DONNELLY BATS WELL

Chronicle (Levin), 5 August 1948, Page 5

DONNELLY BATS WELL

—Reuter,

Warwickshire Fails Against Australian Bowling

(N.Z.P.A.-

Covyright) *

ReceiVed Thursday, 9.25 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 4. Though the drying wicket was all in favour of the bowlers, Australia veathered 110 minutes of the strong Warwickshire attack and, with two wickets down for 90 at stumps, need oniy '48 tomorrow to xevel the scores. The New Zealander, Martin Donnelly, whose two previous knocks against Australia have not been rnipressive, alone played the AusLraiiap bowling witn assurance an'd enterprise. He hooked rising bahs from Lindwail with an ea.se that i'ew batsmen in Fngland have thus far drsplayed. Donnelly batted for 85 minutes and hit five fours. Ple wore a New Zealand cap. Lindwail was Australia's most consistent and hQstne bowler. He took three wickets for 13 after itmch. Details: — WARWICKSHIRE First Innings Taylor, c McCopl, b Loxton . . 10 Thompson, c McCool, b '» Loxion 1 7 Ord, st. Saggers, b Johnson . . 6 Donnelly, b Johnston ........ 28 Dollery, ibw, b Lindwail ...... 2 Kardar, c Saggers, b Lindwail . . 4 Mandsiey, c Saggers, b Lin'dwall 0 Cannings, not out 18 Spoonsr, b Johnston 20 Pritchard, b Johnson 14 HoJies, ibw, b Johnston ..... 5 Extras • • •> M Total I38 Bowling analysis: Lindwail, three ; for 27; Johnston, two for 41; John- • son, three for 28; Loxton, two for 1 28. AUSTRALIA c First Innings Morris, b Hoilies • 32 Brown, b Hoilies 33 Bradman, not out • 20 Hassett, not out .............. 3 Extras 2 Total, for 2 wkts 90 Bowling analysis: Pritchard, none for 27-; Cannings, none for 17; Hoi- ' lies, two for 23; Kardar, none for 21. AUSTRALIAN A\ERAGFS _ - Three Australian hatsmen — Bradman, Morris and Brown — have now scored over 1000 runs each ; during the present tour of Eng1 land. Bradman, in addition to ' being the most prolific runJ gatherer, also heads the individual , averages. Miller, one of the fast men, heads ; the bowling averages, but W. Johnston has taken the most wickets. ! . Details of the averages up to and ' including the match against 1 Derbyshire are as under

Catches: Tallon, 20; Saggers, 18'; Hassett and Johnson, 17 each; Barnes and Miller, 16 each; Harvey, 13; Brown and McCool, 12 each; Lindwail, 11; Johnston, Loxton and Ring, 8 each; Morris and Bradman, 7 each; Hamence, 5; and Toshack, 2.

Iks. X.O. U.S. Agg. Avg Bradman 22 2 187 1713 85.6 Morris 22 1 290 1504 71.6 Loxton 16 3 159 870 66.9 Brown 19 1 200 1153 64.0 Hassett 20 3 139 926 54.4 Barnes 19 2 176 893 52.5 Harvey 20 5 112 784 52.2 Miller 19 2 202 867 51.0 Saggers 9 2 104 195 27.8 Hamence 16 2 92 39.0 27.4 Tallon 10 2 53 217 27.1 Lindwall 14 2 77 313 26.0 McCool 14 3 76 276. 25.0 Johnston 14 6 24 166 20.7 Johnson 16 1 80 304 20.2 Ring 11 3 53 120 15.0 Toshack 11 3 20 76 9.5

Batting

Runs WRts. Avg Miller 658 44 14.9 Hamence 102 6 . 17.0 Johnston 1375 76 18.0 McCool 772 42 18.3 Lindwall 921 49 18.7 Johnson 1216 60 20.2 Toshack 1036 50 20.7 Loxton 509 24 21.2 Ring 930 42 22.0 Morris' 76 2 " 38.0 Barnes 82 2 41.0

Bowling