A BATTING TEST

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1931, Page 9

A BATTING TEST

TO-DAY'S PROSPECTS

(By "Not Out.") As a result of yesterday's play in the New Zealand-Worcestershire match, a keen finish is likely to-day, and in this the tourists will most likely hay^c their batting put to a test under conditions favouring the bowlers.. Whether Lowry was tight or wrong iii giving the county first strike On. a wicket stated to be easy, the match' is serving the purpose of trying^out the bowlers under conditions somewhat different from those previously experienced, and of giving the batsmen.a real tents In the liprht of what happened yesterday, it is .difficult to imagine that tho wicket Was "easy." -~',. ■ As in the first > innings, Worcestershire'« batting its again largely a. oneman, etfort. The remaining three wickets should not present much difficulty ,'to>the New: Zealand 'bowlers. Thdre will then be the final bid for success, and the way will not bo easy for New Zealand's" batsmen if Eoot and Pcrku aro on tho job as they wore against Lancashire earlier in the week. Worcestershire routed tho champions, who mad© only 75 and 85. ; In Lancashire's first innings Perks took five wickets t6v 19 run«j and in the second innings Boot took nine for 2iT. Unless the tail wajgs effectively, Xew Zealand sUoulcl have about 200 nuis-to make in orßer, to win tho match with Worcestershire. It would not be A tall 6rdfli' tinder gooid conditions, but tho ■fourth strike on a wicket makes tho task harder. If forcing play is hot successftil, a repetition of tho fighting eiieket in the 'Auckland-Wellington match at the Basin Reserve last year will bo necessary.. ;