RAIN SAVES DAY

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 93, 14 January 1936, Page 11

RAIN SAVES DAY

Opening Cricket Test Drawn HOME SIDE 7 FOR 205 Vivian Plays Best Innings For New Zealand ENGLISHMEN’S TACTICS By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, January 13. Hain deprived the M.C.C. of a win against New Zealand, the first Test match ending in a draw. At stumps on Saturday, New Zealand, in their second innings, had lost live wickets for 11G runs, and play did not resume until 3.10 p.m.'to-day. A: 5.5 p.m. New Zealand had lost seven wickets for 181, and play was held up for 25 minutes on account of bad light. When it resumed the M.C.C. had an hour to dismiss the remaining batsmen and gain a win, but after one more over there was another successful appeal against the light, and stumps were drawn, New Zealand’s total being 205 for seven. In the last over J. H. Human deliberately bowled 24 extras for the purpose of getting the new ball, but his efforts were wasted, as A. D. Baxter had bowled only one ball when play was abandoned. Play to-day lasted less than two hours. The not out batsmen bu Saturday were H. G. Vivian, who had scored 53, and J. R. Lamason, 27. Lamason took his score to 31 when lie was caught by J. 11. Parks in the slips off 11. D. Head. Vivian played easily the best innings for New Zealand, and when play was abandoned was still at the wickets, having batted 175 minutes for 87, his score including eleven fours. The other not out batsman, W. E. Merritt,

scored four. Bowling for the M.C.C., Head, who took six wickets for 26 in the first innings, again proved troublesome to the New Zealanders, and took five wickets for 74. J. M. Sims, the Middlesex slow bowler, took one for 24. and Baxter one for 46. Bowling for New Ball. Both Vivian and Lamason batted fairly confidently to Bead and Parks when •play resumed, and carried the score to 127, when Lamason, who had been at the stumps 47 minutes for 31, poked a ball from Read into the slips and was caught by Parks. New Zealand had lost five for 127. A. W. Roberts, who failed to score in the first innings, was the newcomer, and the score at the afternoon tea adjournment was 141 (Vivian 65, Roberts 8/. Roberts could do nothing with either Read or Baxter, who replaced Parks, but when Sims came on he batted with a great deal more confidence. He was at the wickets 62 minutes and had scored 15 when he endeavoured to lift. Sims to the boundary and was caught by IV. Barber. Vivian, who was putting up a better showing than any other New Zealand batsman, had scored 80 when he was joined by C. J. Elmes, the total being 165. Elmes survived a few overs and was then caught by Human ut mid-off off Read after scoring three. At 181 an appeal against the light was upheld. Play resumed 25 minutes later when the light had improved. To gain a win it. was necessary for the M.C.C. to dismiss the remaining batsmen in an hour, and Human, who was deputising as cap-v tain for Holmes, who was unable tos" take the field because of a bruised hand,, took over the bowling from Read, apparently for the purpose of piling up extras to bring the score to 200 and so procure’a new ball. The first two balls ef the over were stoppeel by the wicketkeeper and the next six, two of which were wides, went to the boundary, making 24 extras for the over. Baxter had bowled one ball when another successful appeal against the light" was made and stumps were drawn with seven wickets down for 205 (Vivian 87, Merritt 4). •M.C.C. First limings, total fqr five (dee.) .. (>53 NEW ZEALAND. First innings SI Second Innings. I. H. Cromb. b. Baxter 7 •T. E. Mills, b. Read II G. L. Weir. c. Barber, b. Read - D. A. R. Maloney, b. Read 25 H. G. Vivian, not out S 7 •I. It. Lamason, e. Parks, b. Read .... 31 A. W. Roberts, c. Barber, .... 15 C. J. Elmes. c. Human, b. Read ..... W. E. Merritt, not out 4 Extras 31 Total for seven wickets 205 Bowling Analysis.

SECOND TEST Changes in New Zealand Team FOUR WELLINGTONIANS (.By Telegraph—Press Association.) Dunedin, January 13. The team to represent New Zealand against the M.O.C. in the second Test to be played at Wellington, commencing on Friday, has been selected as follows: H. G. VIVIAN (Auckland). G. L. WEIR (Auckland). M. W. WALLACE (Auckland). I. B. CROMB (Canterbury). J. L. KERR (Canterbury). A. W. ROBERTS (Canterbury). J. A. R. BLANDFORL (Wellington). J. R. LAMASON (Wellington). D. A. R. MOLONEY (Wellington). E. D. BLUNDELL (Wellington). C. J. ELMES (Otago). The twelfth man is to be selected nt Wellington. No announcement has been made as to who will captain the side. The New Zealand team will stay at the Grand Hotel. The English team arrives in Wellington to-morrow and will stay at lhe Hotel St. George. The New Zealand Cricket Council has insured the gate takings against rain on Friday and Saturday. There will be practice wickets available for clubs on the Basin Reserve this afternoon only this week, because the New Zealand and English teams will require the wickets on Wednesday and Thursday. PLUNKET SHIELD GAME Otago Players For Practice By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, January 13. The following players have been chosen to practise in view of Otago’s

Plunket Shield match with Wellington, to be played at Dunedin on January 2-1, 25. 27, and 28 V. G. Cavanagh, G. R. Dickinson, .1 A. Dunning, L. Smith, F. Kerr, K. Uttley, C. Saxton, G. Mills, A. Knight, R. O. Talbot, R. Silver, F. Toomey, C. Elmes, F. T. Badcock. RAIN PREVENTS PLAY Manawatu Retains Hawke Cup Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, January 13. Rain to-day made it impossible to conclude the Manawatu-Southland Hawke Cup challenge match. Manawatu consequently win by 97 runs on the first innings, under the special rule that provides for a first innings win where the match is not completed. Manawatu made 230 in their first innings, to which Southland replied with 133. while at stumps on Saturd.'i.y_Man,a-w.-ifu had lost eight wickets tor 33,i. Southland are particularly unfortunate that rain fell during their visit here again this year, as their last year s match was also interrupted by the weather.

n. d. itmii ... A. P. Baxter o. 17.1 M. 1 It. 74 46 W. ’1 J. H. Parks , .1 8 0 30 0 J. M. Sims ... 12 ■ > 24 1 J. H. Human 1 0 0 0