AUSTRALIA’S SEVEN HUNDRED.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18608, 2 July 1930, Page 9

AUSTRALIA’S SEVEN HUNDRED.

Score In Second Test. ENGLAND’S COLOSSAL TASK. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Convrleht.) LONDON, June 30. Twenty-five thousand were present after lunch for the continuation of the second Test match, Australia v. England. Bradman’s Record Score. White was driven to the boundary, but Tate was not punished, owing to good length. Bradman, slamming White to the boundary reached 250. He then made .his score the highest of the tour, but the immense innings ended when he attempted to drive to the off the next ball, Chapman taking a good running catch. The young Australian received a tremendous ovation for his chanceless innings, which ♦ occupied 335 minutes. He hit 25 fours, and the partnerships yielded 192 and 175. Three runs later White had another success, Kippax playing on, after a solid exhibition, without a chance. Most of his runs were scored behind the wicket by perfectly timed cuts and glances. He only got four boundaries. Richardson drove White to the fence, raising 600 after 540 minutes, and equalling Australia’s best Test aggregate. The South Australian batsman treated the spectators to an exhibition of virile hitt.ng. One tremendous sixer was the first of the match. McCabe also hit freely. The pair shattered the last remaining Test record, when the 636 scored by England in Sydney last year was passed. The pair added 55 in 22 minutes, and Richardson was then caught at cover. Oldfield';, who was next, started smartly. McCabe’s bright innings of 40 minutes was ended by a simple catch at mid-on. He had made eight fours. Seven hundred came up in 600 minutes. Such a gigantic score had never been recorded at Lord’s before. At tea time Australia led by 304, and Woodfull closed the innings which had lasted 625 minutes. England’s Task. A tremendous task faced England when the second innings began at 4.50. The wicket, though wearing well was not expected to remain in good order. Moreover, the Australian ,/lers had been well rested. Hobbs and Woolley played quietly. The latter when five dangerously cu,t a' ball, which passed the wicketkeeper. Grimmett replaced Fairfax and half an hour produced 32 runs. The slow bowler had a sensational success at 45, completely beating and bowling Hobbs. Hammond uncertainly played the remaining balls of the over. Grimmett worried both batsmen, but 50 appeared in even time. Then Grimmett forced Woolley so far back that he dislodged the bails.

Thus two valuable bats were lost in an hour. England was in a sorry position when Duleepsinhji came in with 40 minutes left for play. Hammond and he played watchfully, Hornibrook causing both batsmen some concern. At stumps, 98 had been scored in 100 minutes. Hammond in the last stage was showing better form, but Duleepsinhji batted nicely all through. RESUMPTION OF MATCH. ENGLAND’S FIGHT AGAINST TIME. (United Press Association—By Electri. Teletrranh— Copyright.) (Received July 2, 12.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 1. Fortunately for Australia, and unfortunately for England, the weather is still fine for the last day of the Test match, but sultry and overcast. Ten thousand spectators were present when Hammond and Duleepsinhji, resumed requiring 207 to avoid an innings defeat. Two maidens were bowled by Wall. Grimmett then made a confident appeal against Duleepsinhji for a catch at short slip off Grimmett. The umpire apparently thought the ball came off the pads and disallowed the appeal. Duleepsinhji had begun to walk to the pavilion. The Indian was then 26. He lifted Grimmett twice to the boundary. Hammond was very worried by Grimmett. The pitch was bone dry, dusty and bare. Wall was making the ball rise.

Wall caused no trouble, Hornibrook displacing him at 121. Three maidens followed. Hammond who was hopelessly tangled by Grimmett mishit several balls. Duleepsinhji, too, nearly played on the wicket, but met the googly bowler with more confidence than his partner, who after many mistakes lost his wicket. Playing forward he hit the ball straight at Fairfax at silly mid-on, the fieldsman falling in taking a good catch.

Hammond was in 100 minutes. He gave a wretched display; indeed it was miraculous he lasted so long.

