WITH BAT AND BALL

Evening Post, Issue 2, 2 July 1932, Page 11

WITH BAT AND BALL

GREAT PERFORMANCES

ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET

FEEEMAFS FEAT

United Press Association—By Electric Tele-

graph—Copyright. (Received 2nd July/ 1 p.m.)

LONDON, Ist July

Knmcrous outstanding performances were recorded in the latest series of county cricket matches, among them being a notable bowling feat by Freeman, who took seventeen wickets for Kent against Warwickshire. Hazell (Somerset) and Larwood (Notts) were also in splendid form, with the ball. The Nawab of Pataudi (M\C.C.) and HazelllSS (Cambridge University), playing in the same match, each, registered a fine batting double, and Iddon (Lancashire) scored a double century. In the match between Gloucestershire and Notts each side made the same score in the first innings. : . . The following are the results:— M.C.C. 300 (the Nawab of Pataudi 112) and 230 for eight wickets, declared (the. Nawab of Pataudi 70); Cambridge University 232 (Hazelrigg 84) and 182 for seven.wickets (Hazelrigg 104 not out). Match drawn. Somerset 455 (F. Leo 140, J. Lee 109); Esses 256 (Pope 115; Hazell.took seven wickets for 87 runs) and 125 (Hazell five for 35). .Somerset won by an ijinings and 74 runs.

Northamptonshire 89" (Verity' eight for 39). and 113 (Macaulay seven for 66); Yorkshire 251 for sis wickets, declared (Holmes.B4). Yorkshire "won by an innings and 49 runs. . ".' Derbyshire 180 (Feuder five for"71) and 166 (Brown six for 45); Surrey 88 (Townsend four for 29) and 23 for two wickets. Derbyshire won on the first innings.

Lancashire 413 (Iddon 201, Butterworth 107);- Sussex 322 for.five wickets (Duleepsinhji 111).-Match drawn.

. Gloucestershire 262 (Hammond 119; Larwood six for 79) and 94 (Larwood five for 88; Voce four for 40). Nottinghamshire 262 and 95 for four wickets. Nottinghamshire won by six wickets. ■

Kent 174 (Woolley 92; Mayer' five for 25) and 169 (Foster six lor 82); Warwickshire 129 (Freeman eight for 31) and' 140 (Freeman, nine for 61). Kent won by 74 runs.

Middlesex 203 and 133; Leicestershire 248 and 70 for seven, wickets. Leicestershire won by three wickets.^ (There is evidently an inaccuracy in the cabled figures).

Levcson-Gower's Eleven 195 and 147; Oxford "University 317 (Brooke 113) and 29. for no wickets. Oxford University won by ten wickets.

There hare been quite a number of instances of a bowler capturing seventeen wickets in a first-class match, but A. P. Freeman has now performed the feat on two occasions and in that respect he takes rank with W. Mead, the former Essex player. lii four consecutive innings Freeman has taken thirtywickets at a average of 7.86—-five for 88, eight for 56, eight for 31, and nine for 61. The previous occasion on which Freeman took seventeen wickets in. a match was against Susses in 1922 at the small cost of 67 runs.

MAILEY IN CANADA

AUSTRALIANS AT TORONTO

TORONTO, 30th June. . A. A. Mailey's team of Australian cricketers'defeated a selected Toronto team to-day, by 191 runs to 94. A feature of the match, was the free hitting of Eichardson and Tolhurst. The Canadians batted sixteen men. The Australian scores follow:— Richardson, c Carter, b Wilson..*' 46 Nutt,.c Wilson, b Gr0ve5'........ '20 Bradnian, b Groves .............. 11 Kippax, lbw, b Wilson. ...„„.„.. 10 Ive«, c Carter, b Wilson » 1 Rofe, lbw, b .Wilson ........;... 8 Mailey, c Bell, b McLean ........ 1 Tolhurst, c Logic, b McLean. •.•;.. 56 Carter, ;b Tate .". -. 17 Fleetwood-Smith, st Hoyle, b Tate' 1 Carney, not out 13 '. ' Extras ..................... 7 Total 191 McCabe did not bat. Bowling: For Toronto, Wilson, took four wickets for 53 runs; for Australia, Mailey seven for 36, Fleetwood-Smith seven for 40. :■• ; Following the completion of the Australian innings the local team batted out time, scoring 122" runs for five wickets. . . ...