ONE M.C.C. WICKET FOR 60

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 58, 24 March 1937, Page 5

ONE M.C.C. WICKET FOR 60

-Press Association. )

Match With N.Z. Team at Wellington WORTHINGTON OUT

(By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, This Day. Bright, intenmittent simshine foliowing heavy overmght rain put the wicket at the Basin Eeserve in fair condition for the M.O.O. v. New Zealand match'. Farnes stood down from the M.C.C. team and Copson was twelfth man. Lamason is not playing for New Zealand, and Donnelly is twelfth man. Allen won the toss and Wyatt and Worthington opened to Cowie and Boberts. Both batsmen conflned themselves to singles after Cowie had bowled a maiden. Wyatt gave a difficult chance to mid-on when oue in Boberts 's first over. Both Wyatt and Worthington were finding a gap backward of point jtor long singles and' ten came np in the first quarter of an hour. Worthington entered double figures with a hook to the leg fence off Cowie, the first four of the game. Twenty were on the board at the end of the first half-hour, th8n Yivian xelieved Cowie, who had bowled five overs for eleven. Dunning epelled Boberts after he had bowled seven overs for 14.

A boundary to Wyatt of? Dunning put up 30. With the total at 33 Worthington, who had scored 15, snicked a rising ball from Yivian to Boberts in the slips. Details; — • MABYLEBONE, First Innings. Wyatt, not out 31 Worthington, c Boberts, b Vivian 15 Hardstafl, not out 10 Extras 4 Total for one wicket ........ 60

At 2.45 o'dock England had lost two wickets for 114 runs, Wyatt being 68 not out, Kshlock 4 not out, Worthington 15 and Hardstafl 22. Vivian had taken both wickets at a cost of 32 runs.