DRAWN GAME LIKELY

Chronicle (Levin), 29 July 1949, Page 5

DRAWN GAME LIKELY

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Fine Knock By Yardley Gives Lead To Yorksbre

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Received Friday, 10 a.m. SHEFFIELD, July 28. The former England' captain. Norman Yardley, with his highest score of the season (134 not out), rescued Yorkshire from an awkward position again New Zealand. With five wickets, including that of ' Hutton, gone for 111 aicer a spell of excellent bowling, he added 131 with Close 51, and Yorkshire with 321 took a lead of 61 over New Zealand on the first innings. liaumg for 50 minutes, New Zealand in their second innings are one fpr 42. Yorxshire, lacking Trueman, had only ten batsmen and without Yardley's grand innings would have been in trouble. Yardley batted easily and well, and in 3 hrs. 35 mins. hit 14 boundaries. In the morning Cave and Cresswell were deadly, and were aided to a certain extent by a drying wicket, for showers had fallen during the night and early morning. uuring the afternoon they lost some of their sting and the pitch returned to its easy pace. Mooney got two more wickets to | reach his 50 for the tour. It was a day of delightful cricket and the Bramall Lane crowd of 17,000 ' (12,978 paid £1419) thoroughly enjoyed themselves, applauded both teams generously and found humour in the inadvertent tfnfles. A drawn game seems likely. Details: — YORKSHIRE. First Innings. Hutton, b Cave 28 Lowson, lbw, b Burke 39 Watson, b Sutcliffe 9 Lester, c Donnelly, b Cresswell 0 Keighley, st. Mooney, b Cresswell 2 Yardley, not out 134 Close, c Cave, b Rabone 51 Wardle, c Cave, b Sutcliffe " 11 Whitehead, st. Mooney, b Burke 19 Brennan, c. Cresswell, b Burke 4 Trueman, absent (hurt) 0 Extras 24 Total ' 321

' NEW ZEALAND. First Innings 26 ! Second Innings. Sutcliffe, c Hutton, b Whitehead H Scott, not out -. ^ Burke, not out ■ 1 Extras 1 Total for one wicket 42

O. , M. R. W. Cresswell .... 43 8 102 2 Cave 32 8 66 1 Rabone 11 2 34 1 Burke 16.1 2 57 3 Sutcliffe 16 7 33 2 Smith 1 Q ° 0

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