THE FIFTH TEST
AUSTRALIA’S FINE EFFORT
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.} iPer Press Association.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) London, August 16. Australia’s first innings closed for 389. Andrews, 1.h.w., b Parkin 94 Taylor, c Woolley, b Douglas 75 Pellew, c Woolley, b Parkin 1 Armstrong, c Brown, b Douglas... 19 Gregory, st Brown, b Parkin 87 Oldfield, not out 28 Mailey, b Woolley 'o* McDonald, st Brown, b Woolley 36 j Extras 12 Bowling analysis: Hitch two for 65, Douglas three for 117, Fender none tor 82, Parkin three for 82, Woolley two for 31. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) London, August 16. England in their second innings had two wickets down for 244: Russell, not out 101 Brown, c Mailey, b Taylor 84 Fender, c Armstrong, b Mailey ... 6 Hitch, not out 51 Extras 2 Bowling analysis: Gregory none for 13, MacDonald none for 20, Mailey one for 77, Pellew none for 25, Andrews none for 44, Taylor one for 25, Collins none for 38. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) London, August, 16. Andrews and Taylor added 81 in 40 minutes by sparkling batting. At 92 the former was missed, but was out leg before In the same over. Four for 233. Taylor, with Armstrong in, kept up his bright display though the field was closed in to stop run-getting. Douglas took the ball and slowed the scoring down. At 288 he got Armstrong caught behind the wicket, and Taylor also fell to him. Gregory and Oldfield kept the score moving till the former was stumped. When MacDonald came in he hit the bowlers all over the place. He was caught once of a no-hall, and was missed later on. His partnership with Oldfield added 51 in half an hour. The innings occupied 325 minutes. When England went in again Gregory and MacDonald took the bowling to Russell and Brown. The latter was missed from a hot return to the former. When the crack bowlers could not shift the batsmen they were not persevered with, and the game degenerated into a farce, allowing the batsmen to improve their tost averages at the expense of the inferior bowling. « The attendance was 14,000. |
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 August 1921, Page 4
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361THE FIFTH TEST Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 August 1921, Page 4
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