ENGLISH CRICKET

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 142, 19 June 1922, Page 4

ENGLISH CRICKET

AN EXTRAORDINARY GAME. •

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(AUSTRALIAN - NBW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 17th. June.

Hampshire beat Warwickshire by 155 runs at Birmingham in one of the most sensational games in cricket history. Tennyson won the toss and put Warwickshire in. They scored 223, Hampshire following on after a, disastrous innings, in which they scored 15. They lost six wickets for 177 runs and eight for 274. Then Livsey joined Brown, and in a partnership of 140 minutes added 177 for the ninth wicket, Brown making 172. The innings totalled 521 (Livsey not out 110). Wanting 314 to win, Warwickshire failed against the bowling of Newman and Kennedy, and were, all out for 158. Kent, 139 and 67 for one wicket, beat Gloucester, 126 and 79.

Somerset, 162 and 394, beat Leicester, 81 and 201.

Yorkshire, 339 foi seven wickets (declared), beat Middlesex, 138 and 180. Derbyshire, 294 and 274 for nine wickets (declared) beat Glamorgan, 152 and 134. .

Essex, 203 and 175 for five pickets (declared), beat Sussex, 120 and *131. Notts, 204 and 75 for one wicket, beat Northants, 121 and 157. The position in the county championship is now as follows: —Surrey, 82 points; Yorkshire, 80; Notts, 70; Kent, 68; Middlesex, 66; Hampshire, 60; Sussex, 54; Essexi, 46. , (Received June 19, Ba.m;) 1 LONDON, 17th June. Batting averages are:—Hardinge 96, Russell 82, Hendren 77, Hobbs 74, Woolley 64, Oldroyd 63, Seymour 63, Mead 62, Hearne 59, Makepeace 58. Bowling averages are:—Rhodes, 47 wickets, 9.97 runs; Brown, 29 wickets, 10.93 runs; Macauley, 58 wickets, 12.29 runs; Richmond, 82 wickets, 12.35 runs; Giinn, 29 wickets, 13.75 runs; Cox, 32 wickets, 13.81 tuns; Allen, 37 wickets, 13.89 runs; Kennedy, 81 wickots, 14.24 runs; Parkin, 66 wickets, 14.92 runs; Parker, 79 wickets, 15.70 runs.