ENGLAND’S BACK TO WALL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19860, 25 July 1934, Page 9

ENGLAND’S BACK TO WALL

PLAY ON FOURTH DAY OF TEST

HEAVY RAIN HELPS HOME SIDE

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright LONDON, July 23. At stumps to-day, the third day of the fourth Test match, England, with four wickets down, still needed 196 runs to avert an innings defeat. Bradman to-day carried his score of 271 not out to 304. He gave only one chance, at 280, during his seven hours at the wickets, and 134 of his runs came from boundary strokes. The rest of the team were quickly disposed of, Bowes finishing with six wickets for 142, which, in an innings of 584, was a splendid performance. Facing a first innings lead of 384, England started Its uphill struggle badly, Walters lost Keeton at 28, and at 70 Hammond was smartly run out. O’Reilly beat Walters at 87, and Wyatt, after a good fighting innings, fell to Grlmmett at 152, England’s Second Innings. Walters and Keeton opened England’s second innings half an hour before lunch. Wall was bowling decidedly faster than on Friday. Grimmett came on when the score was 14, replacing McCabe, who had sent down two overs. In the slow bowler’s third over, Keeton was beaten by a leg break. At lunch England had lost one wicket for 23 runs. Valuable Wicket Lost. The crowd totalled 30,000 after the adjournment. Hammond was slow to get going, while O’Reilly’s pace from the pitch troubled Walters. Nevertheless, two fours from one of O’Reilly’s overs to Walters brought 50 up In 50 minutes. Hammond three times hit Grimmett to the fence and then played a ball to mid-on and started to run too lute, A good return to Grimmett beat him home. Walters was confident against Grimmett, but O’Reilly’s slowflighted ball brought his attractive innings to an end. He was lured out to a beautiful delivery and clean bowled. Three for 86. The first change after lunch was made nt 3.30 p.m., Wall displacing O'Reilly. Wyatt was in 20 minutes before he scored. The first 100 took 115 minutes. Hendren and Wyatt were now comfortable. Grimmett, who had bowled for one and a half hours without a change, was relieved by Chipperfield, who was slow to find his length, both batsmen collecting four. Thereafter, to the tea adjournment, the batting was undistinguished. A crowd of 35,000 was present after tea. Bromley substituted in the field for Bradman, whose injury was due to the roughness of the outfield. The total of 150 runs occupied 185 minutes. Wyatt’s plucky innings of two hours ended when he tried to swing Grimmett to leg. The ball made pace from the pitch and dislodged the bails. Grimmett fully deserved the wicket for he had repeatedly beaten the batsmen. Wall bowled better than on any previous occasion in this match, but Hendren and Leyland confronted him with a solid defence. Grimmett, who was in great form, bowled prodigious breaks, often beating Leyland. but the batsmen hung on doggedly until stumps were drawn. The innings thus far had occupied 260 minutes. TENSE STRUGGLE DEVELOPS RAIN CAUSES HOLD-UP OF PLAY United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received July 25, 1.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 24. Although there was heavy oyernlght rain which left the outfield slow at Leeds, the ends of the wicket were covered and apparently it was not seriously affected when play was resumed in the test match this morning only eight minutes late. The weather was gloomy and threatening. Before either Hendren or Leyland had scored, rain stopped play, causing a short delay. Upon resumption Hendren was out leg before wicket to O’Reilly, without adding to his overnight score. Hendren had been patient and solid in a chanceless innings, hitting five fours. The fieldsmen clustered thickly round Ames and Leyland with nobody in the outfield. The wicket was not yet difficult, but the batsmen displayed the utmost caution. Two hundred runs were raised in 285 minutes. O’Reilly maintained a perfect length forcing the batsmen to play back. He looked more troublesome than Grimmett, whom Leyland powerfully swung to the boundary. Ames played the “dead bat" game until he was tempted to swing at Grimmett, and was nicely caught by Brown at deep square leg. When Ames went, England’s last hope disappeared, except for the weather staving off defeat. Hopwood began shakily and survived a reverberating appeal for leg before from O’Reilly, but Leyland continued splendidly, keeping Hopwood away from the strike. Again O’Reilly appealed against Hopwood and amused the crowd. Huge black clouds and peals of thunder threatened heavy rain which soon pelted down in a torrent, flooding the ground, which was a bitter disappointment for the Australians. Just previously Hopwood cocked up a ball to silly mid-on and he again survived an appeal for what appeared a brilliant catch by Wall. Lunch was then

taken, the score being six wickets for 229 runs. Following are the scores:

At 3.15 a.m. the announcement came through that there would be a further inspection of the wicket at 5 o’clock (English time).

ENGLAND. First Innings. Walters, c and b Chipperfleld .. 44 Keeton, c Oldfield, b O'Reilly .. .. 25 Hammond, b Wall 37 Hendren, b Chipperfleld 29 Wyatt, stpd. Oldfield, b Grimmett 19 Leyland, lbw„ b O’Reilly 16 Ames, c Oldfield, b Grimmett 9 Hopwood, lbw., b O'Reilly .. .. 8 Verity, not out 2 Mitchell, stpd. Oldfield, b Grimmett 9 Bowes, c Ponsford, b Grimmett 0 Total 200 Fall of wickets—One for 43; two for 85; three for 135; four for 135; five for 168; six lor 170; seven for 189; eight for 189; nine for 200. Bowling Analysis. O. M. R. W. Wall 18 1 57 1 McCabe .... 4 2 3 0 Grimmett .... 30.4 11 57 4 O’Reilly .... 35 16 46 3 Chipperfleld .. 18 6 35 2 Second Innings. Walters, b O'Reilly 45 Keeton, b Grimmett 12 Hammond, run out 20 Hendren, lbw., b O’Reilly .. .. 42 Wyatt, b Grimmett 44 Leyland, not out 49 Ames, c Brown, b Grimmett .. .. 8 Hopwood. not out 2 Total for six wickets .. .. 229 Fall of wickets—One for 28; two for 70; three for 87; four for 188; five for 190; six for 2^0, AUSTRALIA. First Innings. Ponsford, hit wkt., b Verity .. .. 181 Brown, b Bowes 15 Oldfield, c Ames, b Bowes 0 Woodfull, b Bowes 0 Bradman, b Bowes 304 McCabe, b Bowes 27 Darling, b Bowes 12 Chipperfleld, c Wyatt, b Verity .. 1 Grimmett, run out - 15 O’Reilly, not out n Wall, lbw., b Verity i Total Fall of wickets—One for 37; two for 39; three for 39; four for 427; five for 517; six for 550; seven for 551; eight for 557; nine for 574. Bowling Analysis. O. M. R. W. Bowes 50 13 142 6 Mitchell 23 1 in 0 Hammond 29 5 82 0 Verity 46.5 15 113 3 Hopwood 30 7 93 0 Leyland 5 0 20 0