THE CRICKET TESTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19388, 24 July 1926, Page 15

THE CRICKET TESTS.

FOURTH MATCH TO-DAY/

AUSTRALIANS' AVERAGES. FOUR PASS THOUSAND RUNS. The fourth test match between England and Australia will commence at Manchester to-day. Of the previous tests the first was abandoned, and the second and third were drawn. Thus a decisive result has yet to be reached between the two teams. Four of the Australians—Bardsley, Macartney, Woodfull and Andrews —have passed 1000 runs for the tour. Hendry is at the 'top of the batting averages, he played only two games before becoming ill. Macartney shows what a great allrounder he is by being virtually top of the batting averages and actually top of the bowling averages. Twenty-two individual centuries have been made by the Australians, Macartney and Woodfull contributing five each, Bardsley four, Gregory, Ponsford and Ryder two each, and Andrews and Richardson one each. Details of the Australians' averages are as follow:

BATTING. Inns. N.O. U.S. Total. Av. Hendry 2 0 71 139 69.50 Macartney .. 21 2 160 1188 62.52 Woodfull .. 22 3 201 1172 61.68 Bardsley u. 24 2 193* 1246 56.(53 Gregory .. 20 6 130* 677 48,35 Richardson 20 8 100 553 44.41 Ponsford 17 3 110* 592 42.28 Andrews t 27 2 164 1048 41.92 Ryder 23 5 108* 682 37.88 Collins I.: 17 i 99 539 33.68 Oldfield . 16 4 62* 334 27.83 Taylor 25 2 7G 495 21.52 Grimmett 10 1 41 185 20.55 Ellis 9 2 29 135 19.28 Mailey 13 4 21 71 7.88 Everett 5 0 19 32 6.40 *Not Out. BOWLING Wickets. Runs . Average. Macartney 47 683 14.53 Richardson 45 713 15.84 Grimmett 58 926 15.96 Mailey -,-a 75 1285 17.13 Taylor , 1 18 18.00 Ponsford 2 42 21.00 Everett srx 18 434 24.11 Collins 'i i 107 $5.75 A lid re W3 11 314 28.55 Ryder 20 574 28.70 Gregory 18 712 39.55