Match With Sheffield Shield Holders

Northern Advocate, 31 October 1936, Page 7

Match With Sheffield Shield Holders

(By-J. B. Hobbs.)

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(Received 10 a.m.) ADELAIDE, October 30. SOUTH AUSTRALIA DISMISSED ENGLAND FOR THE MODERATE SCORE OF 233 AT THE PICTURESQUE ADELAIDE OVAL TODAY. WHEN ENGLAND HAD LOST FOUR WICKETS FOR 84, THE POSITION LOOKED NONE TOO STRONG IN SPITE OF THE REGRETTABLE ABSENCE OF BRADMAN, BUT HAMMOND AND HARDSTAFF MADE A VALUABLE STAND FOR 54. The weather was cold for Australia. The wicket was on the slow side, like an easy-paced English wicket. All the same it was fast compared with the wet, slow one on which the Englishmen had practised yesterday. Most of them have not yet gauged the difference in pace between the English and Australian wickets. Cotton was able to make a few balls lift. From one of these on the leg' side Barnett was caught. This was at 19, but earlier, when the score was only 9, Fagg had been clean bowled. Boundary To Start. Hammond started to make strokes as if he had been in an hour, seeing the ball perfectly. He hit. the first ball he received hard to leg for 4. In the same over he made a splendid cover drive to the boundary, but Richardson made a double change with Grimmett and Ryan and the slow bowlers placed their mid-on and mid-off very deep, rendering it difficult to force the ball away. " ,

Though the batting was slow until the lunch interval, I found it interest-

Hammond's Batting Hat Trick

With wickets falling fast, Hammond obviously could not indulge in fireworks, but he was always looking for runs. In his three first-class matches of the tour Hammond has made three centuries.

Sims was beaten by what looked suspiciously like a googly from Ward, who, I know, has one in his repertoire. Ward, on his form, looks a likely can- 1 didate for one of the trial matches.

ing and the spectators fully appreciated the keen wicket. Worthington was run out by sheer bad luck, as at Perth. Walker smartly stumped Fishlock off Grimmett. Hardstaff was deceived by the flight of a ball from Ward, who bowls slow leg spinners, and was easily caught and bowled when attempting a drive. Ryan, a slow, medium off-spinner, had six men on the on-side and two on the boundary. Pitching on, or outside, the leg stump, he kept the batsmen quiet. Richardson’s Captaincy.

After tea Ward got Allen caught at the deep leg off a full toss. It was a nicely judged catch by Moyle, who came in through Bradman’s absence. Richardson changed his bowlers remarkably well and never let the batsmen get on top except during Hammond’s first five minutes. Hammond never looked in danger of getting out. He invariably got the ball on the middle of his bat and timed perfectly. When he drove a ball it went to the boundary fast in spite of the slow outfield. It is * just as well for the poor bowlers that Hammond and Bradman are not in the same team.