EIGHT DOWN FOR 126

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 591, 18 February 1929, Page 13

EIGHT DOWN FOR 126

ENGLAND PLAYS N.S.W. AT SYDNEY TREACHEROUS WICKET (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) SYDNEY, Sunday. The cricket match. New South M ales v. England, was commenced on the Sydney cricket ground yesterday afternoon. The two captains inspected the wicket at 10 a.m. and decided to make another examination at 2 p.m. They then fixed 2.45 p.m. for the start, out at that time many of the Englishmen had not arrived on the ground and the commencement was delayed for 10 minutes. This caused unfavourable comment. There were 15,500 spectators, and the i takings totalled £96S. Changes were made in the original English side, Sutcliffe and White replacing Hendren and Larwood. Chapman won the toss and sent New South Wales in to bat on a treacherous wicket. Ames had not arrived when play was begun, and Freeman kept wicket, Hendren fielding as substitute. Tate and White opened the bowling to Jackson and Fairfax. After Jackson had made five he tried to turn one from : Tate to leg. was struck on his pad and was out leg before wicket. Andrews had made only two when he hit a ball back hard and low to White, who took a fine catch. The wicket was very bumpy and the batsmen frequently had to pat down patches. Kippax shaped nicely for 17. Then he whipped one from Geary hard to the on and Tate, close in at forward square leg, took a great catch. Bradman was troubled by the pitch. He swung a ball from White to leg, but mistimed and the ball went high and gave Tyldesley an easy catch. The Bowral colt had made Id. All this time Fairfax was playing very soundly and using his feet nicely. Marks, a promising left-handed colt, scored 17 and then was clean-bowled by Freeman. McCabe found the pitch too troublesome. He had scored 11 when Freeman bowled him. The century went up after 145 minutes’ butting. Fairfax’s innings ended when he had made 40. He lifted one from Tate to deep mid-off and Tyldesley moved in and took a neat catch. Fairfax had been batting 157 minutes-?. He watched the ball closely and selected tho right one to hit. He showed that he is capable of surmounting the difficulties of a sticky wicket. Hooker gave little trouble. Then Oldfield and Morris played out time. The bowling was good. White sent down 23 overs and took three wickets for 48. v Details: NEW SOUTH WALES First Innings JACKSON, lbw, b Tate 5 FAIRFAX, c Tyldesley, b Tato .... 40 ANDREWS, c and b White 2 KIPPAX, c Tate, b Geary .. .. .. 17 BRADMAN, c Tyldesley, b White . . 15 MARKS b Freeman 17 McCABE, b Freeman 11 OLDFIELD, not out 3 HOOKER, lbw, b White 3 MORRIS, not out 4 Extras 9 Eight wickets for 126 PLAY DELAYED RAIN AFFECTS WICKET Reed. 2.15 p.m. SYDNEY, To-day. Overnight rain affected the wicket. The captains decided to inspect it again at 1 o’clock.