MEDIUM BATTING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 92, 11 January 1908, Page 5

MEDIUM BATTING.

, THIRD TEST. COLONIALS ONLY FAIR ON A • GOOD wicket: COLTS DOING THE WORK, •x T^-KQttArn—niEss i association —copiaiGHT. '' (Rec. Jan. 10, 9.18 p.m.) Adelaide, January 10. •T]ie Third Test Match was begun in delightfully cool weather! - The attendance was ''' At drawing of stumps • nino (rickets wero down for 279.! • , Tho recent illness of A. 0. Jones, the English captain,'; preventpd his coming to 'Adelaide. Blytho (the slow bowler who was ■ recently. suffering- from'. a severe cold. coni traotcd at Bendigo), 'Hayes, and Young wore also left out. : . ■ '■ ■ ■ Australia's twelfth,man is.Roy Hill (South 'Australia). -Hartigan (Queensland), and I O'Connor (the' South Australian bowler), roplace, Cotter.and Hazlitt. Trumper id almost spccchless with a heavy cold, and C. Hill is mlso suffering, from a cold. . TRUMPER AND NOBLE OUT. • Noble won tho toss from Fane,- and. Noble »nd Trumper began Australia's innings on . • # perfect wicket. Noble.began with a square leg hit; to the boundary, off Fielder. Trumpor snicked Barnes's first ball for three, and the' two overs j'ielded ll runs. In''Fielder's second, oyer Trumper tried a leg glanco/and was howled'of! bis'pads, tho first wicket falling for 11 riius. Clem Hill, having; a -.sovere cold,i was kept back in the liope,'of not being .wanted till Saturday. Macartney . was -promoted,- and : set to business with the confidence of a vetoran. Runs tamo rapidly. 1 ' At 35 Noble, back .cut a ball from' Barnes itraighti tOiHutchings at, second slip. 1 MACARTNEY SHAPES. WELL. MaoAlister opened : with extreme caution. Macartney,.; with; a pretty , four off Fielder, made tho total, oO for; somin. play..The - fielding'.;was" close and accurate, arid kept down-. runs. ; Fane; made a double bowling , change to Crawford and Rhodes, and runs came: faster, Macartney twice,, in, one over outtlng,;E,hodes to the boundary. • • MaoAlister took 35min. to reach, doublo figures!''!!'At, lunch two wickets were down ifpr 79—Macartney 40, M'Alister 16. : .When the' game was .resumed, Fielder and Barnes bowled, and ten overs produced , only .13 runs. Rhodes relieved Fielder at 92, • but >the batsmen scored off him, and the''.-'century was' reached in lhr. and 59 jriiri.' v,' "Crawford, relieved Barnes at 106, and in . the'second over had MaoAlister caught at second '* slip.' MaoAlister. batted 93min.— thrJo'wickets 'for 114. ' ARMSTRONG CAUTIOUS. -Armstrong opened cautiously. Braund relieved^* -Rhodes at 130, and ;at 140 got Macartney leg before. The Sydney .' midget batted- 'flawlessly for lhr. and 53min.; He hit : nine, fours, 'and did not give a chance. •Ransford 1 began vigorously.' At 160 Armstrong .was caught at short-stop. ' • Hill ■'batted • steadily,: "but-JRansford punished Fielder f and ..Barnes!.. At, tea. ad-jourriment-the (score-was : -Ransford . 82, Hill 2,- total 182. • • Fielder and Barnes wero the bowlers after tea-' Ransford drove the former to tho bound&ry.■<

•'.With 5 the totalat 191,1 Hill tried to smother a good length ball from Barnes, and was caught nt the wicket. Hartigan opened with a single off Barnes.. ' ■ COLTS PLAY WELL. With all the Australian champion batsmen out,',the Englishmen, who had worked most energetically, all day, set to work with redoubled vigour. Their bowling was / accurate arid their fielding was brilliant in the extreme. ...... Hartigan, with a couple of braces off Barnes to leg, brought' up 200, which had obcupied 204min. Hartigan at 6 had a narrow, escape, t as he glanced a ball from Fielder just over - the heads of the slips. Next ball ho drove for 4. v With 215 up Ransford, in trying to glance Barnes,'was bowled. He played delightful crisp cricket, scoring, all round the wicket. Ho, batted'63min;, and hit six fours. • Carter . joined Hartigan, and Rhodes and Brautid were tried with tho ball. Hartigan was batting., stylishly, anil scored at a fair rate. ■ CARTER STODGY. .' Garter took'2smin. toVeach ten. Rhodes handed the hall to Crawford' at 24G, and Carter got 4 off each bowler. ' |

The total .of 250 went up in. 252min. Hartigan reached 40 by square cutting Crawford to-tho boundary, tie drove the next bail for 4.

