AUSTRALIANS’ TOUR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18316, 5 August 1921, Page 5

AUSTRALIANS’ TOUR

LANCASHIRE’S POOR STAND

M‘DONALD’B FINE AVERAGE VISITORS OPEN PROMISINGLY. Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 3. There was rain overnight and during the morning, and the ground was sloppy at the start of the return match between the Australians and Lancashire at Liverpool. Play was delayed till 1.30 p.m. Armstrong won the toss and sent Lancashire to the wickets. The weather was then sunny and breezy. The attendance was 5000. Gregory, Mailey, Oldlield, and Ryder were omitted from Australia’s side. Makepeace and Hallows opened to. M’Uonald and Armstrong, the ball cutting through the turf. The batsmen were carefuf, and scoring was slow. With 26 bn the board Makepeace lost his wicket, getting his log before to M‘Donald. Tyldesley and Barnes fell to the same bowler after an addition of six runs. At the luncheon adjournment the score was 32 for three wickets. On resuming Lloyd immediately went out without scoring. Hallows’s end came when ho was 37, being caught and bowled by M’Donald. He played a useful but somewhat lucky innings. When 50 he sent an easy return to M’Donald, who held it, but in tossing it up he threw the ball to the ground. Five for 78. Hallows and Kenyon’s partnership was the only bright patch in the innings. They put on 42. Kenyon played a lively game, hitting 19 in one over. Armstrong’s bowling had no terrors for the batsmen, and he retired after bowling nine overs. Pellew gave Kenyon a life in the longfield just before he spooned Macartney into Armstrong’s bands. The balance of the wickets went cheaply. Boddington pottered for 27 minutes for a single. Armstrong had dropped an easy catch before he scored. Alarriott was vigorous while he lasted, but was missed on the boundary. The seventh wicket fell at 81, and the ninth at 87. The innings lasted 115 minutes. Collins and Bardaley, the Australian opening batsmen, scored freely on the legside off Parkin and Cook. At 37. Taylor, left-hand slow, relieved Cook, and Mar"riott went on vice Parkin. At 70 Collins was caught at mid-off. Macartney delighted tne crowd with his daring late cuts after the ball had passed the wicket. Lancashire’s total was passed in a little over an hour. /The pait’ were set when time was called.

M’Donald, with his last wicket to-day, topped his 100 wickets for the tour. Mr Smith, the manager, states that M’Donald has not reported his acceptance of the professional position with the Nelson Club.

Following are the scores: — Lancashire.—First Innings. Makepeace, Ibw, b M’Donald 9 Hallows, o and h M‘Donald 3V Tyldesley, b M'Donald 2 Barnes, b M'Donald 0 Lloyd, b M‘Donald 0 Kenyon, c Armstrong, b Macartney ... 24 Boddington, b M‘Donald 1 Taylor, b M'Donald 3 Parkin, c Collins, b M'Donald 4 Cooke, not out 0 Marriott, o Carter, b Macartney 13 Extras ( . * ’ Total _ Bowling Analysis.—M'Donald, eight wickete for 63; Macartney, two for 12; Armstrong, none for 18. Australia. —First Innings. Collins, o Barnes, b Taylor 27 Bardsley, not out 69 Macartney, not out 30 Extras - ‘ One wicket for 123 j ALL ENGLAND XI. The following will comprise All England XI against the Australians at Eastbourne on August 27: A. C. MacLaren (Captain). M. Falconer (Norfolk). P. R. Johnson. J. C. White. G. E. C. Wood. G. Ashton. H. Ashton. C. T. Ashton. A. P. F. Chapman. C. S. Marriott. C. H. Gibson. -A. and N.Z. Cable.

The Lancashire innings provided M'Donald with one of his greatest bowling triumphs of the season, and incidentally carried his total of wickets for the tour to 102. What an English paper has described as his “smoky sizzle from the pitch” must have been very advantageously employed. Mailey and Gregory, who are not playing in this mafech, have taken 100 and 99 wickets respectively. iHe wicket was, of course, unfavourable to the batsmen when Armstrong, winning the toss, sent Lancashire in to bat. But it cannot have improved so much during the two hours occupied by the Lancashire innings as to account for the difference in the rate of run-getting shown by the county batsmen in their distinctly feeble display and t’-'t shown by the Australians when they went in.' The liveliness with which Collins, Bardsley, and Macartney got runs is not, however, to be attributed to the weakness of. the Lancastrians’ bowling. The team included Parkin, who has been included in three English test teams for his bowling; Marriott, the Cambridge University man, whose bowling led to his being selected as one of the 14 plpyers from whom the English team for the last test match was finally selected; Cooke, who took-150 wickets for Lancashire last year at a cost of under 15 runs apiece; and Taylor, a left-handed slow bowler,' who has a good command of pitch, gets a lot of spin on the ball, and has a rather deceptive" flight, and who performed remarkably well in a recent match against Middlesex. James Tyldesley, the county’s fast bowler, is evidently not playing in this match.