REMARKABLE TEST CHANGE AT LORD’S.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19109, 30 June 1930, Page 7

REMARKABLE TEST CHANGE AT LORD’S.

Australians Score 404 For Loss Of Two Wickets.

BRADMAN GIVES GREAT EXHIBITION,

COMPLETELY MASTERING ENGLISH ATTACK.

THE Australian cricketers broke all records at Lords on the second day of the test by scoring 404 for the loss of two wickets.

Woodfull and Ponsford opened by making 1(52 for the first wicket. Then Bradman treated the crowd with a spectacular knock. He was still in at stumps with 155 to his credit.

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moderate rate, but Woodfull took forty-five minutes for seven runs. The Australians were taking no risks against Tate. After an hour’s play Robins replaced Tate. The score was then 34. The sun was shining brilliantly. It was dull cricket, and the crowd became restive, and barracked Woodfull. Sixty-three runs came alter ninety minutes. The batsmen mastered White and Robins, but Tate bowled at a great pace, and was always dangerous. Ponsford scored freely off Allen with delightful square cuts to the boundary. The lunch adjournment saw Australia 329 behind, with all wickets in hand. Cooees greeted the pair as they left the field. The crowd had grown to 30,000 after lunch. The first hundred showed on the board after 125 minutes. Chapman’s great fielding was applauded frequently. Play then became more attractive. Robins spread the fieldsmen in an effort to coax the batsmen to hit out, but the ruse failed. The batsmen were well set, and Woodfull began to score faster than Ponsford, and frequent changes of bowlers did not worry him. He played attractive shots all round the wicket.

LONDON, June 2S.

Twenty thousand spectators saw the match resume, in bright, warm weather. The wicket was faster than on the previous day. England’s last wicket pair added twenty in twenty minutes, altogether putting on thirty-eight. Duckworth, in skying the fast bowler. Wall, gave Oldheld an easy catch. England’s innings occupied 375 minutes. Apart from Fairfax’s bowling, the best feature of the Australian's out cricket was Oldfield’s admirable wicketkeeping. He ' accepted four chances, and allowed only two byes. Australian Innings.

Woodfull and Ponsford opened at 11.35 a m., Allen sending down the firsi over. There was a particularly strong field in the slips. Allen, in the second over, struck Ponsford three times on the body with fast ones. Woodfull and Ponsford neatly cut Tate on several occasions. Allen, however, was some time in striking form, his length being erratic. Tate was indifferent, but improved later. Play was very slow for some time Tate bowled six overs, of which three were maidens. Ponsford scored at a

His Majesty the King arrived, and play was stopped for ten minutes. Woodfull and Chapman introduced the teams, who were lined up in front of the pavilion, while the crowd stood and cheered. Ponsford Caught. In the first over after, the King’s visit, White replaced Robins, and the big partnership was dissolved. Ponsford mis-hit a rising ball into Hammond’s hands at short slip. He had batted 175 minutes. It was a solid, chanceless innings. lie hit eight fours. Hammond then came on. Bradman was aggressive almost immediately, showing a disposition to punish White, and scored fours off him frequently. Two hundred appeared in 205 minutes. The Australians at tea time were in a splendid position, being only ISI runs behind with nine wickets in hand. Neither Tate nor Robins worried the batsmen. After tea, Bradman dealt severely with Robins’s slow balls. The situation was obviously worrying Chapman. Three hundred appeared in 275 minutes. Brilliant Bradman. Bradman was brilliant. He made a hurricane century in 110 minutes, his sixth century of the tour. It included thirteen fours. The crowd roared with laughter when Woolley was brought on at 326. The great partnership yielded two hundred in 135 minutes. Great ap- , plause greeted Bradman when he reached 150, but the next ball from . Robins &'aw Woodfull stumped when attempting a marathon hit. He had bat- ; ted 330 minutes, hit nine fours, and did not give a chance, i Kippax batted five minutes before stumps were drawn, and brought up , 400 in 335 minutes. ; Bradman hit seventeen fours, one of . the most brilliant showings pf his record. Australians Take Charge. In spite of England’s big total of , 4£5, Australia’s first three batsmen took • complete charge of the bowling, and ‘ put together nearly four hundred runs. ; Woodfull and Ponsford dug themselves . in on a good wicket, and compiled 162 l before the partnership was severed. The youthful Bradman “bashed” the