•■Fioider relieved Braund at 267, In tho first over Carter, when 23, snicked a ball high, and Braund, jumping, got it on the tips of his fingers, but pould riot hold it. At 273 Hutchings Went on at Crawford's end, and got Carter l.b.w. with his fifth ball. Tho first ball of Fielder's next over bowled Hartigan. '

' Tho Queenslander played a splendid dashing innings of 75inin. without a chanco, and hit'; six fours. O'Connor and Saunders played out time. ' The, Englishmen fielded superbly all day. Hutchings; particularly was brilliant. The details:of the scores aro as under:— , AUSTRALIA. I FIRST . INNINGS. ■ , ■ Noble, c. Hutchings, b. Barnes 15 Trumper, b. Fioider ... ... ••• 4 Macartnoy, 1.b.w., b. Braund ... ... 75 MacAlister, c. Hutchings, b. Crawford... 28 Armstrong, c. Humphries, b. Fielder ... 17 Ransford, b. Barnes ... , ••• 44 Hill, c. Humphries, b. Barnes 5 Hartigan, b. Fielder • ••• 48 Carter, 1.b.w., b. Hutchings 2--O'Connor, not out ..., Saunders, not out Extras ... ••• 1 Total, for nino wickets 27£

Tho seventeenth Test Match was the first to be plaved at tho Adelaide Oval. That was in-December, 188-1. Australia, led by W. L. Murdoch, scored. 243—P. S. M'Donnell 124, J. M. Blackliani GG-and 191—M'Donnell 83, Or. Gif Ton 47. England—tho team was known as Shaw and Shrewsbury's—totalled 360 —W. Barnes (Notts)'l3l, W. 11. Scotton (Notts) 62, G lliyett (Yorkshire) 03—anil 57 lor two wickets, the, Englishmen thus winning by eight The'next match played at Adelaide was by lord Sheffield's team in -1892, and proved a runaway victory for England by an innnigfl and 230 runs. S. Callaway, who now resides in Christchureh, was unable to play for Australia' owing to the death of a relative. -L lie vacancy was filled by 11. Dounaii. Tho first 6trike only netted 100 for Australia, and the second IGJ). _ , ~ The fortv-first match saw A. E. Stoddarts 1804-05 combination defeated by 362 runs. Aus-'->iu Minrnd 238 in the first innings, fatod-

dart's • second combination, which included A. C. M'Larfen and Ranjitsinhji, received a drubbing to the. extent of an innings and 13 runs. Australia ivon tho toss ami rattled on 573, which is a . marked difterenco to tho- -iU for nino wickets of the present day. The forty-ninth match on the Adelaide wicket wan won by Australia' from A. 0. M'Laren's combination by four wickets. Australia's * first innings score, after their opponents.had notched 338, was 321.' The hnglish team included A. 0. Jones, L. C. Braund, S. P. Barnes, and C. Blytho, of the present English team. Will they havo their revengo? Warner's team wns also defeated' by -!jG runs at Adelaide. The Australians. had the first call on the wicket, 1 and scorcd 388. From the foregoing facts it will bo seen that the Australians' first innings scores have been considerably above yesterday's display in the majority of the Tests at Adelaide. ■ The Australian Selection Committee have dropped A. Cottor arid G. H. Ilazlitt. Hartigan, of Queensland, has done well this season with the bat, and. is a' good ' field.;. ,0 Connor is a recent'importation to Australia, but his trundling did not e.iuse, the Englishmen any anxiety in the.South Australian match, when the visitors scored CGO for eight wickets. The Queenslander has opened his Test cricket with the respectable total of 48. V. Trumper and C. Hill have not done themselves justice, perhaps owing to their heavy colds. A little, exercise to-day may have a beneficial effect, which should eniiblo .them I o trouble the English howlers early next week. Tho English bowlers have done remarkably well on such a perfect batsman's wicket, and a coiiple of overs will probably sec tho end of Australia's first innings. ;