TEST CRICKET IN HOWLING GALE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 71, 17 December 1935, Page 9

TEST CRICKET IN HOWLING GALE

Australia v. South Africa BROWN AND McCABE MAKING RUNS By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received December 17, 12.40 a.m.) Durban, December 16. Play in the Test cricket match between Australia and South Africa was resumed in a howling south-west gale, with ominous clouds overhead. The batting order revealed that Grimmett would be last man owing to an injured left hand. The wind was so violent that on one occasion Fingleton was unable to stand at the crease, and play was held up owing to the light fading through black clouds passing overhead. There were frequent interruptions as players’ caps and bails were blown off, while dust and pieces of paper hindered the batsmen and fieldsmen. Crisp, making full use of the wind, made the ball swing dangerously, eventually induoing Fingleton to snick one which Nicholson, the wicketkeeper, making his debut in international cricket, held. McCabe was not quite certain against Crisp, and played cautiously. Robertson was bowling round the wicket and flighting the ball most deceptively. Brown, when 17, gave Nicholson a catch which was not accepted. Then McCabe twice dangerously pushed up Langton to short leg just out of Rowan’s reach. The wind was now stronger than . ever, but the sun appeared and McCabe began to hit hard. The lunch score was as follows: — AUSTRALIA.—First Innings. Fingleton, c. Nicholson, b. Crisp .. 2 Brown, not out 23 McCabe, not out 30 Extras 5 Total for one wicket .......... CO SOUTH AFRICA. First Innings 248 ONE WICKET FOR 100 At 1 a.m. (New Zealand time) Australia had scored 100 for one wicket (Brown not out 37, McCabe not out 55). AUSTRALIAN BOWLING Good as Seen in Test for Years Durban, December 15. H. G. Deane, a former South African captain, writing in the “Sunday Tribune,” says: “The Australian bowling was as good as I have seen in any Test for many years, but the South Africans fell into the mistake of allowing it wholly and solely to dom’inate the game.” Louis Duffus, writing in the “Cape Argus,” says: “South Africa’s eleven includes too many batsmen of the opening type against an attack in which the opening bowlers are the least effective members. Australia’s spin bowlers, with Fleetwood-Smith making _ a striking Test debut, won the first tilt at South Africa’s cavalcade of batsmen, but the prospects of a keenlyfought rubber are not as remote as the first day’s score suggests.”