CRICKET.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 11661, 21 January 1902, Page 3

CRICKET.

THE ENGLISHMEN IN AUSTRALIATHE THIRD TEST MATCH. United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.5 p.m., January. 20ta - ADELAIDE, Januaiy 20. The cricket match was resumed in bright but sultrv weather. The attendance was 8000 persons. The wicket was excellent. Barnes was unable to play being in bed owing to a strain to his left kifee received while bowling on Saturday. Braund and Gunn resumed bowling, llie eariv plav was steady. When 92 runs appeared to Hill he was missed in the slips bv Jones off Gunn. The. next two balls gave him six but facing Braund, the left bander lifted a bail to long on and Tylstepping two feet up the sloping asohalt ot the cycling track effected a bniiiant catch. Hill was batting for two hours 42 minutes and only gave one chance. He hit twelve fours. The third wicket fell at 197. Gregory opened with a "late cut for four. "Wnen 39 Duff was missed by MacLaren at cover slip off Gunn. but the mistake was not costly as two overs later he was out leg before. He was batting for an hour and a half and hit eight lours. The fourth wicket fell at 229. In the 25 minutes prior to luncheon play was slew and only 19 runs were made." The scores at the adjournment were Gregory 30, Armstrong 7; total, 248. The same bowlers resumed after luncheon. With the total at 260 Armstrong tamely returned a ball to Gunn. Trumble joined Gregory who was scoring faster than before luncheon and reached the half century after 80 minutes' batting. The fielding" was brilliant and the batsmen found it difficult to get the ball through, especially from Gunn with his off theory. Gregory when going nicely spooned a ball to mid-on and Blvthe made an easy catch. Gregory was baiting 100 minutes without a chance. He hit ten foursSix for 288.", With one run added Gunn clean bowled Trumble. Howell and Noble tcok the score to 300 before the former was smartly caught in the slips. With oclv seven "runs added a beautiful ball from Gunn found Noble's wicket. Kelly and McLeod stayed a little while, but the irresistible Gunn bowled the latter with a bailer. 1 * Gunn to-dav gob 5 wickets for 58 rurfc. He kept a splendid length and his bowling was always difficult to play. The fielding of the Englishmen was brilliant. Lilley the wicket-keeper allowed only two bves. Rain is now threatening. The Englishmen then began their second innings. MacLaren and Hayward facing . Howell and NoVe. The captain soon got to wcik, and had put on ten before his partner scored, and kept well ahead, making an occasional four, though Howell troubled him. The first hour's play yielded 62 runs. Trumble relieved Howell, and a couple of overs later Armstrong replaced Noble. At 80 Trumble beat MacLaren with a good length ball. He was batting for 80 minutes, and his innings was chanceless. Hayward and Tyldesley played out time, the former- giving" a faultless display of batting for 100 minutes: — The full sc»res are as follows : ENGLISHMEN.—Ist Innings. MacLaren, run out 67 Hayward. xun out 90 Tyldesley, c and b Trumble 0 Jessop, c Trumper, b'Trumble 1 Lilley. Ibw, b Trumble 10 Quaife. c Kelly, b Howell 68 Braund, not out 103 Jones, run r.ut 5 Gunn. b Noble 24 Barnes c Hill, b Noble 5 Blythel c Hill, b Noble 2 Extras 13 Total 388 Bowling analysis.—Trumble 3 wickets fcr 124 runs, Noble 5 for 58, Howell 1 wicket for 82, McLeod 0 for 49, Armstrong 0 for 45. Trumper 0 for 17. AUSTRALIANS.—Ist Innings. Darling, c MacLaren, b Blvthe 1 Tfnmper. run out 65 Hill, c Tyldesley. b Braund 98 Duff. Ibw, b Braund 43 Gregory, c Blythe. b Braund 55 Armstrong, c and b Gunn 9 Trumble, b Gunn 13 Howell, c Braund, b Gunn 3 Noble, b Gunn 14 Kelly, not out 5 McLeod, b Gunn 7 Extras 8 ' ' Total 321 Bowling analysis.—Barnes 0 for 21, Blvthe 1 wicket for 54. Braund 3 wickets for 145. Gunn 5 for 76, Je=sop 0 for 19. ENGLAND.—2nd Innings. MacLaren, b Trumble 44 Hayward, not out 44 Tvldeslev, not out 4 Extras 6 ' Total for one wicket 98 Trumble took one wicket 'for 16 runs. "Mid-on," the cricket reporter of the Melbourne " Age," writing after the second test match, says :—" Up to date the batting of the Englishmen generally has strength- ' ened very frequently expressed opinion that i England" is not nearly as strong in bowling as she was years ago, and I cannot help | feeling convinced that a large proportion of the runs which were piled up in thousands [ en English cricket grounds last season must [ have been made against bowling of the mechanical or automatic order. Until the [second day of this match, Tyldesley, the champion aggregate scorer of the last English season, had done nothing out here worthy of his reputation, and Jones, Quaife, < Jessop and Gunn have given us none of those * tiisplays of heavy scoring which in England last season were common to each and all of them." " Mid-on" says he had been told to "wait till you see Jessop going," and he had waited," but did not expect to see him going, as his style is not of the sort to " go" against " brainy " bowling. Jessop had then had nine innings, and had averacred only 18. not once reaching 40, and the others named had been the batting failnres of the team. "The only reasonable deduction is that the Australian bowling is (more deadly than that against which they scored so heavily and -eo consistently in England last season."

NO N ENTERTAINING. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHTJRCH, January 20. A.t a meeting of the Canterbury Cricket, Association to-night, the treasurer reported V profit of £l9 on the Otago match and £0 7s lOd on the Hawkes Bay mateh. A."discussion took place concerning the expenses in connection with interprovincial matches, and ultimately it was resolved to write to other Associations inNew Zealand askine them to co-operate with the Canterburv Association in dome away with all entertaining at interprovincial matches.