TO-DAY'S MATCH
(By "Not Oat.") The New Zealand cricket tourists are commencing their three-day match with. Glamorgan' at Cardiff to-day. Glamorgan started off very well this season with an outright win over Warwickshire in the county championship, but the result ■ whs reversed in. the rn.ateb.es with Nottinghamshire, Middlesex,1 and Lancashire. Against Warwickshire Mercttr took four wickets for 38 runs, and ci'.ght for 42. Glamorgan finished in eighth place on the championship ladder last season. M. J. Turnbiill, the captain, who was a member of the last M.C.C. team, to visit New Zealand, batted well for the comity, as did Davies, Bates, Hills, Dyson, aiiid Bell, while' Byan and Mercer were tbo principal bowiers, each taking over 10(1' wickets. J. C. Clay is a fine all-rounder in the side, but does not play regularly. On tha 1927 tour New Zealand easily beat Glamorgan. The scores were:— New Zealand, 345 (Dempster 167 not out, Blunt 89) and 205 for sis wickets (inuings declared closed); Glamorgan 145 and 199. Dempster achieved, the distinction- of carrying his- bat through an innings;, and his brilliant display delighted a large Bank Holiday crowd. In that match Bernau was New Zealand's moat successful bowler, and Mercer did bast for Glamorgan. Glamorgan,, after being dismissed for 99 runs in. the first innings, weTo taken cheaply hy the Australians last year, and tho county players sprung* something of a surprise. The Australians had made f145 in the first innings and declared witfk 71 for one wicket in thesecond innings, sotting Glamorgan the task of making 218 to win in two hours and three-tjuarters. The county's spirited bid 'for success resulted; in 197 runs being scored for the loss of seven wickets, Bates, and Turnbull doing most, of the hitting:. The county thus missed success by only 21 runs. A big improvement uptm. performances in the last three county championship matches will be necessary on Glamorgan'b part if tlie county is to extend the Now Zealand team.
TO-DAY'S MATCH
Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1931, Page 13
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