FIRST CRICKET TEST
VICTORIA LEAD N.Z. BY HO RUNS WiGBFULL PLAYS SOLIBLY FOR A CENTURY BRIGHT 9ISPLAYS BY MILLAR ANB RANSFIRD M'BEATH AND DICKINSON BOWL WELL The cricketers in the first test were again greeted . with fine weather on Saturday, although the rays of the sfin were tempered by a chill breeze fpom the south. The wicket was in good order, and there was an attendance of about 8000. Victoria were. at the wickets the whole of the day, and stumps were drawn when the last wicket fell for 336. Woodfull was unbeaten with no to his credit. Millar made 56, Ransford 34, Ellis 28, and Willis 27. Mcßeath and Dickinson bore the bruht of the New Zealand attack, and acquitted themselves splendidly. The New Zealand fielding was patchy—at times brilliant and at times poor.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12094, 23 March 1925, Page 9
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135FIRST CRICKET TEST New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12094, 23 March 1925, Page 9
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