Pairaudeau was easily taken at wide mid-off by Sinclair. For the West Indies the key player in this match was probably not. Weekes for once, but Atkinson, who’ led the batting recovery on the first day, bowled well in New Zealand’s first innings, and today brought his second innings figures to five for 66. If it was again a heavy defeat for New Zealand, at least there were pointers to a much more interesting game, competitively, at Auckland. The total takings for the match were £3814. Scores were:—

WEST INDIES First innings .. 404 Second Innings B. H. Pairaudeau, c Sinclair, b MacGibbon 8 A. P. Binns, not out .. 5 J. D. Goddard, not out .. 0 Extras .. .. 0

Total for one wicket 13 Fall of wickets: for 12. BOWLING O. M. R. W. A. R. MacGibbon 3 1 6 1 D. D. Beard 2.2 0 7 0 NEW ZEALAND First innings 208 Second Innings S. N. McGregor, c Binns, b Atkinson 41 L. S. M. Miller, c Binns, b Dewd- . " cy 7 , A. R. MacGibbon, b Atkinson .. 36 ( D. D. Taylor, c Pairaudeat » b Atkinson 77 ir J. R. Reid, b Atkinson 5 f J. E. F. Beck, b Smith 6 s R. T. Barber, c Goddard, b Ramadhin 5 T S. C. Guillen, c Goddard, b DewdO ney . . 0 A D. D. Beard, c Binns, b Atkinson ; g H. B. Cave, c and b Sobers I. McK. Sinclair, not out 18 v Extras (byes 2, no-balls 1) •’ a Total —- c 208 a Fall of wickets: >ne for 18. two for 1 82, three for 93. four for 99. five for € 121, six for 141, seven for 142. eight 180, nine for 185, ten for 208. d BOWLING O. M. R. W T. Dewdney 17 3 54 2 D. Atkinson 31 12 66 5 O. G. Smith 14 7 23 1 A. L. Valentine 15 9 18 o G. Sobers 8.5 4 11 1 1 K. T. Ramadhin 51 10 33 1 x s TEST AVERAGES The batting of r. d. Goddard. the player-manager of the West Indies team. has given him an average of 147 for the three tests played against New Zealand. K. T. Ramadhin has taker 18 wicket. for the West Indies, and for Nev Zealand J. R. Reid has taken six wickets. D. D. Taylor has the highest batting of 60. average. The players’ averages for the test matches are:— WEST INDIES Batting Inn. N.O. U.S. Ag. Av. J. D. Goddard .. 4 3 83* 147 147 E. D. Weekes .. 3 0 156 382 127.3 D. Atkinson .. 3 0 85 145 48.3 K. T. Ramadhin 3 0 44 92 30.7 G. Sobers .. 3 0 27 79 26.3 O. G. Smith .. 3 0 64 76 25.3 B. Pairaudeau .. 4 0 68 89 22.2 A. P. Binns .. 3 27 42 21 C. Depeiza .. 2 0 14 18 9 T. Dewdney .. 2 0 3 5 2.5 A. L. Valentine 2 0 2 2 H. Furlonge .. 1 0 0 0 0 F. King batted once for 1 not out. •No Bowling O. M. R. W. Av. G. Sobers .. 26.5 19 14 2 K. T. Ramadhin 143 61 249 18 13.8 O. G. Smith .. 80.5 34 168 12 14 D. Atkinson .. 76.2 27 135 9 15 A. Valentine .. 154.4 81 208 12 17.3 F. King .. 17 5 29 1 29 T. Dewdney .. 52 11 131 3 43.7 C. Depeiza .. 5 0 15 0 — NEW ZEALAND Batting Inn N.O. H.S. Ag. Av. D. D. Taylor .. 2 0 77 120 60 A. Moir .. 2 20 35 35 A. R. MacGibbon 4 1 36 104 34.7 J. E. F. Beck .. 6 0 66 151 25.2 B. Sutcliffe .. 4 0 48 93 23.2 D. D. Beard .. 2 1 17* 22 22 J. R. Reid .. 6 0 40 107 17.8 S. N. McGregor 6 0 41 93 15.5 L. S. M. Miller 4 0 31 61 15.2 S. C. Guillen .. 4 0 36 51 12.7 J. G. Leggat .. 2 0 17 20 10 R. T. Barber .. 2 0 12 17 8.5 I. Sinclair .. 4 1 18* 25 8.3 J. Guy .. 4 0 23 30 7.5 R. W. Blair .. 4 0 9 11 2.7 H. B. Cave .. 4 0 5 5 1.2 A. Lissette .. 4 2 !• 2 1 T. G. McMahon 2 0 2 2 1 •Not out. Bowling O. M. R. W. Av. R. W. Blair .. 49 9 156 5 31.2 A. R. MacGibbon 60 15 162 5 32.4 J. R. Reid .. 73.5 22 196 6 32.7 H. B. Cave .. 53 22 143 4 34.5 A. F. Lissette 48 16 124 3 41.3 D. D. Beard .. 36.2 9 97 1 97 I. Sinclair .. 38.5 9 120 1 120 A. Moir .. 19 3 79 0 — i B. Sutcliffe .. 2 0 16 0 —