INTERESTING CRICKET
By Telegraph—Press Association.
COMMENTS ON THE PLAY ALLEN'S ALL ROUND EXCELLENCE. VIVIAN AND PAGE'S PARTNERSHIP. BOWLERS PLAYED CONFIDENTLY.
Wellington, March 25. The 3000 spectators who watched the second day's play between the touring M.C.C. team and New Zealand to-day enjoyed interesting cricket. A feature of England's first innings, which closed at 12.40 for a total of 427, was a breezy knock for 88 by Allen. The wicket was faster than yesterday, and the New Zealanders, who started their innings at 12.55 p.m., found difficulty in playing Allen's fast deliveries. At one stage Allen had three wickets for nir : runs and finished up with three for 30. This fine bowling performance, after his 88 with the bat, demonstrated what a fine all round player the English captain is. Things did not look very good for New Zealand when three wickets were down for 40 runs, but the captain, Page, and the vice-captain, Vivian, then stayed together and put on 146 for the fourth wicket. Both played the English bowlers with eonfidence and scored freely from Allen, Voce, Hammond and Verity. Up to English Slandard. Page reached 50 in 124 minutes and Vivian ran to 88 in 149 minutes, and their displaya were up to anything the Englishmen had given. Allen and Voce bowled particularly well for England. Allen, though not bowling at his top pace, worked up a good turn of speed. He was a yard
faster than Cowie. Voce was dangerous through the 15.2 overs he bowled. His ability to make the ball lift had all the batsmen, with the exception of Vivian and Page, in trouble, and he at last dismissed both these batsmen,, his tally being three for 40. hammond bowled very steadily in sending down 13 overs for 22 runs, Worthington, Sims and Verity did not trouble the New Zealand batsmen. Except for free hitting by Allen, the New Zealand bowlers kept a good length and gave little away during the morning's play. Cowie, Roberts, Vivian and Page secured two wickets apiece and Dunning and Weir one each. ■
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1937, Page 9
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