Cricket Indians Draw At The Oval

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28963, 3 August 1959, Page 13

Cricket Indians Draw At The Oval

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LONDON, July 31. Surrey made a bold attempt to snatch the game from the Indian cricketers at the Oval today, but found the task of scoring 80 to win at the rate of two a minute too great, and had lost five wickets for 64 at the elose. A fine defiant innings of 56 by j Polly Umrigar enabled the Indians to save the match. They had lost eight wickets for 99 and had a lead of only 39 when Surendra Nath joined Umrigar with 80 minutes left. Umrigar shielded his colleague from the spin of G. A. R. Lock, who claimed five for 49 in the innings, and punished any loose ball. Scores . INDIANS First innings .. .. .. 154 Second Innings P. Roy, st Swetman. b Lock .. 6 A. L. Apte, c Swetman. b Lock 6 A. A. Baig, run out .. 33 P. G. Nadkarni. lbw. b Lock .. 42 P. R. Umrigar, c Barrington, b Hall .. .. .. 56 J. M. Ghorpade, b Gibson .. 2 A. G. Kripal Singh, c Stewart, b Lock • • .. 0 M. L. Jaisimha. b Lock .. 0 N. S. Tamhane, c Lock, b Gisborne 1 Surendra Nath, c and b Hall .. 9 S. P. Gupte, not out .. 0 Extras .. . • .. 2 Total .. .. .-139 Fall of wickets; one for 11. two for 18. three for 58, four for 82. five for 92, six for 92. seven for 92. eight for 99, nine for 133. Bowling O. M. R. W

SURREY First Innings •• -.214 Second Innings M. J. Stewart, hit wicket, b Surendra Nath .. •• K. F. Barrington, not out .. 25 D. G. W. Fletcher, c Jaisimha. b Surendra Nath " 1 B. Constable, b Umrigar 0 R. Swetman, hit wicket, b Surendra Nath •• •• i E. A Bedser. not out .. < Extras • • “ _ Total for five wickets .. 64 Fall of wickets: one for 7, two for 130 three for 44. four for aO, five toi 53.’

County Matches (N.Z Press association— copyngnt) LONDON. August 1 Close-of-play scores in todays county cricket matches were :- At the Oval: Surrey 214 lor eight (D. Fletcher 56, D. Gibson 52 not out) v. Nottinghamshire. Rain cui--3 Leyton: Essex 284 for six (f. Bailey 74 not out, B. Knight 83 not out) v. Worcestershire. Rain curldAtdSheflield; Lancashire 313 for six (G. Pullar 109. K. Grieves 63. B Booth 57 not out) v. Yorkshire. At Canterbury: Kent 80. v. Hampshire 127 for three (H. Horton 73. J A?*Hove: Middlesex 289 (P. Parfitt 53 not out) v. Sussex (18 for three). At Derby: Leicestersnire 320 foi nine (W. Watson 150, M. Hallam 78. v. Derbyshire. At Bristol: Gloucestershire 184 (C Milton 52) v. Somerset 19 without 10 At Edgbaston: Northamptonshire 257 for nine declared (M. Norman IU9, P. Watts 63) v. Warwickshire 9 without loss. , . , Results of matches concluded yesteroay were:— At Chesterfield: Derbyshire la 4 and 294 (A. Hamer 79, I. Buxton 79) drew with Glamorgan 252 lor nine ueclared and 60 without loss. At Worksop: Kent 311 and 66 without loss beat Nottinghamshire 142 and 232 (R. Simpson 43. J. Springnail 53, M. Hill 62 not out) by lu tickets. , At Blackpool: Lancashire 389 for six declared and 222 for four declared (A. Wharton 122 not out, G Pullar 84) drew with Warwicksnire 332 and 247 tor six (W. Stewart 125. A. Townsend 80). At Worcester: Somerset 199 and 418 for six (G. Atkinson 100, G. Lomax 67, C. McCool 101. W. Alley 95) drew with Worcestershire 383. At Portsmouth: Middlesex 292 for six declared- and 187 for four declared (R. White 52 not out) beat Hampshire 161 and 116 (J. Warr seven for 38) by 201 runs. At Leicester: Yorxshire 218 and 222 for three declared (D. Padgett 89 not out, R. Illingworth 63 not out) □eat Leicestersnire 132 and 230 (M. Hallam 57) by 78 runs. At Hove: Sussex 185 and 158 for nine declared (J. Parks 80 not ou:) drew with Essex 153 for nine declared (N. Thompson five for 37). At Bristol: Gloucestershire 135 and 195 for eight (O. Young 108 not out, R. Nicholls 43) beat Northamptonshire 142 and 185 (R. Subba Row 101, D. Smith six for 66) by two wickets.

D. A. D. Sydenham 10 3 15 0 D. Gibson 19 10 24 2 G. A. R. Lock .. 29 13 49 5 E. A. Bedser 11 5 13 0 J. K. Hall 10.5 0 35 2 K. F. Barrington 3 2 1 0

Bowling O M. R. W Surendra Nath 5 0 28 4 34 1 Umrigar 5 0