NORTHANTS BEATEN

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1926, Page 9

NORTHANTS BEATEN

AUSTRALIANS WIN WITH INN-\

INGS IN HAND

GBIMMETT'S FINE AVEBAGE.

(Router's Telegram.) (Received 3rd July, 11 a.m.)

LONDON, 2nd July.

Twenty-five minutes sufficed to finish the *match between the Au- alians and Northamptonshire to-day. The weather was bright and the wicket good, Australia winning by an, innings and 147 runs.

Murdin and Fitzroy resumed for Northants, and got- -n several big hits, including a six to leg by the former

off Grimmett and a boundary off the same bowler and one off Mailey. Fitzroy scored two fours off Mailey before he was hopelessly beaten. The following is the detailed score:— AUSTRALIA. First innings '. 397 NORTHAMPSHIRE. First innings 125 . - Second lanings. " Woolley, c Woodfull, b Mailey .. 15 Bagnall, c and b Mailey 17 Hawkin, c Woodfull, b Grimmett 34 W. Timms, o and b Grimmett .. 12 Walden, c Ponsford, b Grimmett 5 J. Timms, lbw, b Grimmett Q Bellamy, c Gregory, b Mailey ... 3 Fitzroy, b Mailey 16 Murdin,.lbw, b Grimmett ■ 14 Nicholson, at. Ellis, b Mailey 2 Clark, not out . ■. 0 Extras 7 Total 125 Bowling Analysis.—Gregory took no wickets for 13 runs; Andrews, none for 2i); Mailey, iivo for 58; Grimmc'.t, five for 18. _ „.....,. ..^'. .•*.*.... ■ 1