Hendren attempted to sweep the next ball to leg, but missed badly. He was also uncomfortable against Hornibrook. The state of the pitch clearly worried the batsmen. Hendren lasted only ten minutes. He gave Richardson the simplest mid-off catch. Grimmett had thus got all four wickets. Five wickets were down for 147 and England was in the toils when Allen joined Chapman. The former slogged Grimmett, who placed a crescent fieldsman on the off-side for Chapman, who naturally had not attempted his usual hitting game. Allen, however, was extremely venturesome, and the crowd glumly watched two amateurs fight to save England. (BY RADIO). f Play was resumed at 2.20, with the 1 score five for 262 (Chapman 52, Allen 54), and 42 required to save an innings defeat. The crowd had grown to 31,000. The bowlers were Wall jpd Grim-

mett. Runs came at cnce, four being hit off the over. Allen played a maiden, and off the next Chapman scored a two and a three (two for an overthrow) off Grimmett. The batsman then played a maiden off each bowler, and the score stood at 271 (Chapman 58. Allen 57, sundries 20), 33 short of the Australians’ total. After Chapman had added a single, Allen ■went l.b.w. to Grimmett, for 57, the board reading 272 for six, and Tate joined Chapman. Chapman then went after runs, and 300 came up amid cheering. When the score reached 329, Tate, going for a long hit, was caught right on the boundary by Ponsford, off Grimmett, for 10, Chapman being 100 not out. With 25 more than the number necessary to avert an innings defeat, Robins joined Chapman. At 121, the English captain was caught at the wickets by Oldfield, off Fairfax. White joined Robins, but after making 10 was run out. Duckworth got in front to Fairfax before he had scored, and the innings closed at 375, leaving Australia 71 to get to win. Following are the scores:—

Comment on Play. Mr P. F. Warner, writing in the “Morning Post,” says the Australian team has gained a tremendous advantage, and unless rain intervenes, it looks as if victory will be theirs. After such a terrific score, doubtless the British bowlers will be heartlessly cursed, but it is both senseless and unfair to blame them. It is merely a question of exceptionally fine batsmen triumphing over the bowlers. Bradman, at the age of 21, is the champion batsman of the world.

Sydney messages report that the Australians’ huge score, and Bradman’s new records, are naturally the chief subject of conversation throughout the Commonwealth. Interest and excitement been heightened by the radio’s running descriptions of the epic test, while the Press is publishing the fullest details of Bradman’s notable achievements. Theer are hosts of snappy cartoons appearing in the papers, perhaps the most significant being three chain links, the two outside of which are very hefty, representing Kingsford Smith and Bradman respectively. The centre one is extremely puny, and is labelled “Our financial condition—our weakest link.”

TEST CRICKET RECORDS. COMPARED WITH BRADMAN'S SCORES. Several Test cricket records were broken by the Australians’ score of 729 runs for six wickets against England at Lord's yesterday. It is the highest score ever made in one innings of any Teet match, the previous best being England’s 636 at Sydney in December, 1923, when W. R. Hammond scored 251 before he was bowled by H. Ironmonger. The next best individual score in that innings at Sydney was E. Hendren’s 74. The Australians’ score is the best ever made by an Australian team in one innings. Their previous best was 600, made at Melbourne in January, 1925, when V. Y. Richardson scored 138 and W. H. Ponsford 128. The third record broken is that for any Test match innings played on au English ground. Previously the best in England was 576, scored by England at Kennington Oval in August 1909, when F. S. Jackson and T. Hayward

put on 185 runs for the first wicket. Jackson being bowled when he had made 118, and Hayward going on to make 137 before he was caught. As a corollary to that record, yesterday’s score is also the best ever made in a Test match at Lord’s. Hitherto the best in a Test innings on that ground was 475, made, at a cost of only tliree wickets, by England in June, 1926, E. Hendren being top-scorer with 127, and J. B. Hobbs making 119. Previously, the best score made at Lord's by an Australian team was the 421 which J. Darling’s team of 1899 put up in June of that year, Clem Hill and Victor Trumper each scoring 13a runs, but with Trumper’s innings a not-out one.

