COUNTY CRICKET

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 August 1936, Page 7

COUNTY CRICKET

SERIES OF CENTURIES

DEMPSTER’S GOOD SCORE

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(Recd. August 8, Noon.) LONDON, August 7.

County cricket results were: — Surrey, first, 204 (Mitchell 5/88); second 7/315 (Barling 102). Derby, first 321 (Smith 106). Derby won on the first innings.

Sussex, first 323 (H. Parks not out 107). Hampshire, first, 91 (Tate 7/19). Followed on 146 (J. Parks 4/19). Sussex won by an innings and 86 runs. Kent, first 275 (Valentine 73). Second 7/197 declared (Valentine not out 102). Lancashire, first, 237 (Iddon 132). Second 5/241. Lancashire won by five wickets.

Yorkshire, first, 384 (Leyland 113). Worcester, first innings, 94 (Verity 6/46). Followed on, 75 (Smailes 7/24). Yorkshire won by an innings and 215 runs.

Notts, first, 309 (Hardstaff 112, Astill 5/57). Leicester, first, 249 (Dempster not out 67, Woodhead 6/49). Notts won on the first innings. Glamorgan, first, 207. Second 106. Somerset, fjrst, 193; second 2/122. Somerset won by eight wickets. Middlesex, first, 410 (Webster 111, Hendren 127). Second 1/19. Gloucester, first, 154 (Sims 5/60). Followed on 273 (Sinfield 97). Middlesex won by nine wickets.

India, first innings, 249 (Hussain, not out 101, Mayer 4 for 18). Warwick, second innings three for 219 declared (Croom 56, Wyatt not out 57). India, second innings three for 54. Match drawn.