CRICKET.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 December 1924, Page 10

CRICKET.

THE FIRST TEST.

AUSTRALIA MAKES 450,

ENGLAND NO WICKETS FOR 72

OPINION IN ENGLAND

TATE AND PONSFORD

NEWSPAPER TRIBUTES

» • • ' 'ri-VIAnON I’OPVI!TGH r L' (Received Dec. 22. 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 21. The Test, matdi is Being followed most eagerly. All thoughts in the Home cricket world from the highest to the humblest are being directed towards the game in -Sydney. The newspapers are serving the public generously with descriptive cables. Theie is a general feeling of hopefulness concerning England’s prospects, though there is no indication of an underestimation of Australian prowess. Naturally the will to win predominates. The Observer editorially says that an Australian crowd knows .what it is watching, and all reports indicate that a profound impression has been made by Tate, but it is clear that the Australians can give nothing away. They are the toughest of fighters, and in Ponsford they have found a brilliant batsman of the highest promise. Fender in the Sunday Express says: “No words are too high for Ponsford and Tate. Both more than justified the great things hoped of them. England has yet a great task. I anticipate a record collective scoring throughout the tests, with the balance finally represented merely by the respective fielding merits.” SYDNEY, Dec. 20. The first test match between Australia' and England was continued today. When stumps were drawn at the end of the first day’s play yesterday' the Australians had lost three wickets for 282, and to-day the innings was completed with a total of 450. England has 72 on without the loss of a wicket. The weather was fine, with passing clouds, when Australia resumed their first innings with A. Richardson (21 not out) and Taylor (1 not out) at the crease. A stiff wind blowing down the pitch from the north-east made conditions a littlfe unpleasant, but did not deter the large crowd (which numbered 25,000 when Gilligan led his men into the field and increased during the afternoon to 47,000), from witnessing an interesting game. Tate opened the bowling on a hard wicket with the wind behind him, and the ball came in very quickly. After eight minutes’ play Richardson fell a victim to the last ball of Hearne’s first over. His brother/ Y. Richardson, succeeded him, and with Taylor carried the score along nicely, three hundred being hoisted for 317 minutes’ play. Both batsmen gave a fine display, cutting and glancing. The Englishmen’s fielding was quite up to the high-standard of the previous dayj so that although both batsmen were hitting hard the fieldsmen lot little past them. After an hour’s play the score had only, increased by 39. Richardson •vas stepping out to Hearne and driv-. ■ng him, and Hearne, in stopping one of these, hurt his hand and had to retire. Kilner took the field and Hearne’s over was abandoned. He had been dropping the ball just in front of the crease and had to be played carefully. Tate, who was bowling up to his usual form, was snitched several times to the boundary-. • Both Taylor and - Richardson were cautious in running between the wickets and might, have obtained many more singles. Taylor had a narrow escape, blit before lunch he went to urn off Richaidson’s cut, but the latter sent him back. He was well out from the c’-ease when the ball was sent in, buc Freeman missed it and one was gained from the overthvoAv. Taylor went, out to the fourth ball after lunch. He had batted for ninety-six minutes and had helped to carry the score from 275 to 364. Y. Richardson played a useful innings and batted for ninetv-t-lires minutes, his partnership with Taylor yielding ,~S. The loss of Taylor and Richardson .changed.the comnlexion of the Austnilia.n innings till Mailey joined- Oldfield. With the board showing nine wickets for 388 runs, Strudwick missed stumping Keilewav off a ball-which the latter stepped out'to hut plaved over. Ihc Mailev-Oldfield partnership proved most excß’ng and aroused great enthusiasm. It yielded 62 runs. The batting was attractive and neither man gave a chance. The field was placed close in. but the batsmen managed to find outlets. They remained associated for eightv-seven minutes. The brant of the bowling fell on Tate and Freeman. The Englishmen proved themselves . adepts at picking up the ball 111 their stride and returning it accurately. The innings, which ’lasted 504 minutes, produced 450 runs. England opened their first innings with a little over an horn- to go. Hobbs and Sutcliffe taking strike to Gregory and Mailev. Gregory was the first bowler and had the advantage of the wind, but ho bowled rather err-itien'ly Many balls off the wicket, had jnst to be touched to go to the boundary. The batsmen plaved cautiously. ’ The field was placed well out and a number of short singles were obtained. Hobbs was stepping out to Mailey. hitting him hard. The. Australian fielding was capable of improvement. Fiftv runs appeared in fortv-five minutes, the result of bright, attractive batting, both men exhibiting a nice style. When stumps were drawn the Englishmen had scored 72 with their wickets intact. Tate was the hero of the day. In the rout of the Australian's after lunch he cantured five wickets, four of them for nine runs, and showed splendid cons'stency throughout. He bowled altogether forty-five overs, five of which u cio maidens. Considering the amount of energy he puts into his work the task was a herculean one, yet he stood tiie strain well. Freeman was called on almost, as much as Tate. He bowled fortv-eight overs, but as with all googly artists, no line! not to expend so much energy. Of the 152 overs of the innings Tate and Freeman bowled 193. and thev deserved great credit for the wav'thev stuck to their job. Details:— AUSTRALIA. First Innings. Collins, c Hendren, b Tate 114 Bardsley. c Woolley, b Freeman .. 21 Ponsford, b Gilligan no A. Richardson, b Hearne 22 Taylor, b Tate 43 Y. Richardson, b Freeman 42 Keilewav, e Woolley, b Tate .... 17 Hendry, c Strudwick, b Tate .... 3

