TOUR OF M.C.C. TEAM

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 27 January 1933, Page 6

TOUR OF M.C.C. TEAM

SECOND N.S.W. GAME YOUNG BATSMEN MAKE STAND FIVE 'WICKETS FOR -169 RUNS. BRADMAN BOWLED FOR ONE. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph; Copyright.) SYDNEY, Jan. 26. England’s return -cricket match * against / New South Wales commenced on -a. hot summer’s day on which the wicket favoured the batsmen. New Smith Wales batted first, and after they had lost three of .their best wickets for 67 runs the 19-year-old Brown and the 16-year-old Rowe .became established in a partnership which raised the score to 169. The score at the close was 169 for five wickets. The attendance was 23,238 and the takings £1661. ‘ , „ Fingleton and the 19-year-old Brown gave the New South Wales side a good start by making 58 before Fingle. ton was bowled around his legs. He was uncertain throughout, being dropped off Tate when his score was five. Brown was also dropped at five off Bowes. Bradman replaced Fingleton and swung wildly at the few balls he received until bo was bowled by a good length delivery. Kippax was caught at silly leg oil a bumper from Bowses, and the backbone of the New South Wales side was back in the pavilion at_the lunch adjournment with only 67 on the board.- •

Mitchell had taken two wickets foi 10 runs by the lunch adjournment and , improved this to three for 12 when in his first over after the adjournment he completely beat Cummins. The position was desperate when the left-hander Rowe, aged 16, partnered Brown, but Rowe, playing lus first representative game, raced to 40 in even time. The partnership for 50, of which Rowe contributed 3/, took only 36 minutes. Rowe glanced and cut with precision and did not hesitate to lift the ball into the unguarded outfield. He reached 50 in 40 minutes. He was particularly severe on Tate. Brown meanwhile was batting more confidently. His 50 occupied 125- minutes. The total was 160 for four wickets when a. thunderstorm stopped play at 3.20 p.m. Play was resumed at 4.42 p.m. Tea was taken at four and the players took the field at 4.15 p.m., but before a ball was bowled rain drove them off for half an hour. ( When play was resumed the light was bad and" Brown was caught in the slips without adding to his score. He had given a solid display any. with Rowe had retrieved the position for New South Wales. Love immediately appealed successfully against the light. Later it was announced that stumps would be drawn. The scores are:

NEW SOUTH WALES. Fingleton, b Mitchell 19 Brown, c Ames, b Bowes Bradman, b Mitchell - Kippax, c Mitchell, b Bowes 3 Cummins, b Mitchell **■ Rowe, not out Love, not out ” Extras 10 Total (for five wickets) ...... 169 To bat: Hill, Howell, Stewart, Unlvers. Bennett is twelfth man. The English team is: Wyatt (captain), Pataudi, Ames Leyland, Brown Hammond, Mitchell, 4 entj, Tate, Bowes, Duckworth. Larwood is twelfth man LEG THEORY CONTROVERSY FURTHER COMMENT AT HOME.

LONDON, Jan. 25. Mr. Stanley Jackson, speaking for Yorkshire at the annual meeting or the Marvlebone Club, considered the cable of protest from the Austialian Board of Cricket Control was m a conciliatory spirit. He hoped the Australians would accept the reply in the same spirit. Nothing in his cricket career had distressed him like this unfortunate atfan. The situation was so serious that he would do anything short or sacrificing the honour and reputation of the British peopie to put the difficulty right. , , Everyone regretted that tlio hoai cl had thought it necessary to cable the protest. It was now regretted in certain quarters that it was ever sent. It was essentia] that Marvlebone should support the team, for it was impossible to think that thej could have resorted to any method injurious to the game. It would be disastrous to cancel tlie tests. Mr. Jackson hoped they would continue to be played in an amicable spirit. “44”0 should all be careful, especially old cricketers, to say nothing to impugn sportsmanship in another country,” he said, “in my long experience I never knew, an Australian cricketer with whom I could find fault. The Australians' always observed the unwritten rules of cricket.” “Let us keep cricket as a game and not mix it with politics,,” writes Duleepsinhji in the “Star.” “I cannot imagine Englishmen refusing t-o buy Australian meat and other goods because there has been ill-feeling over a game. Mv only objection to the leg theory is that it makes the game uninteresting.'

IMPORTING DOMINION PLAYERS LORD HA4VKE CRITICAL, LONDON, Jan. 26. Lord Hawke, presiding at a Yorkshire meeting, strongly condemned the Lancashire League’s importation of Dominion cricketers, which was detrimental to international cricket. New Zealand had n.o sooner come into the test cricket arena than three of its players were taken.

DEMPSTER TO TOUR. * TEAM VISITING QUEENSLAND. 4VELLINGTON, .Jan. 28. It is reported from Australia that C. S. Dempster, Wellington’s cricket coach, has been included in a team of well-known Australian cricketers for a tour in Queensland, ft was previously stated that Dempster was contemplating a trip to Sydney and hoped ito make it in time to see the fifth