CRICKET
LANCASHIRE v. THE REST. LONDON, Saturday. The champion county, Lancashire, playing The Rest, made in their first innings 206 (DucltAvortli 60), BoAves taking four for 73 and Verity four for 60. _ The Rest lost nine Avickets for 385 (Walters 79, Leyland 182). AUSTRALIAN TEAM. BATTING AVERAGES. (Notes by “The BoAvler.”) The folloAAdng are the batting averages of the Australian cricketers (uoav in England), and avlio have completed
The last match of the tour, against the North of Scotland Cricket Association, is not included in the above averages, as it Avas purely a holiday game against second class cricket. The tour has been a most successful one, especially as the Australian cricketers regained tho ‘ ‘ Ashes. ’ ’ The Australians lost only one match, and that Avas the second Test. The 1930 tour Avas just as successful, as only one match Avas lost, and that a Test. „ , Bradman, as in the 1930 tour, was the only batsman to secure more than 300 runs in an innings. , During the tour the folloAving threefigure innings Avere played for the Australians: — McCabe (S): 240, 192, 142, 137, 124, 108, 10S*, 105*. Bradman (7); 304, 244, 206, 160, i 49 , 140, 132. . Ponsford (5): 281'*, 266, 229*, 181, l-o. BroAvn (5): 119, 113, 105, 105, 100 . Woodfull (3): 227*, 172*, 131. Kippax (2): 250, 101*. Chipperfield (2): 175, 116*. Darling (1): 117. *Signifies not out. The above represents a total of 33 centuries made during the tour. In the 1930 tour there Avere 23 centuries. BODY-LINE DIFFICULTY. (Received Monday, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, Sunday. A solution of tho body-line difficulty Avill be sought at a round-table discussion at Lords on 20th September, to Avhich the Australians are invited. This is expected to he a prelude to a definite Marylebone pronouncement.
their tour: — In. N.O. Runs. Aver. Bradman Ponsford . 28 . 30 . 36 3 5 7 2099 1911 2001 83.96 76.44 69 Kippax W oodf ull Chipperfiekl ... . 24 . 2S . 26 . 38 5 4 4 3 1087 1341 894 1342 57.21 55.87 40.63 38.34 . 21 5 557 34.81 . 33 i 1061 33.15 Oldfield . 18 4 313 ■■ 22,35 .0 ’Reilly Bromley Grimmett Ebeling Wall FlcetwoodSmith . 19 22 . 21 . 20 12 . 13 8 1 3 1 3 6 243 416 279 278 84 24 22.09 19.80 15.5 14.63 9.33 3.42
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19340917.2.38
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Daily Times, 17 September 1934, Page 5
Word Count
377CRICKET Wairarapa Daily Times, 17 September 1934, Page 5
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in