OUR CRICKETERS

Evening Star, Issue 19617, 25 July 1927, Page 3

OUR CRICKETERS

LONDON, July 23. In the New Zealand' team against Warwickshire at Birmingham today M'Girr and Dacre displaced Mills and Oliver. Bain delayed the start till "The countv went in first, Smith and Kilner opening, and the former hit 38 out of 44 runs obtained before lunch, MT.irr’s dismissal of Kilner was brilliant, the fieldsman diving and holding the ball as ho fell at mid-off. M'Girr’s excellent bowling after tea, when the score was four for 183, caused the collapse of the rest of the county, the last six of whoso wickets realised only 53. runs. M'Girr sent down seven, maidens nut of eighteen overs. The New Zealanders opened • their innings brightly, scoring 45 runs in ferry minutes. Details; — WARWICKSHIRE. First Innings. Smith c Blunt b Lowry 41 Kilner c M'Girr b Dacre 65 Calthorpe b Blunt 1 Qixaifo c Dempster b Page ... ... 14 Parsons c Henderson b M'Girr ... 39 Wyatt c Pago b M'Girr ... 5 Santall c Dempster b M'Girr ... 3 Smart st James b Merritt 4 Fox c Dempster b M'Girr 9 801 l Ibw b Blunt 0 Croom not out ■r® Extras b Total 235

’Warwickshire Match •' ' - Home Team Scores 235 M'Girr in Fine Form Tress Association—By Telegnph—Copyright.

Bowling Analysis.—Merritt, one lor 53; Allcott, none for 12; Page, one for 25; Blunt, two for 63; Henderson, none for 23; Lowry one for 3; Cunningham, none for 16; M'Girr, four for 25; Dacre, one for 10. NEW ZEALAND. First Inning:;. Blunt Ibw b Wyatt ••• M Dempster not out -y Allcott not out 41 Extras " Total for one wicket ... 45 [Warwickshire last season played twenty-eight matches, winning two, losing nine, and drawing seventeen. The leading batsmen were Parsons (average 39.22), Wyatt 35.05), Kilner (34.27), Bates (34.20), Quaife (2-5.17) The best howlers were Patrjdge, Quaife, and Wyatt.]