M.C.C. STARTS WELL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22199, 9 December 1946, Page 9

M.C.C. STARTS WELL

• 129 FOR two wickets QUEENSLAND COUNTRY 228 SMITH BOWLS WELL (10 a.m.) BRISBANE, Dec. 3. The M.C.C. _ team is well placed against a combined Queensland country side when it started a two-day match on Saturday morning. The Englishmen shifted the Country players—who were drawn from ail parts of the State between Ipswich in the south-east corner to Cairns In the far north —for 208 runs which were brightly made in only 147 minutes. The Country players used a long handle against the English bowlers, but the small boundaries fore and aft the wickets were naturally an aid to rapid scoring. M.C.C. lost the toss but were at the wickets by 3 o'clock for a splendid start by Gibb and Fishlock who put on 82 for the first wicket before Gibb was, run out. The crowd totalled about 4000. Scores: i QUEENSLAND COUNTRY. First Tnnirtrfc

Total 208 BOWLING. Voce,. 2 wkts. for 34 runs; Pollard, none for 47; Smith, 5 for 80; Langridge, 2 for 21, Ikin, none for 6; Compton, 1

Total for 2 wickets .. ..129 Bowling: Johnson, 1 for 24; Ball, none for 29; Cockburn, none for 22; W. Tallon, none for 48; Allen, none for 8. Rain fell and stumps were drawn at 5.35 p.m.

first Innings. Barnes b Voce 2 Cockburn st. Evans b Voce 12 Zischke b Smith 32 Allen c Fishlock, b Smith 53 Stibe, c Evans, b Smith 5 Wright, h.wkt., b Compton 22 Johnson, b Langridge 40 Tallon, c Hardstaft', b Smith 11 Gartrell, not out 9 Semgreen, b Smith 5 Ball, c Pollard, b Langridge 0 Extras 17

for 3. M.C.C. First Innings. Gibb, run out .. 21 Fishlock, b Johnson .. .. 62 Hardstaff, not out .. 26 Langridge, not out .. .. 12 Extras .. 8