CRICKET

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10849, 15 March 1921, Page 6

CRICKET

THE AUSTRALIANS’ TOUR WON BY SEVEN WICKETS AT CANTERBURY. NEW ZEALAND TEAM SELECTED. PER rBE 1 3S ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, March 14When the cricket match was resumed to-day it had every appearance of being drawn, b*ut to-day’s play saw the Australian bowlers at the tap of their form. an<J this, combined with rather weak batting by the Canterbury men, left the visitors' winners by seven wickets. The weather was again perfect and the attendance very good. liansford to-day treated the onlookers to a fine display of all round batting. Early in the day .Sandman beat him once, but after this lie made all the bowling look easy. Towards the close of his innings, after he had worn the edge off the bowling, he took some risks and forced the pace. It r wa-s an innings full of merit. Canterbury’s second innings was a great disappointment, coming after their' fine score of the first innings. For the most part the batsmen were beatem by bowling of a class they are not accustomed to. Better bowling, or more difficult than Ironmongers has rarely been seen at Lancaster Park. Five .of his seven victims were clean bowled, and in every case they were badly beaten. Blunt, at the start, batted in very promising 6tyle and looked like repeating his first innings performance, until he got one that swung in sharply just before it pitched and then went straight Read played the bowling well, but directly lie tried to hit he failed to get properly on to the ball and gave a soft catch. With 58 required to win the Australian© commenced after the tea adjournment with Waddy and When 40 was up Blunt took the ball from Sandman, who. in his first over, got Waddy leg before with a straight one. Sandman went on again soon afterwards, and at 48 got Lampard ]bw. When only 4 runs were required to be got Brosnahan dismissed Batcliffe by a splendid catch on the boundary off Blunt. The visitors took 40 minute® to knock up the required runs. The fallowing are the scores:— AUSTRALIA.—First Innings. Waddy, lbw, b Sandman 25 Richardson, b Sandman 17 Lampard, c Blunt, b McLachlan 60 Liddioutt, et Brunton. b Sandman ... 44 Kippax, b Sandman 5 Hansford, not out 109 Ratcliffe, run out 6 Pellew, lbw, b McLachlan 16 Forssberg, lbw, b Sandman 10 Asher, st Brunton, b Sandman 7 Ironmonger, c Patrick, b Read 20 Extras < 33 Total 356 Bowling analysis—Sandman took six wickets for 140 runs, Read one for 84, McLachlan two for 74, Blunt none for 7, Hayes none for 14. Second Innings. Waddy, lbw, b Blunt 23 Richardson, not out 22 Lampard, lbw, b Sandman 3 Liddicutt, not out * 3 Ratcliffe, o Brosnahan, b Blunt 3 Extra® 3 Total for three wickets 60 Bowling analysis—Sandman took one wicket for 22 runs. Read, none for 13, McLachlan none for 11, Blunt two for 11. CANTERBURY. First innings * 311 Second Innings. Blunt, b Ironmonger 18 Brosnahan, b Ironmonger 9 Page, lbw, b Liddicutt 0 Patrick, c Kippax, b lronfnonger 14 Reese, b Ironmonger 2 Hayes, b Liddicutt 7 Worker, not out 14 Stndman, b Ironmonger 4 Brunton, b Ironmonger b Read, c Waddy, b Ironmonger 19 Mcl -achlan, c Ironmonger, b Liddicutt 1 Extras 9 Total 103 Bowling analysis seven wickets fox* 36 runs, Richardson non© for 7, Liddicutt three for 50. THE NEW ZEALAND TEST TEAM. THREE WELLINGTON MEN. The following team ha® been picked to represent New Zealand in the first test tnatdh against the Australians at Wellington on the 26th inst.: Smith, Rountree and N. Sneddon (Auckland). Hiddlestone, Brice and Middleton (Wellton). Lacre (Wairarapa). Blunt and Sandman (Canterbury). Shepherd (Otago). Mcßeth (Southland).