CRICKET.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 511, 19 May 1909, Page 7

CRICKET.

SURREY £91: AIISTRffiSWmSTART, V/KKET WET BUT FIRM- ' WHITTY AND RUSHBY BOWL WELL. (by TBLKaairH—passaisadcuTioK—corTnioirr.l tondon, May 17. Play in tho match Surrey V. Australia, which began at Konnington Oval to-day, was delayed by rain. Tho was cold. On the rain clearing off, tJbo match began, in. tho presence of about five thousand Bpcc-" tators. ■ . '■ . Tho following comprised' the Surrey team.: Rushby, Crawford, Curwon, Hayward, Hobbs, Hayes, Loes, Marshal, Strudwiok, Spring, and Hitch; Crawford, tho Surrey captain, won tha toss, and elected to bat on a firm wickot. At drawing of stumps, Surrey had mad© 191 in the first innings), and Australia had lost four wickots for 75. Tho scores' are: ' ~v . SURREY. . VISST toKIKGS. Hayw&rd, b.Noblo ... ..;' ... 27 Hobbs, b. Armstrong ...... ... 44 Hayes, b, -Armstrong __.... 83 .■' Marshal, c. Armstrong, b. fWrtty ... 37 Crawford, c. Macalister, b. Macartney 29 Curwon, b. Whitty ... ... ... 0 Spring, c. Trumpor, b. Whitty ... ... 5 tiltch, not out ... .... ... ... 5 Ijjcoa, o. Cotter, b. Macartnoy .;; ... '0 Strudwiok, b. Whitty ... „; >■' ... 4 Rushby, b.'.Whitty .„ ....... 0 Sundries , ... ■ ~, 7 Total i ... ... ... ... ... 191 . ; ' Bowlino Anaiteis. ,Whitty, five wiokote for 36; Macartney, two for 44; Cotter, 0 for 27; Noble; one for '32; Armstrong, two for 45. \ ■':, .. AUSTRALIA. Viobt: JtonNoa. ; Trumper, b. • Lees ... ... ... 2 ' Bardsley, not out ... ' ... .„ .-'«., 86 Noble, b., Rushby ... '«..... Armstrong, c. Strudwiok, b. Rushby „. 3 Hansford, c., Strudwiok, b. Rushby ... 2 Macalister, not out ... ' ... u. 0 . Jilxtras ... •....,..: ... ■.;■,„■;'6 ' '■ Total for four wickets ... ," .„ 75 Burroy;s Innings. Hoyward, who opened with Hobbs as rnY partner, played a very quiet inniugs, taking 105 iunutcis to make his 27., Hobbs showed : ncat and varied play; his score of 44"included six .fourers.;, Hayes's innings (33) : ',''..' free and stylish. . . • ; Tho first wicket 'fell, for 101; thei third '.wickot fell for 109.. • . play ,was uneven,;, though his score-of 37 included some good drives. Crawford (29). mndo 'a. wretched start, and ' ;was missed before scoring ; by Cotter VoU Noble.. His partnership with Marshal lasted forty minutes. . With the fourth, wicket down for : 178, : Crawford improved,'.indulging in some powerful driving, but'the wickots then fell,fast Whitty secured his five wickets with the last nineteen-balls, off which two ■ fourers ■.were scored. . . Rushby Cots Noble, > Armstrong, and Batu> ford Iri Successive Overs. ;'.".' (Beo. May 18,-5 pjn.) ' Trumper and Bardsley opened tho Aus-> tralians' innings. When Trumper had mado' ai couple, .Lees yorked his middle stump; ;Bardslov_ was good all round tho.wicket. .-.,' ', Rushby's first three overs proved 'disastrous to tho visitors. In Iris first over ho seourod'Nobld, who had ..batted soundly for fifty minutes. In bis second over Strudwiok took Armstrong low onthe off side, and ho: repeated the same catch brillantly. off Bansford, in Rushby's third over. i ■■'..■' The light was bad*: , . ' [Rain has made the Surrey match decidedly interesting, as; far as the first day's cricket is concerned. The wicket, immediately after rain, ; is generally considered, easy for the batsmen, provided a deluge'has not'set in. : The constant pounding' of the pitch dovolops-a cnttjnzmp process, which enableS'tha bowler, to mats the'ball "talk." Tho first five batsmen for Surrey were ablo. to 6coro, but the tail probably hod-to contend with a'patchy wicket, plus Whitty. The performances of the 1 earlier batsmen on the colonial side, Trumpor, Noble, Armstrong, and Kansford, further support tho * ■'■'. argument that the wicket was,'at that stage, in favour of tho bowlors. ■ The fact that the light was'bad, at.tho close of the day, at this .period of an English summer, leaves'some doubt for the weather conditions on the second day, Loveson-Gowor and Ducat retired from the Surrey team in favour of A. W,' Spring, and! T. Rushby.' ; The formor. player attracted the' attention of tho Surrey authorities in 1902, and .' 'was placed on the ground staff at tho Oval. , Last season Spring: gave a oouplo of Jessopian exhibitions of batting, when ho scored 135' against Oxford Univorsity, out-of 178, 'in an hour and forty minutes, and 170 against Berkshire. Spring, is-considered .'a batsman with' a strong defence, in combination 'with good finishing powors on both sides of tho wicket. He bowls niedinm pace, with a good length, andean generally got wickets. Rushby bowls a medium to fast ball. In 1007, Leicestershire requirod 130 to defeat Surrey,. but this trundler 'settled the argument- by notching six wickets for 23—thei side wont out for 90, Cotter was in a generous mood when he let off CrawfordjiNoblos conversation with his fellow-citizen would not turn on the Board of Control and its sledge-hammer motheds. Strudiriek .was'"-, out in Australia as Second string' to A. A. Lilley, when Warner captured The Ashes in 1903-01. The Surrey keeper may have a chance ' in the "Tests," but his weak batting, compared to that of his brainy confrere, will no doubt bo criticised by the Solection Committee In the event, of no further rain falling, tho Australian' score may bo expected.to bo ahead of the Surrey total. Tbo message to-day from "The Villago" will.bo of more than passing interest, '.. as tho game will bo shorn of its mild excitement, if any more postponements: are found necessary. Bardsley, so far, hns prevented an Australian debacle, such as Whitty caused in ;tho ranks of tho Surrey "tail."] .' '. • WELLINGTON BOY'S DOUBLE -■'.;■ CENTURY,; ■■■-'■ - Uohdon, May 17. D, C. Collins, a Now Zealnudor; scored 113 in tho, first innings, and ' 138',' in tho ' second, in the Cambridgb senior match. ' ' ■[Mr. D. C, Collins, only son of Dr. W. B. Collins, M.L.C., of Wellington, is 21 'years of ago, and formerly attended ' Wollingt'on College. Ho wont Homo in 1907.]