A BAD OPENING

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 76, 31 March 1933, Page 9

A BAD OPENING

SECtiND CRICKET TEST

XEW ZEALAND COLLAPSE

TWO WICKETS WITHOUT SCORE

BOWES DANGEROUS

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Sensational things happened from the start of the second Test match between M.O.CU and-Ivcw Zealand yi-hon

with the second and third balls of his over Bowes accounted for Mills and • Weir respectively. The score was then two wickets for no runs, New Zealand won the toss and batted - on a good wicket. The weathei/ was perfect, and there was an attendance of about 3000.

'The toams were:— England: Wyatt (captain), Sutcliffe, Paynter Allen, Ames, Brown, Ham-! '- xnond, Yoco, .Mitchell, Duckworth, and Bowes. Now Pago (captain), Dempster, Weir, Mills, Whitelaw, Kcrr,! Badcock, Dunning, Jamos, Freeman, »nd Newman. \ j "Whitelaw and Mills opened. There I ■were dismayed faces when two of the I best batsmen wftnt ' down for none.' Whitelaw set his teeth and took no | chances. Allen sent down a maiden, y and then Howes took his toll, Dempster and Whitelaw wero subdued. Both gave the impression that they wcro just waiting. Whitelaw late" cut ,Bowes to the .-fence, and then in the same over Bo^es took him. clean for 12. The scgro at the luncheon adjournment wa,s six wickets for 101. . It soon bec;wno apparent that Dempster was at home. Mitchell, Bowes, and Voce bore the brunt of the attack, with Allen snd Brown as changes. Mitchell, ' the leg-break spin bowler, was tho" most expensive/ though Dempster had to t watch him. Dempster got shots all - round the wicket, with a partiality for anything on the'leg side. Somo of his ,on-driving was beautiful. 'He brought 100 up by pulling Mitchell across the wicket. Page was batting more quietly, but his 20 was a worthy exhibition. He got one glorious six to squaro-leg. Mitchell tos?ed up a simple "dropper" foj- which Pago fell. He had a go at it, ( and Duckworth whipped oft" tho bails. 1 ' Badcock got all tangled up over one ~£rora Bowes. % At thii stage tho fielding had greatly improved. " I After lunch James paw,a maiden out against Bowes, and then was much at sea against ■ Mitchell. Ho whs beaten by n yorker in Bowel's next , over— seven' for, 103. ; Aftor making doub]o figures Dunning also felj tp Bowes, and at 5.30 the score was 132 for eight wickets. • NEW ZEALAND. First Innings, 'I Mills,- b^ Bowes ~ 0 Whitelaw, b Bowes 12 I Weir, b Bowcg ";.. 0 ! Denipster, not out ' 68 Kerr,'lbw, 15 Voc 10 Pago, st Duckworth, b Mitchell . 20 | Da deoeTc, b Bowes I 1 James, b Bowes 0 1 Dunning, b Bowes 12 ' Newman, not out 1 • .JExtras 9 Total for eight wickets ~..' 133 I