AN EXCITING FINISH.
(AUSTRALIAN-NBW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 20th June.
Esses in the second innings added 49 in sixty-seven minutes, Douglas making 40. The South Africans had a difficult task on a wearing wicket, which troubled the batsmen. No tea adjournment was taken. Douglas bowled on the leg theory to keep the runs down, l>ut P. A. M. Hands played an aggressive innings- for 64. The finish was exciting. When. J. J. Bissett, the last man,' went in 31 runs were required. Bissett made ■24 in eight hits in eight minutes, including a sixer, and made 12 off the last three balls, just beating the clock.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1924, Page 7
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106AN EXCITING FINISH. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1924, Page 7
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