ENGLAND WINS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 August 1926, Page 5

ENGLAND WINS

“ASHES” RECOVERED

FINAL TEST CONCLUDED.

HOME TEAM SCORES 436.

AUSTRALIA REPLIES WITH -125,

BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 11.25 a.m. tc-dny. LONDON, Aug. 18. England in its second innings ini the final test made 436. Details follow: ENGLAND. First Innings -80 Second Innings. Hobbs, b Gregory 100 Sutcliffe, b Mailey 161 Woolley, 1.b.w., b Richardson 27 Hendren, c Oldfield, b Grimmett 15 Chapman, b Richardson '... 19 Stevens, c Alai ley, b Grimmett ... 22 Geary, c Oldfield, h Gregory 1 Rhodes, 1.b.w., b Grimmett 14 Tate, not out 33 Larwood, b Mailey 5 Strudwick, c Andrews, b Mailey 2 Extras 37 Total 436 Bowling analysis: Gregory two for 58, Grimmett three for 108, Mailey three for 128', Macartney none for 24. Richardson two for 81. Fall of wickets:-One for 172, two for 220, three for 277, four for 316, five for 373, six for 375, seven for 382, eight for 425, nine for 430. AUSTRALIA. First Innings 302 Second Innings. Australia in the second innings scored 125. Details are: Woodful], c Geary, b Larwood 0 PoiLsford, c Larwood, b Rhodes ... 12 Macartney, c Geary, b Larwood ... 16 Bardsley, e Woolley, b Rhodes ... 21 Collins, c Woolley, b Rhodes 4 Andrews, c Tate, b Larwood 15 Gregory, c Sutcliffe, b Tate 9 Richardson, b Rhodes 4 Oldfield, b Stevens 23 Grimmett, not out 8 Mailey, 1> Geary 6 Extras 7 Total 125 Bowling analysis: Larwood three for 34, Tate one for 12, Rhodes four for 44, Gearv one for 15, Stevens one for 13; Fall of wickets: One for 1, two for 31, three for 31, four for 35, five for 63, six for S 3, seven for 83, eight for 87, nine for 114.—Reuter. Am earlier message states: No rain fell overnight. Half am hour before the resumption of play raim .started and promised a downpour. It suddenly ceased and did not affect the wicket. Nevertheless the start was' belated. The weather is still dull and tlve wicket is beginning to wear.

England has the “ashes” once more after a period during which all the success has gone to the mem £rt»m Australia and England has had a very lean time. In 1911-12 England had a decisive win in Australia, and again im 1912 she retained her hold ora the “ashes” on her own wickets. And' it is a coincidence that on that occasion the deciding ■ match was played at the Oval, when England won by 244 runs. Surely that must he England's lucky and) Australia’s fatal trying-out ground. The match has been remarkable for several outstanding features- —first the comparatively small total by England, then the Avonderful stand made by the later Australians, Avith Collins’s historic innings, and then the Avonderful opening partnership of the two great English batsmen, ’Hobbs and Sutcliffe, and' the poor shoAvimg of the rest, and then the most dramatic episode of the tour —Anst/ralia’.s collapse. It is note-AVortliy that two'of England’s; older and .greatest players, Hobbs' and Rhodes, should haA’O had such a great share in the crowning triumph.