CRICKET

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19844, 19 May 1927, Page 5

CRICKET

ESSEX WINS NEW ZEALANDERS’ DEFEAT DEMPSTEB AND LOWBY MAKE STAND TRICKY WICKET CAUSES DISASTER LONDON, May 17. Owing to rain overnight there was no play at Leyton Ground before lunch. When the game resumed at 1.45 the New Zealanders were unlucky enough to have to face a drying wicket, rendered tricky by the hot siin. Nicholls, in particular, bumped riskily and one ball hit Dempster on the chest. He and Lowry made the pluckiest stand of the innings. The wicket was assisting the spin bowlers and was steadily becoming coarse. After the captain was stumped in jumping out to drive O’Connor, Dempster plodded on gamely, but met with no support except from Oliver. The batsmen found L. Eastman and O’Connor too much for them, and they went through the remainder in quick order. The pace of the wicket seemed to puzzle Dacre,-who was never comfortable, and got out in a most unusual way by mistiming a full toss from O ’Connor and allow it to hit his leg. Dempster was severe on anything on the offside and had six clinking boundary hits ih his first fifty. His innings was altogether an admirable effort. With only 125 to get, Essex did none too well, and only the sturdy innings

by L. Eastman saved them from possible disaster, when Blunt was bowling splendidly. A characteristic stolid piece of batting by Douglas clenched Eastman’s effort, and enabled Essex to win by five wickets. Blunt took four wickets and bowled thirteen maidens. Scores: — New Zealand. First Innings 289 Second Innings. Lowry, st. G. Eastman, b O ’Connor 30 I Dempster, c and bL. Eastman .. 79 i Dacre, lbw, b O’connor 5 Oliver, c and b Eastman 13 | McGirr, lbw, b Eastman 7 I Bernau, lbw, b Eastman 0 I Cunningham, c Nichols, b O’Connor 2 'Merritt, not out 7 Extras 18 Total 208 Bowling Analysis.—Eastman took five wickets for 3.1 runs; O’Connor, live ' for 92; Nichols, none for 25; Douglas, l none for 6; Hipkin, none for 35; and ; Russell, none for 1. Essex. First Innings 373 Second Innings. ; Cutmore, c James, b Blunt 18 i L. Eastman, lbw, b Blunt 41 !<)’Connor, st. James, b Blunt .... 12 I Russel], b Blunt 0 1 Ashton, b Merritt . 13 i Douglas, not out 19 ; Mor ips, not out 11 i Extras 11 ! Total (for five wickets) .. .. 125 j Bowling Analysis.—Blunt took four I wickets for 29 runs; Merritt, one for , 35; Oliver, none for 10; McGirr, none I for 19; Dacre, none for 10; Cunning- • ham, none for 1; and Lowry, none for 110. I Essex won by five wickets. Quite a novel scoring card for the New Zealand cricket team’s tour of England has been issued by Messrs W. , 1). and’ H. O. Wills, Ltd., Wellington. i The covers of the cards are replicas of I the well-known covers of the cigarette ipackets, being coloured in yellow and i green. Cricket enthusiasts will find the scoring cards useful for the purpose of compiling a record of the team’s scores.