THE SECOND TEST MATCH.

Otago Witness, Issue 2600, 13 January 1904, Page 53

THE SECOND TEST MATCH.

A WIN FOR ENGLAND. MELBOURNE, January 5. Showers fell all night and this morning. At 12.10 the wicket on being inspected was found to be in a terribl© state. It was impossible to stand on it* boing a partial swamp. The sun and wind became strong at 1 p.m. The ground curator s'atcd that the pitch was likely to dry very quickly, and that it would be po:sibl© to play. Trumper not only saved the lollow-ora yesterday by his brilliant innings on a gluepot wicket, but got his runs at such a great speed that they possess many tim« 3 their paper value. Probably very f^w innings of equal merit are on record for a sticky wicket. The excitement during his performance will not be forgotten for y&ar-. The weather was wretched. Showers foil all night and morning until noon, and so soddened the wicket that it was a quagmire. Fortunately at noon the sun broke through the dens© clouds and dried the pitch sxifnciently to allow a start to be made with the conclusion of the second test match at 3.10 p.m. Warner superintended rolling the wicket, or rather mud, which caked on tho roller. A considerable quantity of snwdu?t was provided for bowlers and batsman. Th& attendance numbered close on 10,000 during the afternoon. With five wickets down for 76, the Englishmen resumed their second innings. Trumbl©, bowling with the wind, secured Knight's dismissal with his second ball, leg before. After Tyldesley had failed to score off Howell's over, Trumble stuck up Lilley, who was stumped by Kelly. Tho first run of the day was a leg bye.. Tyldesley then opened out, but the outfield was very dead. The Lancashire man scored repeatedly off both bowlers, but eventually he foil to a very easy catch by Tiumble* with tho score at 30. He had played a great innings, and hit two S's and six 4's in 78 rans. The others w&r© quickly disposed of, the innings closing tor 103. Tho Australian ficldir-g -naj superb. .Requiting 297 urns to win, ciai->iralia started the-ir second iiiuingi smarclv. Duff v. as easily caught in the slips. Hill ecored rapidly off Rhodes, mo'ting 10 in one over, but nai mi=eed whan ho had mado 8. He afterwards profited by the. let-off, ai bo hit two 4's and one 2 off tuccD^sivo balls from Rh(-de=. With th& "core at 40 B aund badly missed T/jturnDer off Hirst. Th&n

Relf took ono over to allow Hirst and Rhodes to change ends, which proveel effective, as Hill hit Phodes to lcmg-on, and was easily hold by Rolf. Noble was the only other batsman to trouble the ICnglishmen. Ho 31, though he was badly missed by Tyklesley at long-on when he had scored 5. At one stage ono \iicket was down for 51. Then five wickets were down for 86, a:id eventually the whole side was out for 111, and England won the second test match by 186 runs. Tho bowlmg of Rhodes was terribly destructive. If tho Englishmen had taken all the chances offered he would have had a marvellous analy-K Tyldesiey and Rhodes by their batlmg and bowling respectively won the match. The following are the scores : — England.— First Innings. Warner, c Duft, b Tumble . 58 Hayward, c Gregory, b Hopkins . 58 Foster, retired . . 43 Braund, c Howe!l, b Trumble . 20 Knight, b Howell . .. . , , 2 Hirst, c -Noble, b Howell -, 7 Rhodes, lbw, b Trumble . ', 2 Tyldesley, c Trumble, b Howell 97 Lillev, c fiowell, b Tiumble fl 4 Fielder, b HoweU . ' . 1 Relf,^ not out /, . , _ 3 Extras .'"... . 4 Total 315 Bowling Analysis.— Trumble, 4 wickets for 107 runs.; Noble, none for 4; Saunders, none for 60 ; Armstrong, none for 43 ; Trumper, none far 4; Howell, 4 for 43; Hopkins, 1 for 50. Hopkins bowled one wide. Second Innings. Warner, c Tiumper, b Saunders .. 8 Hayward, c Trumper, b Tiumble 0 Tyldealey, c Trumblp, b Howell . 62 Braund, b Saunders ... ._, 3 Hirst, c Gregory, b Howell -> -„ 4 Rhodes, lbw, b Irumblo *„ 7 9 Knight, lbw, b Trumble ■ ~% , O Lilley, st iially, b Truinble £-• '' , 0 Fielder, c Hill, b Trumble o - d Relf, not out .. . -", 10 Extras . '-, .'•". ■ 8 Total 103 Bowling Analysis. — Trumble, 5 wickets for 34 runs; Saunders, 2 for 33; Howell, 2 for 25; Hopkins, none for 3. Austbalians.— First Innings. Trumper, c Tyldesley, b Rhodes 74 Duff, st Lilley, b Rhodes / 10 Hill, c Ehodes, b Hirst . f 5 Noble, c Strudwiek, b Rhodes , 0 Gregory, c Hirst, b Rhodes . 1 Hopkins, c Strudwiek, b Relf . 18 Trumble, c Slrudwick, b Rhodes 2 Armstrong, c Braund, b Rhodes 1 Kelly, run out ... . 8 Howell, c Fielder, b Rhodes . 0 Saunders, not out . ] 2 Extra ■•, . \ 1 Total 122 Bowling Analysis.— Rhodes took 7 wickets for 56 runs; Hirst, 1 for 33; Relf, 1 for 12; Braund, none for 20. Second Innings. Trumper. c Reft, b Rhodes . ..35 Duff, c Braund, b Rhodes . . 8 Hill, c Relf, b Rhodes 20 Gregory, c Rhodes, \> Hirst -". . . 0 Hopkins, c and b Rhodes .... 7 Trumble, c Braund, b Rhodes .. 0 Armstrong, c Hayward, b Rhodes 0 Kelly, c Lilley, b Rhodes . 7 Howell,' c Hirst, b Rhodes '. . 8 Saunders, c Fielder, h Hirst ---> 0 "Nohle, not 'but " ? ( ' 31 Total .... , . .111 Bowling Analysis.— Rhodes, 8 wickets for 68 runs; Hirst, 2 for 38; Eelf, none for 5. Test matches played, GS; won by England, 30; by Australia, 26; drawn, 12. First test match, Warner's team v. Australia, at Sydney. — England won by five wickets. England, 577 and 194 for five wickets; Australia, 285 and 485. Second test match, at Melbourne. — England won by 186 runs. England, 315 and 103; Australia, 122 and 111. The partiality of the Australian public and of a section of the press will cause all true sportsmen to rejoice- at the success of the English team. Warner had tho good fortune to win the- toss, and this enabled the team to obtain a start on a good N wicket, which practically won the match. But the loss of Foster's services was a bit of bad luck, following as it did on having to leave out Arnold, who, next to Rhodes, has proved to be in the best form with the ball. LONDON, January 6. The Times states that it appears for ihe first time for some years that English bowling is decidedly superior to Australian, which lacks variety. The Australian Eleven hare a decided tail, but the English have none.