HONOURS EVEN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 49, 21 November 1907, Page 7

HONOURS EVEN.

UPHILL BATTING. ' THE ENGLAND-VICTORIA CRICKET MATCH. DT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'—COPYRIGHT. (Received Nov. 20, 10.25 p.m.) Melbourne, November 20. I The weather was fine, and tho wicket sound and good,- for tho continuation of tho match botweeu tho Englishmen and Victoria. , ( . Tho visitors were .timed to leave by tho Sydney express, and had only till . 4.15 p.m. to pull' up their big deficit of 393 runs., Fighting a stubborn, uphill battle,

they succeeded in making a drawn match. With four wiekots down for 115, the outlook was anything but promising, but Hutchings and Rhodos for the fifth wicket added 107 in just over an hour. Hutchings played exceedingly forcible cricket, and his score included a sixer and .sixteen fours. For the' ninth wickot Hardstaff and Barnes contributed a century, tlio latter contenting himself with keeping up his wicket while Hardstaff rattled up runs. England in the second innings had lost nine wickets for 422 when stumps were drawn. Tho scores aro:— ENGLAND. Second Innings. Jones, c. Carkeek, b. Hazlitt 82 Hobbs, b Tarrant 26 , Young, b Saunders .....' 25 Braund, c Vernon, b Hazlitt 4 Rhodos, c Saunders, b Tarrant ... 40 Hutchings, c Ransford, b Saunders 91 Hayes',' b'Hazlitt 4 : Crawford, lbw b Saunders' ...„ 10 Barnes, c M'Alister, b Hazlitt ... 26 Hardstaff, not out • gg Fielder, not out ; i Sundries \ la

Total for 9 Wickets 422 First innings igg Grand total (320 BOWLING ANALYSIS. . Saunders, 4 wickcts for 138. Hazlitt, 4 wickets' for 88. Warno, 0 for 63. Tarrant, 1 wicket for 57. Vernon, 0 for 53. VICTORIA. First Innings 2.33 Second Innings 403 Grand total ggg Tho Englishmen had thus 77 runs to make to win, and one' wicket to fall. the averages. (by "tiie blade.") The batting and bowling averages of the Saro e «stuowfl nClusioU of tho Batting. ■\t Not AveW. R. Rhodes ... .."7 s ' E i^ s ' r i , f} | 0 - J. Hardstaff 4 '{ H" F. L. Fane 2 n cos L. C. Bi'aund ... 4 n A. O. Jones \ ° 0 §*»' IC. L. Hutchings ... 3 0 us 1011 J. N. Crawford ... 4 0 fP R. A. Young 3 0 no in J. B. Hobbs ... ... 2 0 m un S. F. Barnes ,4 5 f C. mytho . 1 0 8 R J. Humphries 1 q » 2 A. Fielder 2 1 « I E. G. Hares 4■ 0 j(j \ Bowling. . Wkts - Buns. Avoracc A. Fielder 10 leg uFo' J, N. Crawford 15 288 109 C. Blj-the 0 13!) L. O. [iramid 10 210 ■>/« W, E. Rhodes 5 142 m" 8. P) names 11. 304 Vi, E. G. Ilayes 1 50 J. B. Ilobbs, none for 2, also bowled.