M.C.C.'S BIG SCORE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 15

M.C.C.'S BIG SCORE

FOECEFUL HITTING

HAMMOND MAKES 227

INNINGS DECLARED AT, 560

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CHBISTCHURCH, This Day. The weather was fine this morning for the continuation of tho Test match. With 420 runs for five wickets, the Englishmen- resumed with Hammond (225) and Brown (12). -Again there was a sensational start. After two overs Hammond went for a big hit at Badcock. He missed and was eleart-bowled after having added only two to his overnight score. His 227 was made in 305 minutes, one of the greatest innings seen at Lancaster Park. It was a perfect exhibition of complete stroke mastery, allied with great power.

•Last night the total was listed at 418 and- Hammond with 223, but the board altered the total first thing this morning. Vooe joined Brown, and the pair started to look for runs. Voee, hitting both bowlers to the boundary, ran into double figures in quick time. Cavanagh fielded in place of Vivian, who had strained a knee yesterday. Badcoek carried on, it is believed, against the doctor's orders, liis hand having been injured. Runs came at the rate of one per ininute. Brown and Voce drove forcefully. Voce had a life when ho went for a six off Badcock, Whitelaw dropping him within a few yards of the long-on boundary. At .450 Freeman came on.-His length was poof, and both batsmen placed him easily to leg. Voco was hitting hard, and Smith stopped one straight drive gallantly. The nest went to the fence. Almost every ball was scored off. Newman replaced Freeman, but was little more effective. ,

Sixty runs were added in'thirty-five Jniautes. Badeock then replaced Smith. In, the second over Yoco tipped ono perilously near the slips. The next ball Ke drove high to the off boundary, and 50"0 was hoisted after 351 minutes' play. The partnership had added 78 in thirty-five minutes, A late cut for a pair off Newman gave Brown his half-century. He showed pretty shots, and besides hard drives turned Badcoek beautifully to fine leg for four. Ho 'miss-hit Badcock at 54, and Cavariagh, jwell out on the off, missed an apparently simple catch. In the next over Brown sent Newman to the boundary with a great straight drive, cut him for a pair, and finished the over with three more fours with great drives. Eighteen had beem scored off the over. ,

.Voce squaro-cut Badeoek for a great if our,, and Page was given a clap when •he went on at the north end and put two men on the boundary. Brown fell into ;the- trap. Page's first ball was short. Brown pulled it hard and high and Weir took a fine catch on tho boundary-at, long on. Brown's was a great exhibition of hard hitting. 532— 7—74. Brown's runs had been made in 90 minutes.

Tate, who joined Voee,-opened with a single, and Voco then hit the first six of the match, a magnificent on-drivo oil Page, scattering the embankment crowd. Then Voce was caught by .Dempster off Page. England declared their innings at tight ■ wickets for 5601 '' - '

~ NEW .ZEALAND :AT .WICKETS. .New. Zealand -opened, their first: innJags at 12.52 p.m., Dempster and •iWhitelaw facing Tat& and Voce. ._ At lunen the score was no wickets for six "(Dempster 1, Whitelaw 5). Scores are as follows:— ENGLAND. First Innings,

If. Sutcliffe, c James, b Badcock 0 E. Paynter, b Smith "/ 0 W. It. Hammond, b Badcock . ' 0.07 u. E. S. Wyatt, run out ! ~20 D: E. Jardine, c James, b Badcock 45 I/. E. G. Ames, b Vivian 103 Brown,.c Weir, b Page ' 74 yoee, c Dempster, b Page .4 66 37ate, not.out ■ 10 Extras ,{........"!*.*|[[^ 15 Total for eight wickets ...... 560 BOWLING ANALYSIS. Ba&ock ..... 54 11 142 3 hmith ....... 20 0 113 1 Newman 25 — 6 ' 91 0 3Preeman ...... 20 2 78 0 Vivian ....... 3.S 1 70 ■, Weir ..„....: 7 0 28 0 Page ..., 2.2 0 21 2 The M.C.C.'s first innings was declarea closed at 560 for eight wiekets .(Brown-74, Voce 66, Tate lot out 10)!