BIG CRICKET

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 May 1927, Page 5

BIG CRICKET

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME. MATCH WITH ESSEX. FIRST INNINGS’ SCORES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 9.55 a.m. to-day. LONDON, May 1(3. Essex in the first innings made 373. Details were: — ESSEX —First Innings. Cutmore, c Dacrc, b Merritt 47 Eastman, lbw, b McGirr 30 O ’Connor, lbw, b Lowry 65 Russell, b McGirr 76 Ashton, b McGirr 52 Douglas ,c Dempster, b McGirr 0 Harris, c Dempster, b McGirr 0 Nichols, c Lowry, b Cuninngham .. 61 Meston, b McGirr 0 Eastman, not out 15 Extras Total . 673 Bowling analysis: Bernau, none for 47; Cuninngham, one for 50; McGirr, six for 77; Merritt, one for 60; Blunt, none for 50; Dacre, none for 8; Lowry, one for 42; Oliver, none for 4. DESCRIPTION OF THE PI/AY. Received 11.45 a.m. to-day. The weather wa® dull and cold, with rain threatening, when the match was resumed. Rain had fallen overnight, but the pitch wa® not .seriously affected. The New Zealand attack was shared bv Bernau and McGirr, but Blunt soon relieved the former, who later, fielding at mid-off, unfortunately missed Outmore when lie Iliad reached 26. At 96 Merritt took over the ball, but the bowling generally, with the exception of McGirr, wa® erratic. At lunch the total had reached four for 205, and on resuming Russell and Ashton scored so fast that 74 were added in forty minutes. The game then took a turn in the visitor®’ favour, as McGirr iii one over clean-bowled Russell and got Douglas and Morris caught in the slips. Both were superb catches by Dempster. Lowry, who i® not a regular bowler, went on himself and got O’Connor, whose 65 included nine fours. Rain suspended play for ten minutes.. lihe Ashton who is playing for Essex is Hubert, not Claude. NEW ZEALAND.

First Innings , 289 Second Inning.s. Blunt, b O’Connor 21 Mill®, c Douglas, b Eastman 0 James, c Hip kin, b O’Connor 26 Lowry, not out 13 Dempster, not out 5 Extras 7 Total, for three wickets 72