N.Z. Lost Match in Second Hour
MANCHESTER, July 28. Goddard inade clever uae of the only blemish in the wicket, a small rough patch just outside the off-side stump. It Is a remarkable fact tfhat only four runa were scored from him by the righthanders. The rest were recorded by Vivian and Donnelly. New Zealand really lost the match in the second hour of the day when four catclxes were dropped enabling the home side to recover after a sensational collapse. Had tftxe high fielding standard of the fi-x-st hour been maintained England probably would have been out for about 100. New Zealand then almost certainly would have won on form. . The bome team was unlikely to have uscd spin bowlers with so few runa belween the sides. Tt pi-obably will ' be many years before New Zealand will 'have sudh a wonderful chance to win an olfieial Test. Mr. Howard Marshall, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says that New Zealand had tlxe game safely in their Wnds and then let it slip through their fingcrs
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 164, 29 July 1937, Page 6
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