AUSTRALIA WIN.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20311, 22 May 1934, Page 1

AUSTRALIA WIN.

VICTORY BY INNINGS AND 33 RUNS. Sensational Opening. BOWLERS SUCCESSFUL AGAINST OXFORD. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 22, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 21. Australia won the match against Oxford by an innings and 33 runs. Oxford made 70 in their first innings and 216 in their second innings. Grimmett’s bowling again proved too much for the Englishmen. He took seven wickets for 109 in the second innings. Saturday’s play had concluded with the Australians having scored 319 in their first innings and Varsity having lost tw’O wickets for 5 runs. To-day’s play began in dull weather. The wicket was good. There were 5000 spectators present. The match was resumed sensationally. Fleetwood-Smith, who was brought on to allow Ebeling to change ends, took three wickets for no runs in his first over, clean-bowling MitchellInnes, Chalk and Stainton with the first, third and fourth balls. FleetwoodSmith flighted off-spinners into the stiff breeze and completely deceived all three batsmen. The total was five for 15. and with 48 on the board two more wickets fell, those of Walker and Tindall. The match was also proving Ebeling’s most successful appearance of the tour. He obtained two further wickets, those of Barlow and Singleton, w{th successive balls, and the side was all out after eighty minutes. Oldfield was excellent behind the wicket, effecting two very fine stumpings in addition to allowing no extras. The wicket was not really difficult, but Fleetwood-Smith turned the ball abruptly. Oxford followed on. Grimmett and Ebeling bowled after lunch, the latter soon dismissing Townsend with a fast in-swinger. Two overs later, finding the wicket more lively, he got Walker, who was well caught behind. De Saram and Mitchell-Innes were scoring well until the latter was also caught behind. De Saram and Chalk figured in a promising stand until the latter fell a victim to the Grimmett-Oldfield combination. De Saram, batting with admirable soundness—scoring ten in one over from Grimmett and lifting FleetwoodSmith for six—reached 50 after ninety minutes. Eight thousand spectators were present after the afternoon tea adjournment. De Saram continued attractively, but lost Stainton, who had batted stubbornly for ninety-five minutes for 12 runs. De Saram powerfully swung Grimmett for four and six off successive balls. His splendid century occupied 165 minutes. He then hit with abandon, straight-driving Grimmett and Fleetwood-Smith for six apiece. Eventually Grimmett got him nicely caught on the boundary. De Saram batted for 185 minutes, hitting four sixes and eighteen fours. Scores:— AUSTRALIA. First Innings. Ponsford, c Singleton b Dyson .. 75 Brown, lbw b Townsend 20 Bradman, lbw b Dyson 37 Darling, lbw b Tindall 100 M’Cabe, b Tindall 15 Bromley, b Barlow 3 Chipperfield, c Stainton b Barlow 40 Oldfield, b Tindall 8 Grimmett, b Tindall 0 Ebeling, c Walker b Tindall 0 Fleetwood-Smith, not out 2 Extras 19 Total 319 Bowling analysis—Tindall, five wickets for 94; Barlow, two for 102; Townsend. one for 18; Singleton, none for 38; Dyson, two for 48. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. First Innings. D. F. Walker, st Oldfield b Fleet-wood-Smith 20 C. H. Townsend, b M’Cabe 0 F. C. de Saram, b Ebeling 2 N. S. Mitchell-Innes, b FleetwoodSmith 8 F. G. Chalk, b Fleetwood-Smith 0 R G. Stainton. b Fleetwood-Smith 0 R. G. Tindall, b Ebeling 18 E A. Barlow, b Ebeling 3 M. H. Matthews, not out 11 A. P. Singleton, b Ebeling 0 J H. Dyson, st Oldfield b Fleet-wood-Smith 8 Extras 0 Total 70 Bowling analysis:—Ebeling, four for 34; M’Cabe, one for 6; FleetwooclSmith, five for 30. Second Innings. Townsend, b Ebeling 9 Walker, c Oldfield b Ebeling 16 De Saram, c Brown b Grimmett .. 128 Mitchell-Innes, c Oldfield b Grimmett 11 Chalk, st Oldfield b Grimmett .... 10 Stainton, lbw b Grimmett 12 Tindall, lbw b Grimmett 9 Barlow, st Oldfield b Grimmett .. 0 Matthews, c Ebeling b Grimmett .. 4 Singleton, lbw b Fleetwood-Smith . 2 Dyson, not out 0 Extras 9 Total 216 Bowling analysis.—Grimmett, seven for 109; Fleetwood-Smith, one for 63: Ebeling, two for 28; M’Cabe, none for Oxford, as a team, generally have had a varied career, and their performances are always hard to forecast. Last year

they did not have anything like such a good season as was expected. To quote Wisden’s “ Almanack ”; As inevitably happens, schools and examinations claimed the attention of several members of the side, and Hone (the captain), who represented Oxford against Cambridge at lawn tennis, naturally had to devote much of his time to the less important pastime. Consequently the cricket eleven underwent too frequent and too many changes for the best to be seen of the individual players till they went on tour. Then they w-ere not* opposed by the full strength of either Sussex or Surrey, so that it is impossible to appraise the merits of the team.”

NICHOL DIES SUDDENLY.

Played Against Australians This Month. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Cop/right. (Received May 22, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 21. The death has occurred at the age of twenty-nine years of M. Nichol, one of Worcestershire’s most promising cricketers. He played against the Australians in the match at the beginning | of this month and also for his county against Essex on Saturday. | Nichol died suddenly during the ; night at an hotel in Chelmsford, after 1 an afternoon's golf. The resumption of the Essex-Wor-cestershire match was delayed for half an hour, and the team took the field wearing black arm-bands. Flags were flown at half-mast, and one minute’s silence was observed after the first MERRITT DOES WELL. LONDON, May 21. In their respective matches in Lanca- | shire League cricket W. E. Merritt j took four wickets and scored 53 runs, 1 and L. Constantine took six wickets j and scored 51 runs.