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Timaru Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 2977, 14 June 1899, Page 2

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AUSTRALIANS v. YORKSHIRE. ' United Fress Association— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. Received June 13th, 8.50 a.m. London, June 12. The Australians have commenced a match against the following Yorkshire eleven at Bradford :— Brown,' Denton, Hirst, Haigh, Wainwright, Brown junr., Hunter. Sellara, Mitchell, Wilson, and Tunniclifle. • The weather was fine, the wicket good, and the attendance large. Trumble, Johns and Iredale are standins; out. Darling and Worrall opened the innings, bub Darling was bowled before a single was made. At luncheon nine wickets were down for 140. On resuming Jones added a single and the innings closed, Ho well, the last man, having no chance to score.

Hirst took 8 wickets for 48, Brown 2 for 60. Received Jone 13th, 10.15 p,m. Yorkshire m their first inniDga have lost 9 wickets for 229,

Brown, senr., c Jones, b Noble ... 84 • runnicliff", c Darling, b Noble ... 36 Penton, run out 30 Mitchell, c Jones, b Noble 0 Cellars, c Trump*-)-, b Noble 4 VVainright, c McLeod, b HowHl ... 7 Hirst, b Howell ... 13 Wilson, c Howell, b Noble 12 Haigh, c and b Noble 20 Brown, junr., not out 14 Hunter, not out 3 Extras 6 Twenty thousand persona were present. Owing to the fastness of the pitch the colonials failed to time the ball. Gregory was missed when he had made 6. Afterwards he played skilfully. The Yorkshire fielding was a little slack. Brown, senr., batted one and three-quarter hours, and hit 15 fours, THE SECOND TEST MATCH. The following have been chosen to represent England m the Becond test match, which commences on Thursday next :— Jackson, Jeasop, Townsend, Hayward, Tyldesley, Lilley, Mead, Rhodes, Maclaren, Fry, and Ranjitisinjhi.

Darling , 0 Worrall 7 Hill 6 Gregory 54 Noble 7 Trumper 4 21 Layer ... 0 Kelly . 10 McLeod 5 Jones ... 16 Howell. notout 0