BY NEW ZEALANDERS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 22, 26 July 1927, Page 9

BY NEW ZEALANDERS

DEMPSTER IN FORM

BACKED UP BY ALLCOTT

(United Press Association.—Copyright.)

(Received 26th July, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 25th July,

The game between the New Zealand touring cricket team and the Warwickshire County eleven was continued today at Birmingham on the Edgbaston Ground, but before only a meagre attendance. When stumps were drawn on Saturday the New Zealanders had lost one wicket for 45, and the two not out men were Dempster and Allcott, who carried on famously to-day. The wicket was ideal and enabled the two

batsmen to give the finest second-wicket partnership seen anywhere this season. It was regrettable that the attendance was only small, compared with the 3000 who attended on Saturday. Dempster and Allcott completely mastered the Warwickshire attack, each man's century being the result of superb cricket. Allcott headed the race to the half-century mark, taking seventy minutes to do so. Dempster took twenty-five minutes longer, but after that he was much more aggressive, getting his century in 170 minutes, just forestalling hia partner. Dempster gave a difficult chance at the wicket when he had scored^ 102, but otherwise the pair both played chanceless innings. The keenest critics are all of the opinion that this New Zealand pair gave the best exhibition of batting seen so far during the present season. The partnership was responsible for 303 runs, and they were together for three hours and a half, Dempster being at the crease for four hours, dnring which he hit nineteen 4's, five of them consecutively in one of Quaife's overs. Allcott 's innings was just as chanceless as Dempster's, during which he hit thirteen 4's.

M'Girr aria Page also laid on the wood merrily, and altogether the day provided the most exhilarating and enterprising cricket seen for many a day in Birmingham, and was a real tonic compared with the average county games.

The following are the detailed scores NEW ZEALAND.

First Innings. Blunt, Ibw, b Wyatt 11 Dempster, Ibw, b Parsons ,'.'. 180 AUcott, run out 131 Dacre, c Smart, b Croom " 29 Lowry, c Smith, b Smart " 9 M'Girr, 0 Roll, b Wyatt 43 Page, not out ''. 45 Memtt, not out •.•...■<...; 23 Extras *...!" 21 Total for six wickets 492 Innings declared closed. Bowling Analysis.—Wyatt took two wickets for 110 runs, Croom one for 2b", Smart one for 49, Parsons one for 22* Calthorpe none for 73, Quaife none for 01, Santall none for 40, Roll none for 40, and Smith none for 20. WARWICKSHIRE. First Innings 235 Second Innings. Smith, Ibw, b M' Girr .. 4 Wyatt, c ana b Blunt ....'.'.'. Q N. Kilner, not out 29 Quaife, not out ')" g Extras '.'.'." 2 Total for two wickets 43