OTAGO'S SECOND INNINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 154, 27 December 1935, Page 9

OTAGO'S SECOND INNINGS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) ■ AUCKLAND, Th:s Day. I Requiring 439 runs to beat Auckland, Otago's score soon after noon was 93 for four wickets. . ■ . , Scandrett brought a hundred up by driving Townsend hard to the boundary, but he had a short career, Vivian bowling him in his next over. 103-5-7. Further trouble followed, Cayanagh being snapped up by the wicket-keep-er, Hayward, off Vivian, a few minutes later, . after adding two. Elmes was 22 when Smith joined him. He took his tally to 32 before Townsend got his middle stump with an ■ offbreak.. 116-7-32.' Townsend had Toomey tied up before the luncheon adjournment, when the score was 124 for seven wickets. ■ DEFENSIVE PLAY. : A period of defensive play marked the resumption. Saxton and Kerr found three men on the leg side clustered around them to the bowling of Cowie, and two to Matheson's attack. The batsmen occasionally found a gap for a single or a brace, but after a halfhour's play.Mathesdn's leg-trap claimed a victim in Kerr, who cocked a simple catch to Cowie at forward shortleg. ' Elmes joined Saxton, who, after a hundred minutes' batting, had contributed 24 of a tptal of 65. After Matheson had' bowled for an hour, Vivian took the ball from him and appealed unsuccessfully for leg-before against Kerr. The next; ball was pulled to the boundary. An appeal for legbefore against Saxton was allowed under the new rule. Saxton made 33. Kerr had bowled two hours. Only nine more'runs had been added when Uttley returned one to Townsend, which the bowler held.