AN EASY VICTORY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17249, 3 May 1930, Page 5

AN EASY VICTORY

AUSTRALIANS’. FIRST GAME WORCESTER OUT TOR 196 GRIMMETT’S EFFECTIVE BOWLING (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) LONDON, May 2. Concluding the match in beautiful weather on a good wicket, the Australian cricketers won the first match of their tour by an innings and 165 runs. An hour and a quarter sufficed to dismiss the remaining Worcester batsmen. Grimmett was the destroying angel. He tied all the batsmen up l and finished with fine figures. The other Australian bowlers were innocuous, although Fairfax made the ball get up. The Root-Waiter partnership was worth 84 runs, but when Grimmett was called on lie immediately bowled Root and the others failed to last long. The Worcester innings occupied 240 minutes. Grimmett’s bowling lias to depend on the fielding, otherwise the Australian attack might be a one-man show. ILornibrook is improving, but Wall and a’Beckett were never impressive, and failed to get a wicket. Details:— AUSTRALIA First Innings (decld. for 8 wckts.) 492 WORCESTERSHIRE First Innings ... ... ... ... 131 —Second Innings — Jackson, hit wicket, b Hornihrook 10 Wright, run out ... ... ... 18 Nicliol, e Hornihrook, b Grimmett 1 Gibbons, b Hornihrook ... ... 22 Brook, 1) Grimmett 0 Fox, e Oldfield, b Grimmett ... 28 Walters, e and b Grimmett ... ... 44 Root, b Grimmett 48 Styles, llnv., b Hornihrook 1 Jackson, not out ... 4 Gilbert (absent ill) 0 Extras 20 Total 196 Bowling: Wall, none for 22; Fairfax, none for 45; Grimmett, five for 46; Hornihrook, three for 30; a’Beckett, none for 25; McCabe, none for 8. COUNTY GAMES START HOBBS’ TWO CENTURIES (Received May 3, .10 a.m.) LONDON, May 2. In tlio first round of the county cricket contests Jack Hobbs made a century in each innings. Glamorgan, in the first innings, scored 474, Bates contributing 168 and Hills 100. In the second they made 205, Turnbull scoring 61; Allom took four for 50. Surrey’s first innings yielded 333, Hobbs making 1.37. Mercer took five for 61. The second innings produced 190 for two wickets, Hobbs, not out, making 111. Glamorgan won on the first innings. Middlesex in the first, innings scored .196, Lee making 85. Geary took four for 53. In the second they made 349 for five and declared, Lee scoring 95 and Homlren, not out, 101. Leicester in the first innings made 280, Robins tqking five for 81. The second innings produced 127 for five wickets. Leicester won on the first innings.