LATEST CRICKET

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19765, 21 December 1935, Page 8

LATEST CRICKET

M.C.C. TOURISTS. MATCH AT WELLINGTON. HOME SIDE BATTING. (By Telegraph.-r Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Saturday. The weather is ideal to-day for the match between the touring M.C.C. ■cricket team and the Wellington representatives. M.C.C. won the toss, an sent Wellington in to bat. The wicket is easy. rBlandford and McLeod were the opening batsmen and Read, the fast •bowler, opened the attack at the North End, with four men in the slips and one deep stop. Parks, the slow medium bowler, bowled from the other end and was treated with 'considerable respect, his length and change of pace troubling the batsmen,. Blandford survived -an early lbw appeal from Parks. Read was spelled by Sims after three overs which yielded fourteen runs. The first half hour produced twenty-five runs. Blandford, facing Sims at the north end was the first to go, falling a victim to the new lbw rule —26—I—ls.1 —15. Ward was the newcomer but after a single had been added he was smartly caught behind by Griffiths off the first ball from Parks. , Felldlng Very Keen.

Ell joined McLeod. So far the •scoring had been fairly steady, but without much enterprise. The Englishmen’s feilding was very keen. McLeod, after a very cautious exhibition, was clean bowled by Sims by a ball that whipped up off the wicket and two balls later the same bowler had the next batsman Ross, caught and bowled. —29—4—o. Sims’ average was three for four off six overs. Scores were:— WELLINGTON—First Innings. Blandford, lbw, b Sims .... 15 Ward, c Griffiths, b Parks 0 Ell (in) T Lamason (in) 6 Extras 1 4 Total for two wickets .... 42 SHEFFIELD SHIELD. QUEENSLAND v. VICTORIA.' MELBOURNE, Dec. 20. Queensland, in its first Innings against Victoria in the Sheffield Shield match, made 184, and followed on. it has scored 105 for the. loss of ono wicket in the second innings (Allen not out 61, Andrews not out 37). Victoria, in its first innings scored 522 for nine wickets and declared. NEW SOUTH WALES TEAMMATCH WITH SOUTH AUSTRALIA. United Press Assn. —Elec, re]. Copyright. ADELAIDE, Dec. 20. In reply to South Australia’s first innings total of 575, New South Wales, in its first innings, has lost eight wickets for 324 (Little 76, Fallowfleld 54, R. Robinson 102). FRANK TARRANT’S TEAM. MATCH IN INDIA. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Dec. 21, 11 a.m.) NAGPUR, Dec. 20. The Central Provinces, in their first innings against Mr Frank Tarrant’s Australian team, made 121 runs. Oxenham took three wickets for 27 runs, Mair three for 36, and Alexander two for 17. The Australians, In their first innings, had lost two wickets for 64 runs (Wendell-Bill 29) when stumps were drawn.