NEW ZEALANDERS WIN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19865, 13 June 1927, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS WIN

DOMINION CRICKETERS’ VICTORY Worcestershire Defeated Easily Match With Northants Opens Much pleasure will be evidenced in cricketinc circles in New Zealand at the news of the splendid victory achieved by the New Zealand cricket team on tour in England in their tenth match, against Worcestershire. The visitors' winning margin was an ample one and augurs well for the future. Their eleventh match was commenced on Saturday and the New Zealanders succeeded in getting their opponents out for 237 runs, and have themselves lost three wickets for BG. SCORES: Worcester. Northants. New Zealand 276 and 5 for 349 Northants ——— —— —... 237 Worcester 222 and 209 New Zealand 3 for 86

AT KETTERING

BLUNT’S BOWLING AVERAGE. VISITORS START BADLY. Received June 12, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, June 12. The New Zealand cricketers began a taatch at Kettering today against Northamptonshire. The County men went in first and were disposed of for 23«. slumps were drawn at the dose Ox pla\ the New Zealanders had lost three wickets for 86. Rain overnight had softened the wicket, and when play started runs were difficult to get. Woolley and Wills opened slowly against the bowling of McGirr and Allcott, but they knocked up fifty in as many minutes. Blunt went on after lunch and off his first bail he got Bellamy caught in the slips. Jupp sent the next one to the ropes and was missed in the same over, after which he hit Allcott for two fours. Prior to this Jupp had treated the bowlers with respect* Later he put up a ball which enabled Allcott to bring off a well-judged running catch. Wills did not "ive a chance during the 225 minutes he batted for his 6S, which included eight fours. It is his highest score in first-class cricket. Timms hit two sixes and seven fours and was twice missed, but he fell to a remarkable one-handed catch by Oliver on the leg boundary where the fieldsman stumbled and fell' but retained hold of the ball. Blunt and Mills put on fifty for New Zealand’s first wicket. The former completed his half-century (out for 81 then scored) in seventy minutes. Detailed scores were as follows: Northamptonshire. First Innings. Woolley, c James, b Blunt 24 Wills, b Allcott 68 Bellamy, c Page, b Blunt —— —• 14 Jupp, c Allcott, b Blunt 31 Walden, c Lowry, b Allcott —2 Timms, e Oliver, b Blunt 5o Towell, c James, b Blunt 0

Pennington, b Blunt 0 Wright, c Page, b Blunt 9 Matthews, c James, b Merritt 28 Thomas, not out 4 Extras Total - - Bowling analysis: McGirr, no wickets for 13, Allcott two for 45, Page none for 13, Oliver none for 9, Blunt seven for 109, Bernau none for 9, Merritt one for 36. New Zealand. First Innings. Mills, h Jupp 18 Blunt, l.b.w. Jupp 50 l/owry. b Towell 12 Page, not out 4 James, not out ——— 0 Extras 2 Total, three wickets for 86 THEIR SECOND WIN WORCESTER COMFORTABLY BEATEN. LONDON, June 10. The New Zealanders’ defeat of Worcestershire is considered an excellent performance. They played like a team which considered itself the better side, and never allowed momentary discomforts to upset that belief. Fox played cautiously and again same out with top score for the County, making 79. precisely the same nuxiber as in the first innings. Tarbox batted spiritedly, and this

'pair put on a bold front for a time and :redeemed the innings from insignifi- : rance. But for them the game would | have been over before lunch. Lowry Perseveres with Merritt. ■ Lowry’s policy plainly was to entire the batsmen to get themselves out. iHe appeared to have told Merritt to j persevere in pitching the ball up and i kept him on for an hour and three- • quarters. Though he failed to get his i wicket, the youngster puzzled King im- : mensely. but both Fox and Tarbox were ■ comparatively comfortable. King was ' run out very unluckily. He drove Mer•ritt hard and the ball hit his stumps. The batsman did not see where it went to and started off without looking. Once, however, Fox and Tarbox were separated, McGirr and Merritt, who was brought on again, just before lunch, rapidly finished off the innings. James, who kept wickets excellently throughout, caught Fr.x magnificently on the leg side, and in the end the County were beaten by 194 runs. The wicket played beautifully. The local bowling club used the outfield each evening for their pastime after stumps were drawn. Details follow: New Zealand. First Innings 276 Second Innings (dec.) five wickets for 349 Worcester. First Innings . 222 Second Innings. Wright, st. Janies, b Merritt 2 Gibbons, 1.b.w.. b Merritt 17 Fox, c James, b McGirr 79 King, run out 28 Tarbox, c James, b MHcGirr 35 Spencer, b McGirr 2 Shakespeare, b McGirr 5 j Coventry, c Henderson, b Allcott 16 j Foster, not out iuii 7 Garratt, c Mills, b Merritt 1 Price, c Allcott, b Merritt 0 Extras 17 Total 209 Bowling analysis: McGirr, 4 for 62; HHenderson, 0 for 20; Merritt. 4 for 75; j Lowry. 0 for 13, Allcott, 1 for 9; Berinau, 0 for 13.

WELL SATISFIED ABSENCE OF CRACK BOWLERS [Ter Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, June 11. “I think we can quite safely leave the team Ln the hands of the English authorities,” said Mr D. Reece, chairI man of the Management Committee of ■ the New Zealand Cricket when asked if he cared to pass any comment on the telegraphed remarks of Mr S. Brice, one of the selectors of the team, in reference to the absence of some prominent players from the County sides. ‘‘The Englishmen are only doing now what the Australians have, done to New Zealand over a long term of years,” continued Mr Reece. “I fe-el quite certain that the play of the New Zealanders to date has, in itself sufficiently demonstrated,at any rate to Sussex and Worcestershire, the mistake of leaving out their crack bowlers. There is plenty of cricket ahead of the present team to enable them to force the leading counties to play something like their best sides. One must also remember the English Counties’ pent of view. They all have big seasons, and even counties like Yorkshire and Lancashire and others frequently rest their star bowlers against the weaker counties. It would be savouring a little of presumption on New Zealand’s part to make any definite request to the English Counties on this matter.”