GAME ABANDONED

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 August 1926, Page 5

GAME ABANDONED

WARWICKSHIRE MATCH.

HOME TEAM’S BIG SCORE,

WET WEATHER PREVENTS PLAY

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 10.55 a.m. to-diay. LONDON, Aug. 6. Warwickshire in the first innings made 363 for nine wickets. Details are : WARWICKSHIRE. First Innings. Kilner, c Woodifull, b Gregory ... 13 Wyatt, b Gregory 19 Bates, b Gregory 13 Quaife,- b Ma i ley . 21 Parsons, st. Ellis, b Ma-iley 80 Santa-11, c Collins, b Mailey 38 Smith, b Ryder * 39 Calth-orpe, c Collins, b Gregory ... 18 Fiddian-Green, not out 49 Partridge, c Bardslev, b Mailey ... 1G He.wetsoii, not out 37 Extras 20 Total for nine wickets 363 Bowling analysis.—Gregory, four for 80; Hendry none for 31; Mailey, four for 131; Rvder, one for 54; Macartney, none for 47. Play, started at 12.45 p.m., the weather being blustrv an-d the wickets soft, after the rain. ‘There was only a sprinkling of spectators. FiddianGreen . and Hewetson made a Fright start, both cutting and driving powerfully and hitting Gregory and Mailey freely. They took th e total pa-st 349, which was the. previous best score by a county against the Australians, which was put up by Middlesex at Lord’s The pair played excellently all round the- wicket.

Torrential rain fell during the lunch hour, turning the ground into a morass and the game- was abandoned at 2.40 unfinished. The pair had put on 73 runs.—Reuter.

GLOUCESTER TEAM

Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Aug. G. The Gloucester team to meet the Australians will be chosen from Robinson, B. Lyon, L. Hedges, Seabrook, Melsonie, Wedel, Parker, Smith, Sinfield, Dipper, Goddard, and Mills. —Reuter.