CRICKET IN ENGLAND

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 151, 30 June 1928, Page 11

CRICKET IN ENGLAND

SEVERAL GAMES ABANDONED (Received 30th June, 2 p.m.) • . - ; „'■'.. „•■.,- LONDON, 29th June. Rain fell throughout the country on tho'second andthird days of the cricket ■matches'. Following are the results:— Middlesex,' first innings, 257 (Hendren 56), White taking six wickets for 77, and in the second innings 202 (Hendren 53); White taking six for 73. Somerset first innings, 182 (M. Lyon 66), Bettington taking six for 76, and in the second jririings; 89 r Durston taking six for 26. Middlesex won by 188 runs. • "Oxford University, first innings, 273 (Barber 57, Skene 105), and in the second innings the students lost five wieKets f0r.331 (Crawley 162,' Garland Wolls not out 55). Surrey declared in the'first, innings with six wickets down for 617 (Sandhani 108, Gregory 107, Shepherd 142, Jeaeock not out 62, Peach not out 55). The match^was drawn. .Essex, first innings, 123 (Nicholls 61), 'Maedonald. taking seven wickets for 39, and in the second 174 (O'Connor C 2), Macdonald taking four for 74. Lancashire, first innings, 296 (E. Tyldosloy 55, Makepiece 62, Iddon 98), and in the-second-innings no wickets for.4 runs. Lancashire won by ten wickets. Kent, first, innings, 292 (Hardinge • 114, Ashdown 80), Kennedy taking four for 61, and iiitho second 277 (Evans ; ,78,' Ames 51), Newman taking six for 86. Hampshire, first innings 164, Freeirian taking five for 61, and in the seettnd innings -277 (Livsoy not out 109), iPreoman taking seven for' 13S. Kent won by 128 runs. .Yorkshire, in the first innings, lost two wickets'for 387 (Sutcliffe not out £47, Leyland not out 189) in the match hgainst' Glamorgan, which was abandoned and does not count for the championship., ; ' « ■ ' ' Derbyshire lost nine wickets for 494 5n the first innings (Worthington 83, Stdrer 167, Townsend 98) against Gloucestershire. The match was abandoned., ■'•"• Sussex, first innings, .191 (A. Gilligan 64), Smith taking four for 49, and in the second '■ innings lost two wickets for 78. Leicestershire declared in the ' first innings' when eight wickets wero - down for 374 (Berry 51, Bradshaw not out 121). Thomatch was abandoned. Worcestershire, first innings ID2 (Fox 54), Barratt taking four for 50, and in the second lost two wickets for 9G. Nottinghamshi.'o declared in tho first innings with ;iine wickets down for 233 (Carr 63, Lilley 73). Notts won on tho first innings. ' . . • ■ "Northamptonshire, first innings 100, Constantino taking seven for 45, and in the.second 208 .(-Tiinms .50), Constantino taking six for 07.. .'West Indies declnrcrl .- in- the' first innings with nine wickets gone'- for 434' (Constantino 107, Cliarlonor 97, Griffith not out Gl), Clark taking six for 52. AVest Indies Avon by an innings and 120 runs;