. bowling unmercifully, and. gave the . crowd a remarkable exhibition of spec- ; tacular batting. He was unconquered i at the drawing of stumps, having l made his second successive test century. Scores:— ENGLAND. - First Innings. ? J. B. Hobbs, c Oldfield, b Fairfax 1 - F. E. Woolley, c Wall, b Fairfax 41 - W. R. Hammond, b Grimmett .. 38 l K. S. Duleepinshji, c Bradman, b , Grimmett 173 . E. Hendren, c M’Cabe, b Fairfax 48 A. P. F. Chapman, c Oldfield, b Wall 11 ; M. Tate, c M’Cabe, b Wall 54 , G. O. Allen, b Fairfax 3 , R. W. Robins, c Oldfield, b Ilornibrook * 5 J. C. White, not out 23 [ G. Duckworth, c Oldfield, b Wall . 18 = Extras 10 Total 425 The fall of wickets was: one for 13, 7 two for 53, three for 105, four for 209, five for 236, six for 239, seven for 337, • eight for 363, nine for 387. Bowling Analysis. O. M. R. W. L Wall 29.4 211 S 3 3 Fairfax 31 6 10 L 4 [ Grimmett .... 33 4 105 2 Horni brook .. 26 6 62 1 j M’Cabe 9 1 29 0 Byes, 2; leg-byes, 7. Fairfax bowled j one no-ball. AUSTRALIA. First Innings. Woodfull, st Duckworth, b Robins 155 W. 11. Ponsford, c Hammond, b 1 White SI D. G. Bradman, not out 155 r. A. F. Kippax, not out 7 3 Extras 6 f Total for two wickets .. 401 THE SECOND TEST, f i By T. W. REESE. The great crowd that gathered at ? Lord’s would be in a happy state of i mind when the second test started. • ) The first game had been won, while the 2 1 win in the football test in New Zealand

would give added satisfaction. Despite the fact that Chapman had. again won the toss, the Australians had no reason to rail at Dame Fortune this time, and it was their own fault entirely that the large score of 405 for nine wickets was recorded. Three

chances dropped before 185 was on the board simply meant looking for trouble, and the Australians got it. The second' day’s play was simply amazing, and I doubt if the old ground has ever seen such exhilarating play. Faced with tlie large score of 425, it was to be expected that Woodfull and Ponsford would take no risks. The hour and a half before lunch is always a difficult time. Jim Phillips, the famous umpire, once said that cricket before lunch was like playing billiards by daylight. However the crowd might roar, forgetting some naturally slow play on the previous day, it was the right game to play. When Allen was erratic and Tate indifferent, there was ample oppor-

tunity for scoring shots, and so the Victorians became set. The weakness in their individual play of the past few weeks had disappeared, and both were at their best. Their 162 runs for a first wicket partnership was very satisfactory, but more was to follow when Bradman came in. It seems to me that in some of his big innings this season he has had to go in when matters were not well'with his side, and he has had to show what defence he had. In this game the occasion called for someone to take charge-of the bowling of a harassed side, and he gave such an exhibition of forceful cricket that the cables had to say that he “bashed” the bowling. It would not be the spectacular, lofty hitting of a Thornton. Bonnor or Jack Lyons—all big men—but the versatile, all-round play of Trumper or Macartney at their best. However much the crowd relished the first day's play, the 30,000 present would be thrilled through and through with the startling exhibition of a lad who has done more already to bring the game back to its fervent hold on the populace than anyone else since Trumper’s palmy days, and this effort compares more than favourably with Macartney’s famous century at Leeds in 1921. The position of the game has changed so completely that England will have to fight hard to save the game.