BATSMEN FAIL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21456, 1 April 1933, Page 12

BATSMEN FAIL

JNEW ZEALAND DEBACLE; ALL OUT FOR 158 RUNS DEMPSTER'S EINE INNINGS {VISITORS' GREAT FIELDING ENGLAND ONE IPOR 127 The fir?* day's play of t/ie cricket test match between England and New Zealand, which opened at Eden Park yesterday, ended with the game in such a position as to suggest that New Zealand will have to fight hard to avoii.l defeat. New Zealand mado a poor showing in its first innings and was dismissed for 158. England replied with 127 for the loss of one wicket beforo stumps were drawn. The day was gloriously fino and the wicket and outfield were in first-class order. Conditions were all it favour of the batsmen, but only one Nsiw Zealander took advantage of them. C. S. Dempster played one of the finest innings of his career to score 33 not out. Other features of the day's play were the bowling of Bowes and the glorious batting of Hammond after tea. H. G. Vivian and D. Smith stood down from the New Zealand side, Smith acting as' twelfth man. Vivian, who injured a knee in the first test at Chri stchurch, was passed by the doctors as fit for play, but it. was decided not to tako the risk of playing him. The. attendance in the ai'ternoon was between 6000 and 7<!00. The sum of £373 was taken at the gates. Disastrous Start. Page won the toss and, as Dempster had arrived late from Wellington, WhiteJaw and Mills opened the innings. There was i disastrous start for New Zealand. Whitelaw played a maiden from Allen, who bowled to an c::thodox off field, and Bowes came on at the other end. The tall Yorkshireman takes a comparatively short run, but uses his full height in a fine swinging action, Mills '.vent to back cut his second ball, but it -,wung in late and bowled him. 0—1 —0. Worse was to follnw. Weir played back defensively to his first ball., but it also swung late, going away and taking his off Btump. o—2—o. Dempster joined Whitelaw., who opened the scoring by smashing a short-pitched ball from Allen to the square leg boundary. The next ball bumped disconcertingly and vrm\ for three lyes. Dempster opened with perfect confidence, and on several occasions placed Bowes cleverly for singles past Allen and Wyatt, who were fielding close in on the leg side. Exit Whitelaw and Kerr After bowling riv* overs for U runs, 'Allen gave way to Mitchell;. His length was erratic, but in Bowes' next over Whitelaw, who had been batting with quiet confidence, misjudged u slower ball *id was bowled off his pads. 31—3 —13 Mitchell had only three'overs before he gave way to Voce, who bowled round the wicket with three men on tho leg. Dempster was batting in his beiit form and drove a short-pitched ball to the on boundary. Mitchell took over from Bowes, who had taken three wickets for 14 in eight overs, and a leg bye brought 50 up in 58 minutes. Voce bowled over the wicket after hia. first over, but the Eden Park turf effectively precluded him from making theball bump. The scoring was slow, but only a perfectly-placed field saved Mitchell from punishment. Voce was forcing the batsmen to play hack, and off the first ball of the sixth over Kerr was out leg before. 62—4—10. Smart Singles Bun Page and Dempster ran some remarkably smart singles, and then Bowes camo on again in place of Voce. In his second ever he essayed a "bumper." Page hooked the ball hard, and it landed on the fence and bounced to the terraces, just missing a six. Brown spelled Mitchell, and his first over yielded 11 runs, seven 1o Dempster and four to Page. With a. sqinixe cut and a powerful cover drive. Page scored two more boundaries in Brown's second over. Mitchell was brought back and Pago stepped out to the first ball, He missed and was beautifully stumpel by Duckworth. 98—5—20. Joined by Badcock, Dempster brought the hundred up in 108 minuteii, and in the next oyer himself reached a chanceless 50. However, in that over, the last before lunch, Badcock was badly beaten by Bowes. 101—6—1. After lunch James joined Dumpster, but he never overcame h:,s first period of indecision. In Bowes' second over he was beaten all the way by a ball which kept low. 103—7—0. It appeared that Danning ivas the last hope, and Dempster immediately made it his policy to keep Bowes at bay and allow the runs to come off Mitchell. : Dunning shaped well, but before long he made the fatal mistake of at ten: pting to hook a ball from Bowes which w;is not short enough and was clean bowled. 123—£r-12. , Newman endeavoured to keep his wicket 'intact for Dempster md the pair added 26 before Newman was yorkisd bv Voce. 14!)-9-8. The end camo when Freeman was run out shortly afterwards. 158—10—1. England's Inningn Sntcliffe and Wyatb opened England's innings, just before three o'clock to the bowling of Badcock and Dunning and th<3 crowd settled down to see master bausmen in action. .Dunning's leg theory was not successful and Newman came on. In his first over there were two no-balls and 14 runs were scored. Newman's next over was a maiden. Sutcliffo had been .scoring slowly, but seemed to be set for the afternoon. Freeman sent him down the most arrant of long-hops and there was a gasp of surprise when the famous batsman played forward and gave Weir, at cover, a simple catch. 56—1—24. Hammond joined Wyatt find the tea adjournment was taken witii the score at 71. After tea both batsmen took a few overs to sight the ball and then started to take toll of the bovrling. Wyatt reached 50 in 99 minutes and at 5.10 p.m. .Wyatt' appealed against the light. Tho sun was low and shining round the corner of tho pavilion. The umpires upheld tho appeal,and stumps were drawin. Scores: — NEW ZEALAND.-First Inningn P. E. Whitelaw, b Bowes ..- •.-, 1? •T. E. Mills, b Bowes . . * H .. a ... „ 6 <l. L. Weir, b Bowes . . .• ... ~, ..., 0 C. S: Dempster, not out . . . . .... 83 J. L. Kerr, ibw, b Voce 10 M. L. Page, st Duckworth, b Mitchell 20 F. T. Badcock, b Bowes 1 K. G. James, b Bowes .. .. .... 0 •1. A. Dunning, b Bowes ..- ~ -.-, 12 J. Newman, b Voce . . .■ •„■ •.-« .. 5 D. F. Freeman, run out ...... 1 Extras A . . . . *.. .... . K „.. 14 Total , a s . ~ .... ..., ..... ... ]S S Bowling C). M. 8,. W. Allen -.-, .... j,... 5 2 11 0 Bowes .■ i-n .... :19 5 74 5 Mitchell -,..- v . ;|8 1 49 1 Voce ... ~, „,. 10 3 20 2 Brown .. ... , < 2 0 19 0 .aammond 3 0 11 0 ENGLAND.—First Innings H. Sutcliffe,_ c Weir, b Freeman ■, , 24 K. ]i,. S. Wyatt, not out . . .. .. 55 tfV. B. Hammond, not out . . .. " 4] Extras ... c ' Total for one wicket al g a B . 127