HOLIDAY CRICKET

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 September 1938, Page 7

HOLIDAY CRICKET

AUSTRALIANS AHEAD McCABE AND WARD IN FORM [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] LONDON, September 5. The Australian cricket team, resuming its match at Folkestone with an English eleven, made 390. The Australian tail-enders were dismissed within an hour. Waite recorded his highest score of the tour. He hit 10 fours. O’Reilly, who was more sedate than usual, carried his bat for an excellent 40, leaving Australia in a sound position against England’s strong batting. The weather was cool and dull. Several English wickets went cheaply before lunch, Waite and Ward causing a collapse, which was finally arrested by Ames. Big leg breaks from Ward resulted in the dismissal of Paynter and Compton. England had lost 4 for 89 when Ames came in. Immediately into fine form, he made a sparkling 50 in 45 minutes.

Ward gave the most imposing performance of the tour. He continued to . bowl magnificently with a vicious spin, and had Valentine stumped. Then he sent back Ames with a smart low right-hand return catch. Ames batted 80 minutes and hit one six and ten fours.

O’Reilly, dismissing Alfred Pope, took his hundredth wicket of the tour.

G. Pope hit usefully while the tailenders were dismissed. The innings lasted 180 minutes. McCabe and Brown scored 45 in 35 minutes, .when a catch at the wicket ended Brown’s polished innings.

A boundary from Wilkinson carried McCabe’s score to 26, thus reaching his thousand runs on the tour. McCabe with a glorious array of hooks, pulls and drives, looked certain to reach the century, when he was superbly caught low in the gully. He batted 75 minutes, during which he made 91 of a total of 139. His score included 17 fours.

Badcock was dashing along when Woolley held a great one-handed slip catch. Australia passed the 200 in two hours. Scores: —

AUSTRALIA—First 'lnnings. Brown, b A. V. Pope 3 Bad cock, run out 21 Hassett, b Todd 18 Barnes, c Woolley, b Todd .. .. 91 Bingleton, b Compton 12 Barnett, b G. Pope 82 McCabe, st. Levett, b Wilkinson 26 White lbw., b G. Pope .. 27 Waite, c Levett, b Todd .. .. 60 O’Reilly, not out 40 Ward, c Levett, b Todd .. .. 2 Extras 8 Total 390 Bowling—A. Pope took one wicket for 73 runs; Todd, four, for 97; Wil? kinson, one for 75; G. Pope, two for 101; Compton, one for 19; Woolley, none for 17. ENGLAND Xl.—lst Innings. Woolley, c Badcock, b. Waite .. 5 Fagg, c White, b Waite .. .. ,22 Paynter, b Ward 14 Compton, b Ward 17 Ames, c and b Ward 78 Valentine, st. Barnett, b Ward .. 15 G. Pope, not out 41 Todd, b Ward 13 A.. Pope,lbw., b O’Reilly .. ... 5 Levett, b Ward 3 Wilkinson, b Ward 0 Extras 1° Total 223 Bowling: Waite 2 for 28, McCabe 0 for 1, O’Reilly 1 for 54, Ward 7 for 112, White 0 for 7. AUSTRALIA,—2nd Innings. Brown, c Levett, bA. Pope .. 22 McCabe, c Valentine, b Todd .. 91 Badcock, c Woolley, b Wilkinson 33 Hassett, b Wilkinson 18 Barnes, lbw., b Wilkinson .. .. 15 Barnett, not out .. .. •• « Extras 1° Total for 5 wickets .. .. 204 OTHER MATCHES. (Received September 6, Noon.) LONDON, September 5. Marylebone, first, 345 (Wyatt 149). Yorkshire, first, 6 for 164 (Leyland ,not out 60). Gloucester, first, 488 (Emmett 88). Sussex, first, 341 (J. Parks 118, Cox 102, Scott 4 for 88). Gloucester, second, 0 for 7. COVERED WICKETS OPPOSED. (Recd. September 6, 11 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG, September 5. Marylebone rejected the South African proposal to cover wickets in the coming tour, on the ground that “the principle was opposed to cricket laws.” It is feared the decision will affect the finance.

CAHN TEAM’S PROGRAMME. CHRISTCHURCH, September 5. An itinerary of nine matches, including a match against New Zealand at Wellington and provincial games in each of the other three centres, has been arranged by the New Zealand Cricket Council for Sir Julien Cahn’s te'am, which will tour the Dominion in February and March. The personnel of the touring team has not yet been announced, but the indications are that it will be a. very strong team. The programme is as follows: February 11.—v. Combined Colleges at Auckland. February 14 and 15. —v. South Auckland at Hamilton. February 17 and 18.—v. Taranaki, at New Plymouth. February 20 and 21. —v. a Combined Minor Associations’ XI at Palmerston North. February 24, 25, and 27. —v. Canterbury, at Christchurch. March 1 and 2. —v. Combined South Island Colleges, at Oamaru. . March 3,4, and 6. —v. Otago, at Dunedin. March 10, 11, and 13.—v. New Zealand, at Wellington. March 17, 18, and 20. —v. Auckland, at Auckland; CABLES SERVICES. "By special arrangement, Reuter’s world service In addition to other special sources of information 13 used In the compilation of the > overseas Intelligence published in this issue, and all rights therein In Australia and New | Zealand are reserved.”