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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 June 1924, Page 7

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SOUTH AFRICA v. ENGLAND. SECOND TEST MATCH. -fY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, June 28. The second test match between England and South Africa opened to-day in fine weather. The visitors won the toss and, batting on a good wicket, made 273. The personnel of the English 'team is: Gilligan, Fender, Wood, Chapman, Hobbs, Woolley, Sutcliffe, Hearne, Hendren, Tate and Dick Tyldesley. The King arrived after the commencement of play, and the' game was stopped while the teams lined up and shook hands. At lunch the score was three wickets down for 72. At the tea adjournment I here were 20,000 present. One hundred was hoisted in 143 minutes. Susslcind, who was sound throughout, was strong on the off side, and hit six fours. Catterall played a brilliant innings, off driving and square legging well. He hit 16 fours, and gave a chance at 30. He batted for 195 minutes. Deane was driving vigorously, and Faulkner gave many strokes reminiscent of his old form'.’ The inniims ended at 5.50. The Englishmen commenced at ten past six. They hit freely, and scored 16 in the first five minutes. Stumps were drawn with the total at 28 without loss. Details:

SOUTH AFRICA. First Innings. Taylor, c Wood, b Gilligan 4 Commaille, 1.b.w., b Gilligan 0 Susskincl, e Tate, b Hearne 64 Nourse, c Woolley, b Tate 7 4 Catterall, 'b Gilligan 120 Deane, b Tyldesley 33 Blanckenberg, b Tate 12 Pegler, c Fender, b Tyldesley 0 Ward, b Tyldesley 1 Parker, not out 1 Faulkner, b Fender 25 Extras 9 Total 273 Bowling analysis.—Gilligan took three wickets for 70 runs; Tate, two for 62 ; Tyldesley, three for 52 ; Hearne, one for 35; Fender, one for 45. . ENGLAND. First Innings. Hobbs, not- out 12. Sutcliffe, not out 121 Extras 14 Total for no wickets 28 The South Africans made an extraordinary recovery after losing such batsmen as Taylor, Commaille and Nourse for 17 runs. The next four wickets added the bulk of the runs with an addition of 248, the team being out for 273. The last three wickets accounted for the addition of only eight runs.

The South Africans made more runs than they should have done, misses by Wood at the wickets and by Woolley in the slips contributing tenvards Catterall’s score, which is identical with his score in the first test. His effort was a fair mixture. ■ At times he was flukey, but sometimes he was brilliant. He w : as missed three times off Gilligan. Susskind played flawlessly. The English bowling was not deadly, but the fielding was, for the most part, good. AFRICANS’ POOR FIELDING. LONDON. June 27. Missed chances cost the’ Africans the match. Blanckenberg was the chief sufferer. The bowlers always bad the advantage on the worn wicket, but Leyland batted attractive]v. He had a charmed life. Falcon. Bryan and Boggart were also missed. Chapman was rnn out in a curious manner, a bard drive by Rhodes being deflected from Nnpen’c: hand into the wicket.