AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20619, 18 July 1930, Page 11

AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.

MATCH WITH SCOTLAND. HOME TEAM STARTS WELL. RAIN INTERRUPTS PLAY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON. July 16. Tlie Australian cricketers to-day began a match with Scotland at Edinburgh. Fairfax, Oldfield, McCabe and Wall are not playing for Australia. The Scotland side is Alexander, Anderson, Baxter, ■ Jones, Kerr, McTavish, Nicholson, Siev- ! wright, Simpson, Todd and Watson. Scotland won the toss and batted on a i good wicket. The weather was dull. b Kerr and Alexander put on 56 runs before Grimmett broke the partnership. ) Alexander and McTavish continued to ! hat attractively. Rain several times interrupted play, and at 3.20 p.m. stumps ' had to be drawn i Details of the score are as follows: SCOTLAND.—First Innings. . 1 Kerr, Ibw, b Grimmett Alexander, lbw, b a'Beckett. . . . 51 .McTavish, b Grimmett . . . . 36 Todd, not out 10 ! Nicholson, not out 2 Extras . . . . . . . . 11 Total for three wickefs ..■ .. 129 ■ GAME INTERRUPTED. i RAIN AT EDINBURGH. POOR PROSPECT FOR PLAY. (Received July 38, 1.5 a.m.) \ LONDON, July 17. Rain is falling at Edinburgh and the cricket match, Australia v. Scotland, will not ho resumed before luncheon. There is little prospect of any play to-day. ' THIRD TEST MATCH. i ' APPEALS AGAINST LIGHT. MUCH SEVERE CRITICISM. (Received July 17, 11.25 p.m.) LONDOfi, July IG. A survey of every London newspaper shows first an almost unanimous admis- . sion that in the third test match at r Leeds England was saved by the weather, ! arid, secondly, that none seeks to minimise the incident of the appeal against t the light. It is admitted that nowhere in the . world are there keener judges of cricket than the Yorkshireinen, who showed unmistakably what they thought of this second aid to avert defeat. : G. G. Macartney, the former Australian batsman, says the appeal was ■ most unjustified. . G. Falkiner, the former South African > international player, in the Daily Mail, • says: "I was horrified when tho um- \ pires decided against the Australians, i who were abominably treated. This was 3 the worst incident 1 have witnessed. It , hardly bears thinking about." ; A. E. R. Gilligan says the final appeal i was astonishing, and has caused the 5 strongest language among international * critics, some of whom declare it was not . in keeping with British traditions and t sportsmanship. The News Chronicle says there was 1 not the slightest justification for tho , appeals, which burlesqued the goocl old 1 game. The paper expresses the opinion that tho onus should rest wholly on the umpire. No one should be allowed to ask I him, but he should stop a game when he ; thinks it is too dark. Numerous other critics write in similar strain. Rule 43 of the Laws of Cricket runs:— Tho umpires aie tho sole judges of fair or unfair play, or the fitness of the ground, the weather, and the light for plav; all disputes shall be determined by them, and if they disagree the actual slate ol" things shall continue.