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VICTORIA'S RECORD SCORE Pr«s» Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, December 29. (Received December 29, at 11 a.m.) Ryder’s innings was the finest exhibition of clean hitting ever seen on the ground. Off successive balls from Andrews he hit four 6’s. The score, which is his highest, included six 6’s and thirty-three 4’s. He batted for 245 minutes. The previous world’s record in firstclass cricket was obtained by Victoria against Tasmania in 1922-23, when Victoria scored 1,059. Victoria’s first innings occupied' 633 minutes. _At one stage, when Ryder and Liddicut were batting, 50 were scored in sixteen minutes and 100 in thirty-eight minutes. Mailey was the only bowler to trouble tb© Victorians, the others being unmercifully pasted. SOUTH AUSTRALIA BEATS QUEENSLAND Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ADELAIDE, December 29. (Received December 29, at 11 a.m.) Queensland in their second innings made 379 (Gough 73, Gill 36). A. Richardson took two wickets for 46 and Grimmett five for 109. South Australia in its second innings lost no wickets for 54 (V. Richardson 28, Schneider < 22), South Australia won by ten wickets. Although Queensland batted pluckily, the task wap hopeless from the outset, and the local side easily compiled the necessary runs for a ten-wicket win.
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Evening Star, Issue 19443, 29 December 1926, Page 7
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201SHEFFIELD SHIELD Evening Star, Issue 19443, 29 December 1926, Page 7
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