The Australians* score yesterday gives, of course, the best average for each wicket that an Australian team has obtained yet, the score averaging 121.50 runs a wicket. But the best average obtained in any innings in a match between England and Australia is the 158.33 for each of the three wickets that fell in the English team’s innings at Lord’s in 1926, already referred to. In 1924 England declared at 531 for two wickets against South Africa at Lord’s. Australia’s best performances against England have been better than its best against South Africa. When the Australians closed their innings on Monday, 599 runs had still to be scored in the match to equal the record aggregate for a whole Test match, 1753 runs having been scored in the four innings of the Adelaide Test in January, 1921. The highest individual score ever made in Test cricket is the 287 which R. E. Foster scored, in a team-total of 577. at Sydney in December, 1903. It is curious that the best two individual scores made by Australians in Test cricket have all been made in England. W. L. Murdoch’s 211—hitherto the record score for an Australian in a Test match—was made at the Oval in August, 1884. There were two other three-figure scores in the Australians’ innings in that match, P. S. McDonnell making 103 and H. J. H Scott 102. The team-total was 551. The best score yet made by an Australian batsman in Australia is 201 not out, which J. Ryder got at Adelaide in January, 1925. S. E. Gregory scored 201 at Sydney in December, 1894, but he was caught out.

Until yesterday, the best score made by an Australian jn a Test match at Lords was Warren Bardsley’s 193 not out, in a team-total of 383, in June, 1926.

Bradman’s 254 is not the best score ever made by a member of an Australian team in any first-class cricket in England In 1921 C. G. Macartney scored 345 runs against Notts, at Nottingham, the side scoring 675 runs in the innings. The highest score ever made by an Australian eleven in a first-class match in England is 843, scored against Oxford and Cambridge Universities Past and Present at Portsmouth in 1893, W. Bruce making 191, A. C. Bannerman 133, and H. Trumble 105.

No wicket-partnership records for Test cricket were broken by the Aus.xalians’ score in this test.

AUSTRALIA. First Innings. Woodfull, st. Duckworth, b Robins 155 Ponsford, c Hammond, b White.. 81 Bradman, c Chapman, b White .. 254 Kippax, b White 83 McCabe, c Woolley, b Hammond 44 Richardson, c Hobbs, b Tate 30 Oldfield, not out 43 Fairfax, not out I 20 Extras 19 Total for 6 wickets (declared) .. 729 Fall of Wickets.—One for 162; two for 293; three for 393; four for 587; five for 643; six for 673us. Md. Rs. Wkts. Allen .... 34 7 115 0 White .... 51 7 158 3 Hammond .. 35 8 82 1 Robins .. 42 1 172 1 Tats .. .. 64 IS 148 1 Woolley .... 6 0 35 0 ENGLAND. First Innings. Hobbs, c Oldfield, b Fairfax .. .. 1 Woolley, c Wall, b Fairfax .. .. 41 Hammond, b Grimmett 38 Duleepsinhji, c Bradman, b Grimmett 173 Hendren, c McCabe, b Fairfax .. 48 Chapman, c Oldfield, b Wall .. .. 11 Tate, c McCabe, b Wall 54 Allen, b Fairfax 3 Robins, c Oldfield, b Hornibrook 5 White, not out 23 Duckworth, c Oldfield, b Wall .. .. 18 Fall of wickets.—One for 13, two for 53, three for 105, four for 209, five for 236, six for 239, seven for 337, eight for 363, nine for 387, ten for 425. Os. Md. Rs. Wkts. Wall 29.4 2 118 3 Fairfax .... 31 6 101 4 Grimmett 33 4 105 2 Hornibrook 26 6 61 1 Second Innings. Hobbs, b Grimmett 19 Woolley, hit wicket, b Grimmett 28 Hammond, c Fairfax, b Grimmett 32 Duleepsinhji, c Oldfield, b Hornibrook 48 Hendren, c Richardson, b Grimmett 9 Chapman, c Oldfield, b Fairfax .. 121 Allen, lbw, b Grimmett 57 Tate, c Ponsford, b Grimmett .. 10 Robins, not out 11 White, run out 10 Duckworth, lbw, b Fairfax 0 Total 375