Gregory, c Strudwick, b Tate .... 0 Oldfield, not out 39 Mailey, b Tate 21 Extras 18 Total 450 Bowling analysis.—Tate took six wickets for 130 runs, Gilligan one for 92, Freeman two for 124, Hearne one foT 28, Woolley none for 35, Hobbs none for 13, Chapman none for 19. Fall of wickets. One for 46, two for. 236, three for 275, four for 286, five for 364, six for 374, seven for 387, eight for 387, nine for 388, ten for 400. ENGLAND. First Innings. Hobbs, not out 42 Sutcliffe, not out 28 Extras 2 Total (for 110 wickets) 72 WORLD’S RECORD CLAIMED. SYDNEY, Dec. 21. The test match is already responsible for three records. The Collins-Ponsford 190 for the second wickets made on Friday is a test match record for a second wicket. Yesterday’s attendance of 47,152 and the gate money (£4806) are both claimed to be world’s records 1 SYDNEY, Dec. 21. The weather has been dull and threatening all day, with rain hanging about. The icant of Hearne’s right fore-finger is badly bruised and an arm is injuied. The arm jarred' required medical attention. TOWN V. COUNTRY. (HY TET/RGK *.-p T r— PRFSS ASSOCIATION ) WELLINGTON, Dec. 21. The Town v. Country match was played on a wicket affected by rain, with, the result that low scoring ruled. Scores:— COUNTRY. —lsfc Innings. Orr, c Burt, b Brice 9 Cameron, c Burt, b Brice -5 Temperton, c Burt, b Babcock ... 0 Beuth, 1.b.w., b Brice 4 Bernau, b Brice 8 Holland, e White, b Babcock 3 Ritchie, b Babcock 4 Gee, b Badcock ' 14 Pearson, not out 7 Cole, e and b Badcock 18 Hope, c Baker, b Badcock 0 Extras 10 Total ............. - 82 Bowling.—Badcock, 6 for 21; Brice, 4 for 46 : McGirr, 0 for 5., TOWN. —Ist Innings. Westbrook, c Pearson, b Bernau ... 0 Banks, b Holland 7 Burt, b Hope 19 Badcock', b Holland 5 Baker, b Cole 24 Hiddlestone, b Bernau .- 34 McGirr, c Gee, b Temperton 2 Jacobsen, b Temperton 0 Brice, b Bernau 5 Haughey, 1.b.w., b Temperton I James, not out 1 Extras ... 9 Total ..106 'Of the nine extras, eight were noballs. Bowling.—Bernau, 3 for 23; Holland, 2 for 37: Hope, 1 for 14; Temperton, 3 for 12; Cole, 1 for 2. COUNTRY.—2nd Innings. Ritchie, not out i 12 Beuth. b Haughey 5 Pearson, b Haughey 0 Gee, st. James, b McGirr 1 Cameron, not out 8 Extras ] Thre wickets for 27 'Bowling—Badcock, 0 for 7; Haughey, 2 for 16: McGirr, 1 for 3. PLUNKET SHIELD. WELLINGTON REP. TEAM. WELLINGTON, Dec. 20. The following twelve players have been chosen to represent Wellington in the Plunket Shield match with Canterbury, to be played at Christchurch on January 2 and 3:—-Banks. Badcock. Burt, Dempster, Collins, James, Grant, McGirr. Brice, Hiddlestone, Henderson, Holland. VY. A.- Bake* was not available. The team will leave for Christchurch on December 30. D. C. Collins will be captain. SATURDAY’S GAMES. SENIOR MATCHES. Cricketers on Saturday were favoured with glorious weather for their games. The first round of the senior competition matches was con'd pried with this series of fixtures. Midland beat Stratford bv 10 wickets, and Eltham heat Manaia by four wickets. Patea forfeited to Okaiawa owing to inability to get a team to travel. The following table reveals the positions of the clubs at the end of the first round : Excelsior 12 points Eltham 9 ~ Manaia 8 Midland 7 ~ Okaiawa 6 ~ Stratford 5 ~ Patea 2 j, MIDLAND v. STRATFORD. This match was played in Hawera on a slow wicket, and resulted in a win for Midland by 10 wickets. The play was not of a high standard, and generally did not reach senior standard. Stratford were gi'eatly handicapped by the absence of Cole and Lambert. Good howling figures were obtained by Giblin five for 11, Inch five for 11, Neilsen four for 23 and Knight five for 28, and two splendid catches were made by Tiddy for Midland and Kean for Stratford. The following are the details of the play: STRATFORD—First Innings. Claridge, c Vowless, b Nielsen ... 10 Niehol, b ‘Giblin 8 Furrie, e Tiddy, b Nielsen 2 Young, run out 5 Knight, h Giblin 0 Palmer, 1.b.w.. b Nielsen 8 Massey, c Plank, b Nielsen 0 Kean. 1) Giblin q Wood, h Giblin "... 0 R. Young, b Giblin 0 P. McCarthy, not ; out 0 Total 34 Bowling analysis: Nielsen four for 23, Giblin five for 11. Second Innings. Claridge, b Inch 29 Furrie, b Giblin 4 Wood, c Dalgleish, b Inch 16 Young, b Graham 4 Knight, not out 6 Rainier, st. Thomas, b Graham ... 0 Kean. .st. Thomas, b Graham 0 Niehol, b Inch 9 Massey, c Nielsen, b Inch "... 0 R. Young, b Inch 3 McCarthy, run. out ]. Extras 6 Total 78 Total first innings 34 Grand total 112 Bowling analysis: Nielsen none for 1-3, Giblin one for 14, Inch five for 11, Graham three for 34.

