COUNTY MATCHES

Evening Star, Issue 20253, 14 August 1929, Page 5

COUNTY MATCHES

LONDON, August 13. (Received August 14, at 11.30 a.m.) Middlesex: First innings, 514 for five wickets, declared (Lee 225, Allen 155). Second innings, 53 for two wickets. Surrey; First innings, 171 (Peebles gix for 23). Surrey followed on, and scored 394 (Hobbs 97; Haig four for 71). Middlesex won by eight wickets. Northants: First innings, 122 (Parker seven for 68). Second innings, 118 (Goddard four for 35). Gloucester: First innings, 156 (Thomas four for 43, Jupp four for 73). Second innings, 88 for three wickets. Gloucester won by seven wickets. Sussex: First innings, 428 (Duleepsinhji 115, Langridge 80, Holdsworth 69 not out; Freeman six for 131). Second innings, 381 for eight wickets, declared (Duleepsinhii 246). Kent: First innings, 398 (Ashdown 63, Knott 140, Wright 69; Tate six for 136), Second innings, 244 (Ames 118; Tate seven for 58). Sussex won by 167 runs. Yorkshire: First innings, 369, (Sutcliffe 95, Leyland 69, Mitchell 69). Hampshire; First innings, 189 (Mead 61; Robinson four for 47). Hampshire followed on, and scored 162 (Robinson six for 62). Yorkshire won by an innings and 18 runs. Warwick: First innings, 13S (Holroyd five for 47). Second innings, 178 (Macdonald five for 80). Lancashire: First innings, 369 for nine wickets, declared (Hallows 102, Makepeace 163 not out). Lancashire won by an innings and 53 runs., Derby; First innings, 457 for eight wickets, declared (Storer 176, Lee /6, Hill-Wood 72). Second innings, 50 for two wickets. Nottingham. First innings, 353 (Gunn 74, Walker 61; Lees five for 111). Derby won on the first innings. Somerset; First innings, 126 (Mercer four for 54, Ryan five for 19). Second innings, 229 (Macßryan 74; Mercer four for 71, Ryan four for 65). Glamorgan ; First innings, 109 (Wellard five for 31). Second innings, 250 for six wickets (Bell 83). Glamorgan won by four wickets. , Worcester: First innings, 107. Second innings, 294. Leicester: First innings, 551 for seven wickets, declared. Leicester won by an innings and 150 runs. DULEEPSINHJI’S GREAT BATTING.

Duleepsinhjrs double century recalls his kinsman, Ranji., at his best. His 246 occupied three and a-quarter hours, and included five 6’s and thirty-one 4’s. His wonderful hitting continued to the end, being mainly drives.