AUSTRALIANS v. KENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1934, Page 7

AUSTRALIANS v. KENT

CENTURY BY McCABE O’REILLY’S 100th WICKET [BY CABLE—PRESS assn. —COPYRIGHT.) (Recd. September 1, 10 a.m.) LONDON, August 31. Play was not resumed till 12.30. Chapman, presumably anxious to give the disappointed crowd an opportunity to view the Australians batting, declared. There was also a prospect of the Australians having to battle for runs, as hot sunshine followed the saturation of the wicket. However, the first half-hour’s play suggested the wicket was too sodden to assist the bowlers, whose foothold was insecure.' Ponsford and. McCabe played them with ease, the former slamming Ashdown for six to square leg. The wicket after lunch still looked easy. McCabe was in great form, driving powerfully. He was especially severe on Freeman, and reached the seventh hundred during the tour in 130 minutes. He hit eleven fours, ahd gave one, of the best displays during the tour'. Bradman declared when Woolley dismissed McCabe. Ponsford was sound and vigorous, and hit a sixer and three fours.

Kent reopened with 90 minutes left. Ashdown first provided O’Reilly with his hundredth first-class wicket during the tour. The Australian bowlers were able to extraqt life from the pitch where Kent failed. Fleetwood-Smith, making the ball break prodigiously, reached a hundred wickets for the tour.

Apparently by mutual arrangement, stumps were drawn when the seventh wicket fell, ten minutes before time. Scores:

KENT —First. Innings 2 for 21 declared. AUSTRALIA —First Innings. Ponsford, not out 82 McCabe, 1.b.w., b Woolley .. .. 108 Extras 7 Total for 1 wicket 197 Bowling: Ashdown 0 for 36, Watt 0 for 30, Davies 0 for 27, Todd 0 for 42, Freeman 0 for 49, Woolley 1 for 6. KENT —Second Innings. Ashdown, b O’Reilly .. .. 1 Woolley, c Bradman, b FleetwoodSmith 22 Todd, b Ebeling 3 Chalk, c McCabe, b FleetwoodSmith 7 Davies, b Fleetwood-Smith .. 16 Valentine, b Fleetwood-Smith .. "12 Knott, c Ponsford, b Ebeling .. 6 Chapman, not out .... 0 Extras 7 Total for 7 wickets 74 Bowling: Ebeling 2 for 21, O’Reilly 1 for 8, Fleetwood-Smith 4 for 30 Kippax 0 for 8. Match drawn. COUNTY SEASON ENDED. LONDON, August 31. Rain interfered with the last round of County cricket. Results: — Notts, first 219 (Sims 5/67); second 5/252 declared (Walker 111, Hardstaff 84). Middlesex, first 238 (Voce 4/83); second 3/64. Middlesex won on the first innings. •• Derby, first 181; second 229. Leicester, first 198; second 179. Derby won by 42 runs. Hampshire, first 9/269 declared. Worcester, first 7/137 (Boyes 4/37). Match drawn. Yorkshire, first 263 (J. Cornford 6/57); second 8/225 declared. Sussex first 289 (Tate 77, Smailes 5/57); second 1/15. Sussex won on the first innings. Glamorgan, first 173 (Fender 8/79); second 4/148. Surrey, first 220 (Clay 7/95). Surrey won on the first innings. LEG-THEORY CONTROVERSY. LONDON, August 31. Two Middlesex batsmen were injured at Lord’s by bumpers from Voce. Muncer was struck on the head and had to be helped off. He took no further part in the match. Beveridge was hit on the arm but returned to the field after medical examination. The “Daily Telegraph” says: The first move towards a lasting solution of the bowling problem was made today, when an informal meeting of Marylebone at Lord’s, discussed ways and means of settling the controversy. No statement was issued.