CRICKET.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 30 December 1926, Page 3

CRICKET.

(Per Press juisociation—Copyright.! ADELAIDE, Dec. 29. Queensland, in th. e second innings I made 379 (Gough 73, Gill 36). | Bowling.—A. Richardson, 2 for 46; I Grimmett, 5 for 109. | South Australia, second innings, none for 54 (V. Richardson, not out, 28; Schneider, not out, 22). I South Australia won by ten wickets, j Although Queensland batted pluckI ily, the task was hopeless from the I outset, and South Australia easily comI piled the runs necessary for a ten wickets win. In the Sheffield Shield, New South Wales in the second innings made 230. Phillips 36, Morgan 26, Kippax 26, Ratcliffe 44, Jackson 59 not out. Liddicutt took 4 for 66. Hartkopf u for 98. I The record making match ended with ■ a record beating for New South Wales , by an innings and 655 runs. i The Victorian bowlers, Hartkopf and I Liddicutt put up proportionately alI most as a good a performance as her batsmen on the previous days. I The weather was fine and the wicket I still good. The baiting was of routine, I though .fairly lively order in early stages, but excellent bowling and keeri ' fielding kept down the runs. ■ The only sensation was when the I veteran Andrews had his leg stump removed by Lidd’cutt’s first ball. I Ratcliffe and the colt Jaekson, who went in sixth, made things lively, and , looked like putting up a long stand till the former, in making a big drive, skied the ball from Hartkopf and Morton took a good catch. Jackson who played a confident, stylish punishing game could get no one to stay with him, the last four batsmen adding only i eleven runs, and Hartkopf bagged three i of them. I. MELBOURNE, Dec. 29. I Ryder’s innings was the finest exhibition of clean hitting ever seen on 1 the Melbourne ground. Off successive : balls from Andrews he hit 4,6, 4, 6. I His score, which is his highest, ini eluded six sixes and 33 fours. I The previous world’s record in first- ’ class cricket was obtained by Victoria ■ against Tasmania in 1922-23, when Victoria scored 1059. | Victoria’s hrst limings occupied 633 1 minutes. At one stage, when Ryder and Liddicutt were batting, 50 were scored in 16 minutes, and 100 in 38 minutes. Mailey was the only bowler to trouble thg Victorians the others being unmercifully pasted. 1 LONDON, December 29. | “Sporting Life” in an editorial, says: I “Victoria’s huge score is the culminating point in a succession of large scores, i making .it obvious that the standard of ’ bowling in Australia is possibly lower than for half a century. If the English i team were now touring Australia, it is very improbable that they would lose ‘The Ashes.’ Our own bowling may not be as strong as we would like, but our Australian friends and rivals are in much direr straits.” The “Daily Telegraph,” in an editorial, says: “Victoria’s new record hammers home the lesson of modern tests between Australia and Britain, that the old balance of the game has been destroyed. In first-class games, the greater part cf the crowd goes to see batting. If people like this sort of thing it will be provided, but some will regret the past.” LONDON, Dec. 29.

The “Daily Telegraph” states that the “efforts of England, in the direction of amassing huge scores, are completely overshadowed by Victoria’s record total. Nobody who witnessed the putting together of these mammoth totals will grudge the Australians’ pre-eminance in this direction. When the batting masters the bowling so pronouncedly in a couple of days, the game becomes a tiresome business. It is fervently hoped that the performance in Melbourne will not arouse a spirit of emulation in the breasts of English players. The most refreshing feature of the record is that the score was made in ten and one-half hours, but there is something appalling in century making hourly for ten horn's.”