LOW SCORING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 16

LOW SCORING

GLOUCESTERSHIRE MATCH AUSTRALIA OUT FOR 164 SINFIELD’S FINE AVERAGE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON. June 3. (Received June 4, at 1.30 a.m.) The weather was sunny when the match. Australia v. Gloucester, was resumed this morning. O’Reilly and Ward were dismissed by successive balls from Sinfield, and then Tyler finished off the Australian innings. Sinfield was applauded for the most outstanding figures against Australia so far on the tour Gloucester commenced the second innings at 11.55 on a tricky wicket. Wickets fell rapidly, Allen again being the only batsman not scared by the spin bowlers. He had a life when six, but hung on until 42 Finally he skied a ball from O’Reilly, and the catch was accepted by McCabe at forward square-leg. At the luncheon adjournment Gloucester had lost eight wickets for 96.

Previous Day’s Play Gloucestershire, on winning the toss yesterday, decided to bat, but wickets fell cheaply. , Allen was troubled by the spinndrs, and was nearly an hour in making 15 runs. Gloucester’s score at lunch was two for 61, but upon resumption the wicket was difficult, and O’Reilly reaped a harvest. He took five wickets for runs off four overs. After lunch eight Gloucester wickets fell in half an hour for 17 runs. The batsmen were so nervous that they scarcely attempted to play the ball. The wicket, which had been affected by rain, could not fully account for their pitiful display. Australia opened the first innings at 2.55. The batting of Brown and Badcock was dull, but Gloucester had nobody to exploit the vice in the wicket. After a correct and restrained hour’s batting Brown was caught at fine leg. "McCabe was beaten in playing a purely defensive stroke. Badcock and Hassett played defensively, waiting to score off loose balls. Upon their dismissal the wickets fell quickly, but Ward stonewalled while O’Reilly hit gallantly until stumps. Sinfield, a slow bowler, was very accurate, and worried all the batsmen, who were unable to penetrate his leg side field. Details: — GLOUCESTERSHIRE First Innings Barnett, Ibw, b O’Reilly .. .. 15 Emmett, b Fleetwood-Smith .. 0 Allen, Ibw, b O’Reilly .. .. 41 Lyon, b O’Reilly 5 Crapp, c Fleetwood-Smith, b O’Reilly _ .. .. 0 Neale, b Fleetwood-Smith .. 0 Packer, c Waite, b O’Reilly .. 0 Sinfield, Ibw, b FleetwoodSmith . . . 0 Wilson, not out .. .. .. • • 3 Tyler, st Barnett, b O’Reilly ~ 0 Cranfield, run out 3 Extras 11 Total 78 Bowling.—McCormick, none for 10; Waite, none for 3; O’Reilly, six for 22; Fleetwood-Smith, three for 32. Second Innings Barnett, c Fleetwood-Smith, b McCormick 1 B. O. Allen, c McCabe, b O’Reilly 42 Emmett, Ibw, b Fleetwood-Smith 6 Lyon, b Fleetwood-Smith .. . • 4 Crapp, st Barnett, b O’Reilly .. 4 Neale, c Hassett, b O’Reilly .. 20 Parker, b Fleetwood-Smith .. 0 Sinfield, not out ? Wilson, b Fleetwood-Smith .. 2 Cranfield, not out 2 Extras 8 Total for eight wickets 96 AUSTRALIA First Innings Brown, c Crapp, b Sinfield .. 18 Badcock, c Parker, b Sinfield .. 51 McCabe, b Sinfield 0 Hassett, c Allen, b Sinfield .. 29 Chipperfield, b Cranfield .. 9 Waite, c Neale, b Sinfield .. 6 Barnett, c Emmett, b Sinfield .. 8 O’Reilly, c Barnett, b Sinfield .. 23 Ward, c Lyon, b Sinfield .. .. 1 Fleetwood-Smith, b Tyler .. 3 McCormick, not out 0 Extras 16 Total 164 Bowling.—Barnett, none for 9; Lyon, none for 4; Sinfield, eight for 65; Tyler, one for 20; Cranefield. one for 50. TEST TRIAL MATCH HAMMOND BATS SOUNDLY LONDON, June 3. (Received June 4, at 1.30 a.m.) In fine weather and on a drying wicket, the first test trial was resumed at Lord’s this morning, At the luncheon adjournment England had lost seven wickets for 320 runs. Hammond, who was most cautious, completed his 1000 runs for the season. At the close of play yesterday the position was; The Rest. 298: England 204 for four wickets. The newspaper critics were surprised at the good score by the Rest. They do not think, however, that the side should have made so many runs, indicating that the English attack would not be good enough against Australia. Although Edrich and Hutton put on 113 for England’s first wicket, their batting was painfully slow. Details:—

THE REST First Innings Fishlock, c Hutton, b Fames . 2 Wilcox, c Ames, b Verity 20 Paynter, c Edrich, b Verity . 79 Yardley, c Ames, b Fames .. 31 Dollery, c Hutton, b Brown .. 25 Langridge. c Compton, b Hammond 14 Nichols. Ibw, b Smith .. .. 32 Pope, not out 47 Farrimond, b Verity .. 16 Wright, b Verity 7 Pollard, c Verity, b Fames .. 4 Extras 21 Total . .... .298 (Bowling analysis not given.) ENGLAND First Innings Edrich, c Wilcox, b Wright ~ 80 Hutton, c Wilcox, b Wright .. 40 Wyatt, c Pollard, b Pope . 24 Hammond, not out .. . ..' 91 Compton, c Farrimond, b Pope 14 Hardstaff, b Pollard ~ .. .. 35 Ames, b Pollard 0 Brown, b Pollard 0 Verity, not out . .. .. . 14 Extras 22 Total for seven wickets 320