FORTUNES CHANGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 25 June 1938, Page 6

FORTUNES CHANGE

SECOND CRICKET TEST

AUSTRALIANS’ STRUGGLE

FROM TRIUMPH TO DISMAY

SPIN BOWLERS FA 11

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(Reed. June 25, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 24

Commenting on the play in the second cricket test, the Australian Associated Press says that after a day of excitement and fluctuations, Australia’s triumph was converted into dismay.

They may be forced, as in the first test, to concentrate on. saving the game, especially as there is a prospect of batting a man short. The highest innings ever played by an English captain against Australia, at last revealing Hammond in his greatness on his native soil, with another demonstration of Payntcr’s remarkable big-match temperament, completely changed the outlook of the game between noon and 4 o’clock. McCormick played his part, but the spinners called on to drive home the Australian advantage failed lamentably. It was not until O’Reilly got two batsmen leg before, in the middle of the afternoon, that Australia looked like recovering command. Then Arnes, though often shaky, hung on with the seemingly infallible Hammond. The .Australian manager, Mr. Jeanes, states that Chipper-field’s finger is net fractured. A decision as to whether lie will participate further will be made after an examination to-morrow. Mr. Howard Marshall, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says that Hammond carried England from disaster lb security. With Hammond in such form, England’s chance of l regaining the Ashes will increase considerably. In the county cricket competitions, Oxford in the first innings made 412 (Eggar 98), and in the second 141. Sussex in the first scored 196 and in the second 245. Oxford won by 112 runs.