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Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1924, Page 5

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80UTH AFRICA V. ENGLAND. SOUTH AFRICAN INNINGS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Received July 2, 5.5 p.m. London, July 1. England won the second test match against the South Africans by an innings and 18 runs. Details of the scores are:— ENGLAND. First innings (declared) 531 SOUTH AFRICA. First innings 273 Second Innings. Deane, c Sutcliffe, b Hearne 24 Commallle l.b.w, b Tyldesley Noursc, 1.b.w., b Gilligan H Susskind, 1.b.w., b Tyldesley 53 Taylor, b Gilligan 8 Catterall, c Gilligan, b Tyldesley 45 Blanckcnberg, c Hobbs, D Tyldesley 15 Faulkner, run out 12 Pegler, b Tate 8 Parker, b Tate 0 Ward, not out 3 Extras >... ........... 24 Total •••*.-• »• •• • »• • ••_•• 212 Bowling analysis—Gilligan took two wickets for 54 runs; Tate, two for 43; Tyldesley, three for 50; Fender, one for 25; Hearne, one for 35; Woolley, none for 9. The wicket was hard and the weather brilliant. Tate and Gilligan opened the bowling to Doane and Commallle. The former was caught at deep square-leg. The half century appeared in 82 minutes. Five bowling changes were made in the course of 21 runs. The hundred took 161 minutes. Susskind batted two and a half hours. Two hundred appeared In 282 minutes. LESSONS OF THE TOUR. ENGLISH BOWLING WEAK. NO EXCUSE FOR BATSMEN. Received July 2, 5.5 p.m. London, July 1. There were periods during the African innings when there were prospects of their saving the game by doggedness. The earlier batsmen sustained the hope till before tea, when Catterall, who had been playing with sound restraint for nearly two hours, attempted :o drive Tyldesley but "skied” the ball and was caught. Defeat was assured soon after the resumption when Faulkner was run out. The innings had lasted 327 minutes. The Afrirans took longer to mako 200 than did Hobos to make 211 off his own bat. Tyldesley'* bowling was the visitors’ bugbear. It looked simple, but it was hard to got away. He bowled 18 maidens In 36 overs. Tyldesley and Hearne bowled continuously. At no stage did the bowling have any Sting, and there was no excuse for the batting failure. There were no fewer than fifteen appeals for leg before, Tyldesley being responsible for nine. Blanckenberg virtually sacrificed his wicker.

The lesson of the tour to date Is that rhe Africans’ Irattlng has been ruined by matting bowling. The country must have turf wickets if it desires to rival England and Australia. By a coincidence the Africans were beaten by exactly ihe same margin as In the Birmingham test.