NEW ZEALAND LOSES TOSS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 255, 9 August 1937, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND LOSES TOSS.

VISITORS’ EFFECTIVE BOWLING. VIVIAN’S FINE BATTING. (From the special correspondent of the United Press Association with the team). LONDON, August 7. Another “Saturday toss’’ condemning the New Zealand cricket team to spend the day in the field in sweltering heat, gave Essex the advantage on an easy wicket in the pretty ground at Chelmsford. Cowie and Dunning reappeared and howled for long (periods without apparent distress. Their physical fitness was evidently not impaired by their recent enforced idleness. Essex made a fine start, the second century being hoisted with only one wicket down. Page dissolved a productive partnership, andi Cowie and Dunning, using the second new ball, dismissed the next four quickly, five wickets falling for 29 runs, including Nicholls, a member of Gilligan’s team. Dunning had a fine spell after tea, taking three wickets for three runs, including two with successive balls. (The Essex innings, which once promised a very high score, finished abruptly with quite a moderate total considering the excellence of the wicket, the easiness of which made more praiseworthy the effectiveness of Cowie and Dunning. New Zealand batted only _an hour, Vivian giving a .remarkable display, hitting eight fours, two sixes, and only four singles. His first 50 was made in half an hour. The sixes were both out of the ground, and the 5000 spectators were warmly appreciative. Hadlee s steady innings looked almost slow by comparison. Scores: —■ ESSEX. First Innings. Wilcox, st Tindill, b Page 113 Eastman, c Weir, b Cowie ... Avery, c Hadlee, b Dunning ... 46 Taylor, c Lamason, b Dunning ... 0 Nichols, lbw, b Dunning 12 Vere-Hodge, lbw, b Cowie 0 Belle, b Cowie 1® Wade, c Page, b Dunning 4 P. Smith, not out 3 R. B. Smith, b Dunning 0 EVans, c and b Dunning 4 Extras ... 13 Total 256 Bowling Analysis: Cowie 29 overs 12 maidens, 56 runs, 3 wickets; Dunning 29.3-9-71-6, Vivian 26-8-49-0,. Weir 6-0-24-0, Donnelly 6-1-20-0, Page 3-0-23-1. NEW ZEALAND. First Innings. Vivian, lbw, b Nichols ... ••• 01 Hadlee, not out ••• 3 ® Wallace, not out ... 2 Tbtal for one wicket at stumps 101 Bowling: Nichols one for 17, R. Smith none for 34, P. Smith none for 50