NEW ZEALAND CRICKET TEAM

Evening Star, Issue 15394, 19 January 1914, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND CRICKET TEAM

SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S GOOD SCORE. The weather was glorious and the wicket perfect for tho continuation of tho match between Now Zealand and South Australia on Saturday. The attendance at Adelaide Oval numbered 3,000. The bowling lacked sting, Bennett and Sandman being the most troublesome. The fielding was sure, but generally the men were,slow in getting to the ball. Sandman, Reese, and Tuckwell -were the smartest. Boxshall was excellent at the wickets. Robinson and Sandmati went on to bowl. The latter was expensive, and gave way to Bennett. Smith was smaruy taken low down at point. Two for 113. Steele batted freely. Sandman replaced Bennett and hia first ball beat Mayne. Three for 130. Willi two rune added, Steele was caught from a elder at square leg. He batted for 90 minutes, and hit one sixer and seven fours. Gooden played a straight slow with his pad, and was out leg before. Five for 158. At the luncheon interval the score was 175, Pellew having made 15 and Willsmore 11. Robinson and Sandman resumed the attack. Despite frequent changes the scoring was rapid. The sixth wicket added 118 runs in 50 minutes. Sandman was tried again. In tho first over Willsmore patted the ball to mid-off. Ho played a hard driving innings. Six for 296. Hill was quickly buey, but Pellew was steadier. The latter was easily caught at point. Ho batted for 95 minutes. Ho hit one sixer and nine fours. Seven for 312. With Crawford and Hill in, tho tea adjournment was taken, the score being 357 (Hill 48, Crawford 17). The New Zealand score was passed fn 225 minutes. Hill scored 50 in 78 minutes. The 400 was scored in four hours. Somerville, in tho second over, missed an easy return from Crawford, who had then scored 55. Hill was caught at mid-on. Eight fur 429. He had batted forcibly for 106 minutes, and took risks. The strokes of the ex-Australian, captain lacked some of his old certainty. Campbell was easily caught at square-leg. The first ball, a bailer, beat Howard. The innings lasted 265 minutes. In New Zealand's second innings Somerville was caught at third man, and Hemus was caught in tho slijis, two wickets bein.g down for 28 at the close of the day's piay. The following are tho scores :

South Australia. —First Innings. Steele c Taylor b Reese 73 Smith c Sandman b Bennett 37 Rundell lbw b Bennett 12 Mayne b Sandman 3 Pellew c Sandman 1> Bennett 94 Gooden lbw b Sandman 9 Willsmore o Reese b Sandman 57 Hill o Reese "b Robinson 92 Crawford not out 48 Campbell c Snedden b Robinson. ... 0 Howard b Robinson 0 Extras .„ _. -. - 8 Total w. 433 Bowling Analysis.—Robinsun, three wickets for 72 runs; Bennett, three for 101; Sandman, three for 125; Reese, one for 57 ; Hemus, none for 15; Snedden, none for 35; Hickmott, none for 14; Somerville, none for 8. New Zealand. —Second Innings. Hemus c Crawford b Willsmore ... 6 Somerville 19 Tuckwell not out ... .„ 2 Extra ... .... ... ... 1 Total for two wickets ... 28 "OCCASION A BIT TOO MITCH FOR THEM." Mr Arthur Sims, an old Canterbury and New Zealand representative, who has ju&t returned from Australia, told a Christchurch, reporter that there is little doubt the poor form cf tho New Zealand team in Sydney and Melbourne was duo to the fact that'the men were unable to accustom themselves to;..the pace of. the wicket. " The occasion yiiQ& a bit too much for them both in Sydney and Victoria," he said. " They were a young team, and they wore overawed by the crowd and the reputation of the men they were meetinsr. What thy said about Sandman after the Sydney match was that he, at any rate, was not afraid of the bowling. .Incidentally they thought that Sandman bowled well, and was the best bowler on the day."