SLOW BATTING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21358, 6 December 1932, Page 9

SLOW BATTING

FIRST TEST MATCH ENGLAND SIX FOR 479 SUTCLIFFE MAKES 191 A RECORD PARTNERSHIP lIOME BOWLING IMPROVES By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received December 5, 10.45 p.m.) SYDNEY. Dec. 5 The first cricket test between England and Australia was continued to-day in cool, dull weather. Light rain fell during the night, but there was not enough to affect the wicket. When stumps were drawn on Saturday England had scored 252 for' one wicket, Sutcliffe (116) and Hammond (87) being not out. Continuing to-day, England scored only 227 more runs, and lost five wickets. At slumps England's total was 479 for six wickets. Australia in its first innings made 360. The attendance was 27,938, and the gate takings amounted to £2482. Grimmett, Australia's slow bowler, strained his right side howling on Saturday. He had massage treatment during the week-end. O'Reilly and Grimmett bore the brunt of the attack during ■ the period before lunch. Both bowled accurately, and as a result Hammond and Sutcliffe added only 20 in the first half-hour. O'Reilly sent down five successive maidens. At one stage of the morning his figures were: —15 overs, 10 maidens, 13 runs. After Hammond and Sutcliffe had established a new second-.wicket partnership record for England the former skied a ball into the covers. He had batted for 192 minutes, and altogether gave a very forceful display. He hit 16 fours. Batsmen Uneasy Sutcliffe and Pataudi spent some uneasy moments facing Grimmett and O'Reilly, but managed to keep their wickets intact. Si.\ty-four runs were scored in 90 minutes before lunch.

Again after tho adjournment Grimmctt bad Sutcliffe and Pataudi missing badly. Both batsmen were also snicking Wall dangerously near the slips and wicketkeeper. Sutcliffe survived several leg-before appeals by O'Reilly, and the pair went along slowly, waiting for loose balls to score from. Australia's total was passed with eight wickets in hand. On reaching 177 Sutcliffe had passed his previous highest, score against Australia. Tho score-board then read 400 for two wickets. Sutcliffe had the unique honour of being associated in three century partnerships in his innings. Palaudi took 111 minutes to reach 50. He had been puzzled by tho slow bowlers many times. Nevertheless, his glances and cuts were executed with delightful grace. At the tea adjournment he and Sutcliffe were playing very dreary cricket, and the crowd cheered ironically every stroke. Fine rain was falling on the resumption and the .ight was failing. Sensational Bowling

Wall, who had bowled, impressively today, created a sensation in his second over after tho adjournment, getting Sutcliffe and Leyland with successive balls. Sutcliffe occupied the crease for 456 minutes lie hit 15 fours, but only one to-day. lie batted very stodgily to-day and was never quite Comfortable.

Jardino made a shaky start, playing several uppish shots through the slips olf Wall. Pataudi remained on 68 for 25 minutes, lie had taken 210 minutes to mako 70. Oldfield held a very clever catch to dismiss Jardine. Verity was out in the last over of the day. Tho bowling was a great improvement on that of Saturday, while tho fielding was up to international standard. Oldfield was again brilliant. Details of the scores are:— AUSTRALIA First Innings 360 ENGLAND.—First Innings If. Sutcliffe, Ibw, b Wall 194 R. E. S. Wyatt, lbw, b Grimmctt . . 38 W. R. Hammond, o Grimmctt, b Nagol • 112 Nawab of Pataudi, not out, ... 80 M. Leyland, c Oldfield, b Wall . . (I I). R. Jardine, c Oldfield, b McCabe . 27 11. Verity, lbw, b Wall 2 Extras 26 Total for six wickets 479 Fall of wickets. —One for 112, two for 300, three for 423, four for .423, five for 470, six for 479. Bowling.—Grimmctt took one wicket for 109, McCabe ono for 42, Nagel one for 103, O'Reilly none for 107, Wall three for 89, Kippax none for 3.

BETTER BOWLING WALL'S FINE PERFORMANCE RECORD OF LONG STANDING The slow batting of England yesterday can bo judged from the fact that only 227 runs were scored in the'day's play. This performance comes as a surprise after the fine start of 252 for one wicket. Only 56 runs were added for the last three wickets. England is now 119 runs to the good with four wickets in hand. The four batsmen still to go in are Ames, Allen, Larwood and Voce. Ames

is a fine batsman and in the last match, against New South Wales, made 90.' Larwood also lias good scores to his credit in big cricket and on the present tour compiled 81 against South Australia. Allen made 48 against the combined team in the second match, but Voce is unlikely to prove, very troublesome. Providing the Australian attack is of the standard it was yesterday the Englishmen are likely to find runs hard to make and there, is a possibility of the team being dismissed under a lower score than was generally anticipated. The standard of the bowling can be judged on the slow scoring of Sutcliffe and the Nawab of Pataudi. Grimmett and O'Reilly had the batsmen in difficulty, which shows that even the greatest English batsmen can be still troubled by this type of attack. Of the 78 runs added by Sutcliffe yesterday he hit only one four and was at the wickets altogether for seven hours and sixteen minutes in making 194. The Nawab of Pataudi batted three and alialf hours for 70 runs, but st:ll presents a difficult problem for the bowlers as he is unbeaten with 80 to his credit. The bowling honours for Australia go to Wall, the fast South Australian trundlcr, whose performance in taking three wickets for 89 was a very fine one. The second-wicket partnership between Sutcliffe and Hammond, which added 183 runs, has broken a record of nearly 40 years' standing. The previous record was made by W. Guiin and A. Shrewsbury at Lord's in 1893. this partnership yielding 152 runs. The record second-wicket partnership for Australia against England stands to the credit of W. M. Woodfull and O. G. Macartney, who compiled 235 runs at Leeds in 1926. Prior to this match Sutcliffe's highest score against Australia was 176 at -Melbourne in 1924-25. In the second innings of this test he made 127. POSITION OF 31AI LEY NO WISH TO PLAY NOT ELIGIBLE FOR MATCHES SYDNEY, Dec. 5 Referring to the suggestion that he should play in the tests, the former Australian representative, A. A. Mai ley, stated: "I have no wish to play. Even if 1 had, I would not be eligible."