Simpson Fails To Impress

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 23

Simpson Fails To Impress

(N.Z. Press Association-Copyright) ADELAIDE. The Australian test player, R. Simpson failed again yesterday in his cricket come-back. , ....

In the New South Wales second innings against South Australia in a Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide, Simpson was caught behind for a duck off a ball by fast medium bowler, D. Robins. With his score of 10 in New South Wales* first innings and yesterday's failure, Simpson may be struggling to regain his place in Australia's second test team to be chosen today. Simpson missed the first test because of an arm injury. New South Wales was , forced to follow on yesterday, ' after a hat-trick by Robins which brought a sensational end to the visitors’ first innings on the third day of the match. At the follow on, New South Wales was 181 runs behind and at stumps had scored 268 for five in its second innings. Robins, who finished with six for 62 off 15.3 overs began his onslaught after lunch at a time when New South Wales looked certain to save the follow on. He had Philpott caught at the wicket off the first ball of his fifteenth over. Then, with the first three balls of his sixteenth over, he dismissed Taber, Corling and Renneberg. This gave Robins four for two off 11 balls.

Doug Walters, who will be 20 today, finished with a brilliant unbeaten 113 after going to the wicket at a crucial time. It was Walters’s third firstclass century in successive matches.

N. o’Neill, fighting to get back into the test side, was unlucky to be out for 12 in the second innings when he back-cut a ball to the fence and hit his off-stump after making the shot. Grahame Thomas, another test candidate, hit a brilliant 131.