CRICKET

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 10

CRICKET

ENGLISHMEN MEET SOUTH CANTERBURY TOURISTS OPEN WELL By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, December 27. The Marylebone Cricket Club team opened the fourth match of the New land tour against South Canterbury this afternoon. Winning the toss, the visitors elected to bat, and at stumps had lost nine wickets for 253 runs. The weather- prior to the commencement of the game was threatening, but the rain held off. Conditions changed twice during the afternoon. First the sun came out warmly and then a south-east-erly sprang up, making conditions cold and unpleasant. Duleepsinhji, Gilligan, and Bowley stood down, Earle leading the team to the wicket, which, not previously played on, gave slight assistance to the bowlers. A crowd which, estimated at twelve hundred, gave the visitors a fine reception, but there was keen disappointment at the non-appearance of the popular Indian player. Taken all round, the display of the visitors was not a brilliant one, although Nichols and Legge treated the spectators to some beautiful shots, particularly to the off. Dawson Caught. The visitors’ opening batsmen, Dawson and Cornford, received an ovation. D. J. Mcßeath, the ex-New Zealand representative, opened the attack. Dawson had a life off the first ball of McBeath’s second over, Hamilton dropping an easy catch in the slips. Mcßeath was swinging dangerously in the wind and kept the batsmen quiet. Then came a sensation,' Dawson inst touching the first ball of Kane’s second over and Hamilton accepting a catch almost on the ground. Woolley received an ovation and soon settled down, scoring nicely from both sides of the wicket, Mcßeath and Kane both keeping accurate length. Scoring was slow, 15 being hoisted after 20 minutes’ play. In the fourth over Kane got Dawson caught behind the stumps, 17— 2—2. Turnbull and Woolley took the total to thirty-two when the latter returned an easy catch to Kane. Woolley batted, thirty minutes and hit one six and two fours. Nichols filled the gap, but for a period was scratchy, being unable to make much headway against Mcßeath, who was breaking' in sharply from the off. Turnbull made eighteen in thirty-six minutes. He was then dismissed by a splendid catch by Gregory at square leg. 48 ' 4 18. The Bowling Mastered. The Legge-Nichols partnership altered the complexion of the innings, the pair completely mastering the bowling. Legge was more aggressive than his partner, and treated the spectators to some brilliant shots, chiefly through the covers and slips. The pair were unseparated at the tea interval, but soon after resuming Legge was beaten by a splendid length ball from Kane. Legge was at the wickets for fifty-three minutes, scoring five boundaries. The partnership added seventy-four. Worthington had a short life 1 , mishitting a rising ball to get caught in the slips. Earle, who captained the visitors, opened well, driving Herdman hard to the fence, but the next ball beat him all the way. Barratt gave the crowd a taste of what can" be done by attacking the bowling, and he hit up 39 in a short time. Eventually he was clean bowled by Mcßeath. He hit one six and five fours. Benson joined Nichols, who now reached seventy. The second century wah hoisted after 172 minutes’ play. The wind at this stage was very keen. All the bowlers were swinging the foot more, and Nichols fell a victim to Gregory in trying to pull a straight ball. He batted 148 minutes, and hit nine fours. Allom and Benson played out the time.. Scores:— ENGLAND. —First innings. E. W. Dawson, c. Brown, b. Kane 2 W. Cornford, c. Hamilton, b. Kane 1 F. E. Woolley, c. and b. Kane .... 23 M J. Turnbull, e. Gregory, b. Herdman 18 M. S. Nichols, b. Gregory 75 G. B. Legge, b. Kane 43 S. Worthington, c. Hamilton, b. Kane 6 F. G. Earle, b. Herdman 4 F. Barratt, b. Mcßeath .......... 39 M. J. Cf Allom, not out 7 E. T. Benson, not out 26 Extras 9 Total for nine wickets .... 253 BRABIN SHIELD MATCH WELLINGTON DEFEAT AUCKLAND NORTHERN TEAM AVERT INNINGS DEFEAT. A northerly wind and misty drizzle during a good part- of the morning and afternoon made conditions far from ideal for the continuation of the junior representative match between Wellington and Auckland on Kelburn Park yesterday for the Brabin Shield. At the drawing of stumps on Thursday, Wellington had 342 for nine wickets; and this morning they decided to declare' and try for an innings victory, requiring to dismiss the visitors for under 244 to do so. In their second innings, however, on a pitch that was only surface wet, the Auckland team proved a much harder nut to crack. When rain stopped play at 1 p.m. there were 82 runs on for four wickets, with Angus and Newdick in. The latter fell to Donald shortly after resuming, and Gillies came in to compile a nice 24 before he too fell to the same bowler. Angus fell to Simpson when 37. Cowie, who came next, got well set, and wrought havoc with the Wellington deliveries, being ably supported by his partner, Macindoe. At 203 Cowie lifted Simpson to Wareham, with his total at 72, a score which included thirteen fourers and a sixer. With 219 on the board, Cleverley was out I.b.w. (Simpson’s seventh wicket), and Wilkinson went in, with 25 to get to avert an innings defeat. The last pair batted magnificently, scoring freely in all directions, and when Macindoe succumbed to Simpson, the score stood at 328. after a fine last wicket stand which netted 109 runs, and made it necessary for Wellington to take the field again and get 85 runs to secure an outright win. Warebam and Paetz opened for the home side, and playing very steadily, notched 79 runs before the former had the misfortune to run himself out. MeGavin was next, and he and Paetz passed the Auckland total without mishap. Details of scoring are as follow: — WELLINGTON. First innings 342 AUCKLAND. First innings 98 Second Innings. Stehr, c McGavin, b Simpson 4 Everson, c Stevens, b Simpson 17 Angus, b Simpson 37 Jameson, c Neal, b Simpson 0 Bryerlcy, c Hankins, b Simpson ... 18 Newdick, b Macdonald 5 Gillies, 1.b.w., b Macdonald 24 Cowie, c Wareham, b Simpson ... 72 Macindoe, 1.b.w., b Simpson 67 Cleverley. 1.b.w., b Simpson 6 Wilkinson, not out 52 Extras 26 Total 328 Bowling Analysis.—Simpson took eight wickets for 104 runs; Macdonald, two for 68. WELLINGTON. Second Innings. Wareham, run out 44 Paetz, not out 36 McGavin, not out 9 Extras 3 Total for one wicket 92