CLOSURES IN TESTS
RARE OCCURRENCES DRAMA IN MELBOURNE Never before in the history of Test cricket between" England and Australia have there been two declarations in one day, as was the case in Melbourne on Saturday, January 2. In fact, only once before in 74 ; games in Australia, where there is no time-limit on Tests, has an innings been declared closed. That was in the first Test ever played at Brisbane, in December, 1928, when Chapman declared England's second innings closed at 342 for eight, and left Australia with ,742 runs to win. Australia lost by 675 runs! The first declaration in EnglandAustralia contests was in the thirtysixth Test, at Lord's, in 1893. However, in Tests between Australia and the West Indies, Grant, the West Indian captain, twice declared his innings closed in the fifth Test in Sydney, in 1931. West Indies won. And ln the opening Test of the England-West Indies cerles, at Barbados in 1934-35, both Wyatt and Grant declared — the former while England was behind°on the first innings. _____________
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 7, 23 January 1937, Page 14
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