SOUTH AFRICAN TEAM

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 2, 4 January 1939, Page 9

SOUTH AFRICAN TEAM

RESPONSE TO M.C.C. SCORE

TEST AT CAPE TOWN

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) (Received January 4, 11.30 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, January 3. On the third day of the second cricket Test England's first innings score, was taken from 553 for eight wickets to 559 for nine wickets, when the closure was applied. South Africa had made. 213 for; six at stumps (Nourse not out 74). The weather was sunny and the wicket in good order when play was resumed this morning. .Wright (27) and Fames (1) continued their overnight partnership, but Wright was dismissed off the third ball of the day. The batting of the South Africans was oi a highly defensive nature, only 26 runs being scored in the first hour. Hammond fruitlessly and repeatedly changed his bowlers. Mitchell batted dourly for 255 minutes in scoring 42 runs. Nourse, however, and Balaskas (who hit Verity for four successive boundaries) livened up the batting towards the close. Details:— ENGLAND. First Innings. Hutton, b, Gordon 17 Paynter, lbw, b Langton 1 Gibb, c Wade, b Gordon 58 Hammond, b Davies 181 Ames, b Gordon 115 Edrich, b Gordon 0 Valentine, lbw. b Gordon 112 Verity, b Langton 29 Wright, c Nourse, b Langton .... 33 Fames, not out 1 Extras 12 Total for nine wickets (dec.) 559 Bowling.—Davis took one wicket for 77 runs, Langton three for 117, Gordon five for 157, Balaskas none for 115. Mitchell none for 81. SOUTH AFRICA. v First Innings. Van Der Byl, c Valentine, b Verity 37 Rowan, b Wright 6 Mitchell, b Wright ; 42 Nourse, not out 74 Briscoe, lbw, b Goddard 2 Wade, c Edrich, b Verity 0 Langton, lbw, b Goddard 10 Balaskas, not out 28 Extras 14 Total for six wickets ; 213 Bowling.—Fames 'took no wickets for 29 runs, Edrich none for 6, Goddard two for 43, Wright two for 66, Verity two for 55.