TEST CRICKET.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 December 1924, Page 9

TEST CRICKET.

EXTRA EDITION.

TO-DAY'S PLAY: SAIN FALLING. BRILLIANT BOWLING. PR£I§R TATE. SY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT (Received Dec. 22, 1.20 p.nu) - ' SYDNEY, Dee. 22. 1S dull and unsettled, -tne indications are that it is. clearing Only a very light shower fell, and if no more fall will probably ’■ benefit the wicket. Hearne’s will npt prevent him batting totflfify Tate bowled 00, not 45, overs. <.l: •*!. (Received Dec. 22. 1.40 p.m.) •. . ; Light ram is falling'. >-and - the prospects for cricket TaYe' v iiot Tfifight. Commenting fm-the ; teW>fericket, the Herald, referring to-*' Tate’s bowling, says that though 1 - the figures tell their own tale, the^f-gjye”'n6 "“adequate conception of th§ > oi&jlirari Co, stamina, accuracy of pitched hostility displayed - ma king theipi*- 1 He ? bowled with little i fhc.(#ragdnip.nt 'ffonr'ffdrtririe and The* ekrly 5 'Stages, but hi.s energy, zeal and will to succeed' neveni faltered ipst worked and waited, ahti' the reivardt canie'iri the end. thertwo- days’ = bowling he scarcely ‘sent' down "one bad length hall. No single batsman played him with ' any degr&Tof comfbft, ' Tate earned £ Jr? E-Uglis]fi'howler within' the last three .decade's, "or' in the last 72 tests, who has captured as many as six wickets in an igriings in his first AngloAustfialiqi'n test ‘ 1 match. Regarding n reeipan, the Herald says the accuracy ot pitch he maintained throughout was quite -surprising and very commenda -it. -ivery, few of his deliveries were pitched short of a good length; and the overtossed ones, when thev happened along,' pcpasipnally were most difficult ™ Set through the brilliant' off field. Ihe - Australian batting - -was ■ patchy, f,”r aggressive qualities c£w ' as *° c,a * etl « ; ith international

A GOOD WICKET

HOBBS AND SUTCLIFFE

(Bj, to Star.) mu* ' Deo. 22. . - Abe weather is -fine arid the wicket is good. England have lost no wickets for 121 °“ tl 7 - !