TARDY START

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 264, 6 November 1937, Page 10

TARDY START

N.Z. TEAM AT ADELAIDE TRIED BY SLOW BOWLERS BRADMAN’S BRIGHT MOOD Received Nov. 5, 11.50 p.m. ADELAIDE, Nov. 5. Scoring only 151 runs in their first innings, the New Zealand cricketers did not open their Australian tour auspiciously against South Australia at the Adelaide Oval to-day. Only 300 saw the New Zealanders play their first match here since 1925. Anxious about their form after being on a long sea voyage, the visitors, who won the toss, were tardy to start, only eleven runs being scored in the first halt-hour. The score at lunch was four for 55, and it was nine for 154 at the tea adjournment. It took 156 minutes to reach the first hundred. Most batsmen played the fast attack confidently, but the slow bowlers, Grimmett and Ward, were the bogies. Before lunch Grimmett had taken three wickets for eight. The visitors would have been in sad straits but for the Weir—.Moloney partnership of 47. Weir's innings yielded 38 runs in 84 minutes. Although he was content to wait for the loose balls his stylish stroking promised bigger things on the Australian tour. He lifted Grimmett and Ward into the grandstand for two sixes, and he was caught on the boundary when attempting another big hit oft Ward. Moloney's solid 25 was made in 78 minutes, and included one four. The fast bowler, Williams, skittled Moloney’s stumps when he was 20, but it was a •'no-ball." The captain, Page, strove to keep his side together with a patient innings, but the Test slow bowler, Ward, proved 100 much of a match for the tail-enders, taking four of the last five wickets.

Steady bowling and exceptionally keen fielding on the part of the New Zealanders kept South Australian score down. The visitors became particularly heartened with the wiexets of Walker and Richardson. The team's ambition since their arrival in Adelaide has been to see Bradman in action. When he joined Badcock at two for 38 he jumped straight into his brightest scoring mood and 50 came in 61 minutes. • The weather was fine and the wicket perfect. Scores are:— New Zealand.

Fall of wickets: One for 18, two for 42, three for 45, four for 45, five for 92, six for 113, - seven for 123, eight for 126, nine for 134. Bowling:

SHEFFIELD SHIELD N.S.W. AND QUEENSLAND Received Nov. 5, 11.50 p.m. BRISBANE, Nov. 5. The Sheffield Shield competition opened at Brisbane to-day. Against Queensland, New South Wales, in their first innings, lost three for 42. A sodden wicket and heavy rain during luncheon caused the abandonment of play for the day. NEW ZEALAND TEAM COWIE BEST BOWLER. OPINION OF EYE-WITNESS. [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Nov. 5. Mr. F. M. Martin, who is well known in Wellington cricket circles, returned to-day by the Tamaroa from England. While at home Mr. Martin saw the New Zealand cricket team in action and declared in an interview that the team was a much better side than would appear from the results. The New Zealand bowler Cowie was the best fast bowler he saw in England. Gover, the Englishman, bowled with a ring of about eight men around the wickets and sent down half-pitched balls in the hope that the batsmen would be tempted by them. He did not see Gover send down a ball to hit the wickets. Cowie's record on the other hand showed that he hit the “sticks” of many of England's best batsmen. Without Cowie in the side New Zealand would not have got

England out. He kept a wonderful length and every ball was a danger to the batsmen. Mr. Martin said his impression was that the English bowlers would find it hard work to get Australia out m the next Tests. The New Zealand bdttlr.g on the whole was a little disappointing, and probably that could be put down particularly to the failure of Carson. Donnelly and Wallace were very good.

First Innings. Vivian, c Walker, b Cotton 11 Kerr, c Cotton, b Grimmett 1U Wallace, b Grimmett 17 Donnelly, lbw, b Grimmett 0 Moloney, c Richardson, b WilHams - - —- 25 Weir, c Hamence, b Ward 38 Roberts, c Hamence, b Ward Q Parsloe, c and b Ward - 0 T’adill, lbw, b Ward ....... 11 CJvie, b Waite 11 Page, not out - *■ 21 Extras - - Total - 151

O. M. F . w. Cotton 10 2 8 1 Williams 11 1 32 1 Grimmett lu 4 21 3 Waite 9.3 1 - 4 1 Ward 12 1 >9 < South Australia. First Innings. Walker, lbw, b Parsloe 9 Richardson b Vivian 9 Badcock, not out .............. 34 Bradman, not out — ... . 11 Extras 1 Total, two wickets for 64 Bowling. 0. M. R. W. Cowie 7 2 17 0 Parsloe . 6 0 L9 1 Roberts 2 0 4 0 Moloney 1 0 6 0