Cricket News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 206, 4 March 1896, Page 2

Cricket News.

0 N.S.W. V. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. (Per Pi-oss Association.) Sydnky, March 3. The South Australian second innings closed for 215. Giffen 55, Hill 14, Rcc'rnan 3, Leak 17, Martin 13, McKenzie 0, Jones 2, Travers (not out) 1. Sundries 6. Total 215. Turner took 6 wickets for 35, Conningham 2 for 6H, McKibbin 1 for 76. New South Wales iv the second innings, requiring 187 to win, have lost 1 wicket for 103. McKenzie 20, Iredale (not out) 44, Donnau (not out) 33 ,* sundries, 6. There was a very large attendance aud the weather glorious. The wicket was a bit worn, but played very true. The second innings of South Australia was painfully slow. Giffen was tiresomely patient, and only reached the half- century after batting four hours. He saw the last man in, and then tried to play back to one of Turner's, and was clean "bowled. Hill was attempting tbe same stroke when he, too, lost his wicket fco Turner, just as he nicely opened up. Leak's score was the result of attractive strokes, chiefly at the expense of McKibbon. Turner was the hero of the day, aud never bowled in finer form or with better judgment. Five out of six wickets secured by him were bowled, and for the first two hours he trundled only 12 runs were scored off him. The last five wickets fell to him in succession. The three last wickets added ouly 7 runs. The capture of Giffen was tlie signal for a splendid ovation and the bowler was continually cheered by the public, the majority of whom were greatly disappointed at Turner's exclusion from the eleven, were wildly jubilant as his success, and vociferously J cheered him as the fourteenth man. Kelly kept wickets excellently, only one ball missed him, aDd that was a fast loose one from Conuiugham, which travelled to the boundary. A movement is being started in cricketing circles for the purpose of raising a national testimonial to Turner on the lines of the Grace testi- i monial.