UNHELPFUL WICKET

Evening Star, Issue 22682, 23 June 1937, Page 9

UNHELPFUL WICKET

NOUS BUILDS BIS SCORE NEW ZEALAND HELD ID DRAW TINDALL'S FINE KEEPING (From the special correspondent of the United Press Association with, the New Zealand cricket team.) NOTTINGHAM, June 22. (Received June 23, at 9.40 a.m.) Notts took full advantage of the perfect pitch, and though the bowling was steady enough to keep the scoring rate moderate, Keeton and Knowles passed the century unseparated before lunch, and Hardstaff and Gunn built on to this advantageous opening a • fine partnership, taking the score to 199 for the fourth wicket. Hardstaff’s batting suggested that the bowlers will find him difficult to dislodge on a good wicket in the test. Cowie again bowled with great heart, but the unhelpful wicket minimised his menace. Dunning pegged away determinedly. He might easily have had more success, several times beating the bat, but missing the stumps. The Tindill-Moloney combination again captured a wicket. Tindill’s work was very steady, there being only two byes in the first three hundred. ’Neither Roberts nor Weir appeared to cause the batsmen undue worry, though a difficult catch was missed in the dips off the latter. In the absence of Vivian and Gallichan, Donnelly shouldered the left hand slow bowling fairly expensively, till the wood was laid on late in the day by Gunn and Voce. New Zealand faced a difficult task in dismissing a strong batting side on a beautiful wicket; nevertheless their performance in this match is an encouragement for the test. The match was drawn. Details:—> NEW ZEALAND. First innings .... ... 42S NOTTS. First innings ... ... ... 163 Second Innings. Keeton c Page b Dunning ... ... 75 Knowles b Roberts 57 Walker st Tindill b Moloney 6 Hardstaff b Dunning 110 Gunn not out ... ... ... 149 Staples b Dunning ... ... ... ... 1 Voce not out ... 52 Extras 4 Total (five wickets) ... 454 (Bowling Analysis.—Cowie, none for 58 ; Roberts, one for 65; Moloney, one for 55; Dunning, three for 129; Donnelly, none for 77; Weir, none for 54; Page, none for 12. Dunning bowled one no-ball.