CRICKET.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 77, 13 November 1911, Page 6

CRICKET.

ENGLAND v. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ENGLISHMEN’S BIG SCORE. Adelaide, November 12. The match between the English team and the South . Australians was resumed an glorious weather, the , attendance being nearly five thousand. The .wicket was in perfect order. Warner (112) and Foster (34) faced the bowling of Whitty and Crawford. Runs came at the rate of one per minute. Foster began • quietly, cut when he settled down he scored rapidly with charming wrist strokes, scoring at the rate of '.O an Lour. Rees and Stirling were put b.i to bond, and the rate of scoxing increased. ‘ Four hundred \was up for 336 minutes. When in the eighties Foster was missed three times—at 80 off a skier behind the wicketkeeper, which Rees misjudged; at 82 a long one by Mayne; and at 87 at square leg by Down. Warner got 152 ui iij minutes. Later lie was bowled. lie played -extremely sound and watchful cricket, and hit twelve fours. Five Joi 435. '

foster, when at 99, should ha.c been run out. He got his century as the result, of 107 minutes’ pi .y Crawford and Whitty then resuimu bowling. Foster again played in a dashing wav. When lie was 01 he skied a ball from Whitty at mil-on, but Crawford lost, it in the sun. Douglas was bowled at 495, after 50 minutes at the wickets. At 508 Foster was bowled. He hit with' great wrist power, and made IS fours, but was lucky. He batted 162 minutes.

, At 525 Woolley was smartly caught after -securing seven runs. iLiiier yine was caught at pour:. Strudwick hit lively, but was caught at midßtff. The innings lasted 163 minutes. ( .The feature of the Englishmen’s innings in the match against South Australia, played on the Adelaide Oval, was the line hatting of Warner and Foster.. Warner, after the tea adjournment, ,icached, iiis century, and Foster was piling up runs at the rate of one per minute. Following are the scores:— ENGLISHMEN.—First Innings. Hobbs, c Kirkwood, b Rees ... 3G Rhodes, b Whitty 7 Gunn, c Backman. b Whitty ... 106 Mead, st, Webster, b Rees ... 20 Warner, b Backman 151 Foster, b Crawford, 158 Douglas, c and b Crawford ... 10 Woolley, c Stirling, b Backman 15 Vine, c Mayne, b Backman ... 5 Barnes, not out ... ... ... 16 Strudwick, c Whitty, b Stirling 20 Extras ... ... ... 19

Total ... ... ... ... 563 Bowling Analysis.—Whitty, two for 116 • Crawford, two for 132; Rees, two for 154; Stiriig, one for 66; Backman, three Tor 53 ; Kirkwood, none for 15; Down, none for 5; Mayne, none for 3. SOUTH AUSTRALIA—First Innings. Mayne, b Foster 0 Stirling, run out ... 1 Clem Hill, not out 49 S. Hill, b Barnes ... ... ... 9 Crawford, run out 14 Down, not out 4 Total for four wickets ... 85 Mayne and Stirling began the local innings, Foster and Barnes bowling. With only two run up Stirling was run o\it through a smart return from Hobbs. Foster bowled Mayne one run later with a swerver. Barnes bowled the .younger Hill at 21, and Crawford next. The scoring was then quiet. In the forties Douglas replaced Foster, the first fifty occupied an hour. Then the runs came steadily. Vine relieved Barnes at 75, and with the score unaltered Crawford was run out while trying to steal a run. Hill was batting soundly, and with Down, played out time.