HIGH SCORING.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19144, 29 October 1927, Page 15

HIGH SCORING.

N.Z. CRICKETERS IN SYDNEY FINE N.S.W. INNINGS. (bt cablb—psms association—copyright.) (acstbaliax and n.z. cablb association) (Received October 28th, 7.30. p.m.) SYDNEY, October 28. The weather was fine but dull when New Zealand commenced its match against New South Wales on the cricket ground. The wicket was in good condition, and the attendance in the afternoon was 3000. Kippax won the toss, and elected to bat, sending in Gregory and Phillips, while McGirr and Henderson opened the New Zealand attack. After ten minutes Henderson secured Phillips's wicket with a ball which swung in, the board reading: I—lo.1 —10. Andrews joined Gregory, and after a slow opening Gregory commenced to find the fence. Lowry replaced McGirr with Merritt, but the" change had little effect. Lowry made frequent changes, but both batsmen continued to score merrily, despite the excellent fielding, Gregory stepping forward to hit Merritt hard. Andrews was more cautious, but hit hard at anything that looked likely. Gregory had a narrow escape in the early stages, Dempster throwing himself at full length at a catch, but the ball struck his hand.

Gregory and Andrews went on playing, judiciously mixing hard hits with stolen singles. At lunch tho board showed 192 runs for one wicket.

Gregory took 101 minutes to reach tho century. The batsmen continued to x give a bright display, and the score mounted rapidly. Merritt was particularly expensive, Gregory scoring the first six hit of the. match off him. When the total reached 256 Andrews brought up his century after 119 minutes' play. Gregory had thr«e narrow escapes in succession of being caught. Then Lowry stumped him. The partnership had yielded 262 runs in 125 minutes. Gregory hit two sixes, 20 fours, and batted 135 minutes. Andrews and Kippax kept the field moving till Andrews reached 134. Then Henderson clean-bowled him, the board reading: 329—3. Andrews hit 18 fours and was in 148 minutes, giving an attractive all-round display. Kippax was joined by Jackson and the batsmen found nothing in the bowling to trouble them. They put on 100 runs in 36 minutes, Jaokson's chopping strokes being particularly effective. Tho New Zealand fielding became slack as the afternoon progressed. A quarter of an hour after the tea adjournment, when the total was 505, Jackson succumbed to McGirr, the fourth wicket adding 176 in 72 minutes. Jackson's was .tho most enterprising innings of the day. As he approached the century Kippax became very cautious, and ultimately reached his goal after being 125 minutes at the crease. Shortly afterwards he skied a ball which was accepted by McGirr. Kippax had batted 133 minutes, and the total was 553 for seven ■wickets.

The New South Wales' tail did no do much, the remaining wickets falling for 38 runs. The innings occupied 1278 minutes. New Zealand took the field with 20 minutes to play, but an immediate appeal against the light was upheld. The scores are:—

NEW SOUTH WALES. ' Pirst Innings. J. M. Gregory, st. Lowry, b Mer. ritt • 152 W. Phillips, b Henderson ... 6 T. Andrews, b Henderson .. 134 A. Rippax, c McGirr, b Merritt .. 119 A. Jackson, b McGirr .. ~ 104 G. Morgan," Ibw, b McGirr .. 7 W. Oldfield, c Lowry, b MeGirr .. 0 S. Everett, e Blunt, b Merfitt .. 10 A. Mailey, st. Lowry, b Merritt .. 9 W. J. O'Reilly, c Henderson, b Merritt .. '.'. ... 4 R. McNamee, not out .. .. 1 Extras .. .. ... 25 Total .. .. ..571 Bowling Analysis—McGirr took three wickets for 87 runs, Henderson two for 76, Merritt five for 218, Allcott none for 33, Blunt none for 83, Page none for 42, Dempster none, for 67. (The bowling analysis does not agree with the scores.)

JAMES'S SHOULDER DISLOCATED (AUSTRALIAN A.VD K.S. CABI>E ASSOCIATION.) (Received October 28th, 7.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 28. In the match against New South Wales the New Zealand team was: J. E. Mills, C. S. Dempster, M. L. Page, R. 0. Blunt, K. C. James, T. C. Lowry, C. F. W. Allcott, 0. C. Dacre, H. M. McGirr, W. E. Mcrritt, and M. Henderson; twelfth man, C. Oliver. Fox New South Wales, Watson is twelfth man. James hurt his shoulder, and was replaced at the wickets by Lowry. A subsequent X-ray examination of the shoulder showed that it had been dislocated.