CRICKET.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 79, 17 March 1923, Page 3

CRICKET.

M.C.U. v. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, March .16. The M.C.C. v. South Australia return match was continued to-day. The Englishmen scored 360 for the loss of nine wickets. Scores;— SOUTH AUSTRALIA. First Innings 490 M.C.C. First Innings. Hill-Wood, c Ambler, b Richardson 3 Wilson, st. Ambler, b Murray .... 78. Calthorpo, cV. Richard.-,on. b Car raghcr 96 Chapman, 1» Fisher 39 Lowry, b Bowley 17 Titchinarsh, b Fisher (» Alaclcan. c and b Fisher 37 Hartley, not out ”2 Brand, c Gibson, b Fisher 0 Freeman, not out 31 Hundries 7 Total for nine wickets 360 NOTES. (By “ Onlooker.”) The opening matches of the third round were commenced in Hastings on Saturday last. St. Matthew’s met Hastings and were outed for 67. Crosse, seven for 38, proved altogether too much for the Saints, and, supported ably by three for 16 from Napier, made the St. Matthew’s innings a procession.

Hastings, batting in their turn, but up 222 for eight wickets. Beuth batted well for 47 not out, while Napier hit lustily for 36. Wood compiled 40 rather luckily, gut Fryer made 22 in very good style.' Fannin’s 21, coming when they did, were of immeausrable value to his side. Extras put on 13 and 22, scoring very consistently.

Against Tomoana, High School gnve the best batting exhibition seen on Nelson Cricket Ground for a long time.

Potaka, the opening bat, ran up 54 in free, aggressive style; Williams. No. 2, made a pretty 14; Bickley hit up 27 in double quick time; Beuth batted sedately and soundly for a well-played 81 not out, and Holt made 28 in very steady fashion.

Geake bowled a very steady succession of overs, but Beard sent down the deadliest balls, but accompanied by too many loose ones.

Tomoana could only make 92 against the steady High School bowling. Downes made 46. but he never appeared at home.

Beuth bowled some very fine balls, but is inclined to get too wide of the stumps, in common with most bowl i of to-day, excepting perhaps MacDonald, Gibson, and Hall. Stephenson >’• > a big turn, but is still erratic, and seldom now bowls the off-breaking-]eg-break which is his trump in reputation and talk of Dame Rumour. Potaka swings most pronouncedly, ami got the difficult wicket.

The sensation of recent times ha c been the M.O.C. v. Victoria gam After collapsing for 71, the M.CJ.' had their bowling hit about till 617 was on the board—Love 192, Ransford 118 not out, Liddicut 102. Park 101 M.C.C., thanks to W. W. Hill-Wood, the Cambridge opening bat, and G. E. C. Wilson, the Yorkshire captain, put on 280 for no wickets, the gingerhaired ’Varsity man being 120 not out, and the stonewall from Harrow fields 140 not out. It was indeed a “wondrous recovery.”