MIDLAND—First Innings. Dalgleish, c Furrie b Young S Thomas, b Knight 1 Graham; c Furrie, b Knight 4 Nielsen, 1.b.w., b Knight 7 Vowless, 1.b.w., b Knight 1 Plank, c Kean, b Knight 0 J. Davies, b Palmer 23 Mills, c Knigth, b Kean 23 Giblin, not out 23 Inch, 1.b.w., b Palmer 0 Tiddy, b Young 1 Extras 14 . Total' 105 Bowling analysis: Young two for 35, Knight hve for 28, Nichoi none for 13, Kean one for 1, Claridge none for 8, Palmer two for 6. Second Innings. Yowless, not out 3 Plank, not out 7 Total for no wickets 10' Total first innings 105 Grand total 115 Bowuiig analysis: Young none for 6, ivmghc. none for 5. EL/i’HAM v. MAN ALA. On the ground of the former this game endeu in a three point win for one home side by ioar wickets. Plmpotts had a great deal with liis side’s wm by- making IS and 26 not out, and taking three wickets for 18 and seven for 25. Batting first, Manaia made 40 (Clarke gl), to which Eltham responded with "only 20 (Pliilpotts 18). •Manaia second innings totalled 53 (Hughes 20j, thus leaving EEtham 65 to win. The runs were obtained for the loss of six wickets (Pliilpotts getting 26 not out, Johnson 20 not out, and Donnelly 10). Bowling for Eltham, Priest got four wickets for 18 runs, Pliilpotts three for 18 and seven for 25, Donnelly three for- 4 and Hay three for 21. For Manaia Bairstow took six wickets for 11 and Hughes four for 16. NEW PLYMOUTH' GAMES. Old Boys, 247, beat High School, 142 (Maliraj 35. Fletcher 29. McLean 17, Strombom 22. Fletcher 13, Beveridge 14) and 136 for five wickets (Fookes 31, M&ck.ay 51 not out, Fletcher 17, Mab.raj 13 not outh bv 105 runs on the first, innings. Bowling for Old Boys. Osborne three for 51. and one for 27. Palmer three for 21 and none for !1, Bottrill one for 34 and.three for 49. Eggleton two for 31 and none for 15.