SPLENDID START

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 103, 28 October 1932, Page 7

SPLENDID START

EARLY RECORD-BREAKING

(By "Not Out.") Added.interest is given, to the second match of the M.C.C. team's AustralianNew Zealand tour by the fact that D. G. Bradmaa is included in the combined -team, and it is also a matter of particular interest that Bradman, ■when in Melbourne on the way to Perth, was entertained at lunch, by Dr. A. Robertson, the chairman of the Board ofvControl. Accompanying Bradman were J. Fingleton and S. J. MeCabe, and they, too, were similarly honoured ' by the board chairman in Melbourne. These three players make up the New South Wales quota in the team, meeting the M.C.O. to-day. From South. Australia there are A. E. Lonergan and V. T. Richardson. It had been reported that Richardson Vas to captain, the combined team. The remaining players are from West Australia. In the ordinary 'course of events there would have been only one match in Perth at the outset of the tour, but with the decision to extend the tour to include matches in New Zealand the itinerary was amended to provide for West Australia having the • second instead of the last match of the tour. The latest match between M.C.C. and West_ Australia has provided another addition to cricket records, the Nawab of Pataudi's 166 being the highest individual score made for M.C.C. in the opening match at Perth. On previous tours other players have started with a century at Perth, and the Nawab of Pataudi has emulated the performances of P. I^Fane (in 1907), H. Makepeace (in 1920), E. Kilner (in 1924), and D. Bi. Jardine (in 1928). Pataudi has gone one better in scoring another century in the second match of ■ the tour. This represents another record, no other M.C.C. representative having scored two successive centuries in matches at Perth. Pataudi has made a remarkable beginning, and his achievements at Perth will lead to an even keener anticipation of his appearances in the other States and in New Zealand than was the case before he stepped on to Australian soil. Sutcliffe yesterday deprived Pataudi of a quickly won honour by exceeding the Indian's record score'in.the opening, match by three runs. No indication is given in the cabled report of the runs scored by Pataudi and Sutcliffe for the second wicket, but the indications are that the partnership, was j a record one for the second wicket so far as M.C.C. matches in Perth are eon-! eerned. , j The performance'of the M.C.C. team yesterday reads well as an indication of what is to be expected from them, but it is not to be accepted as a real guide. For one thing, the visitors will be up against much stronger bowling in coming matches than that which is being met in the present match. Still, there is no doubt that the tourists have made a very promising beginning, and the figures make the performance appear much better than is indicated iv the cabled report of the match.