N.Z. WINS EASILY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 198, 7 September 1937, Page 8

N.Z. WINS EASILY

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Kerr Scores 160 Against Minor Counties

SEVEN WICKETS VICTORY (Pronx the Special Correspondent of th«

, with the Team.)

(Eeceived 7, 10.30 a.m.) . GAINSBOROOUGU, Sept. 6. New Zealand won brilliantly with (EEse against ihe Minor Counties. New Zealand scored brightly during tbe jnorning, Kerr and Weir adding 174 at tbe xate of 90 an bour. Kerr played brilliantly, gliding, hooking, cutting and driving freely and strongly. Ha mad© his Mghest score of tbe tour in tbree and a-half hours, bis knock induding 28 fours and on© six. Weir also was aggressive, bis innings including 13 fours and one six, Wallace opened brightly, but was distnissed .with a fine running catcb at tbe boundary. Eoberts was also forceful" till be was snapped, up witb a fine onebanded cateb' close to square-leg. Kew: Zealand lost tbe last eigbt wiekets for 107. Hargreaves, of Yorkshir*^ was quite fast, an.d Benka, of Middlesex, was bowling well-flighted, good-lengtb left-band breaks. Tbe Minor Counties in tbeir second innings were always struggling. Car*on and Gallicban bowled so well tbat four wero out for 660. Carson sometimes was almost as fast as Cowie, .Once be sent a stump 32 paces. Gallicban 's lengtb was perfeet. He made .tbe ball float into. tbe breeze. Tbe remaining wiekets fell quickly. Tbe bowlers were supported by brilliant catching. Carson made two brilliant catcbes in tbe slips and one at tbe boundary and Eoberts a good one in tbe slips. Tbe Kew Zealanders, on going in for a bit, lo'st tbree wiekets cbeaply in tbeir second innings, but scored tbe winning xuns quickly. Among tbe speetators was Lord Liverpool, a former Governor-General. Scores: — KEW ZEALAND, „ Eirst Innings.

Hadlee, l.b.w., b Lund • • • • o Kerr, c Waugh, b Hargreaves".. 160 Weir, c Eougbt-Eougbt, b Waugb 79 Wallace, c Eougbt-Eougbt, b Lnnd 33 Donnelly, Lb.w., b Benka 4 Eoberts, e Hargreaves, b Benka . . 23 Carson, b Benka ................ 0 Lamason, b Benka .............. 0 Gallicban, c Benka, b Hargreaves 6 Lowry, not out 11 Dunning, c Fxanklin, b Hargreaves 8 Extras .................... 18 Total .••••••••••••••••••••• 3o7 "• Bowling analysis — Lund two for T8, HaTgreaves tbree for 82, Nutter none for 35, Benka four for 78, Felton none for 18, Waugb one for 33. Second Innings. Hadlee, c Benka, b Hargreaves . . 6 Lamason, c Benka, b Lund 0 Carson, not out 14 Gallicban, c Hargreaves, b Maxwell 8 WkUace, not out 23 Extras 2 Total for tbree wiekets .... 53 • Bowling analysis — Lund one for 16, Hargreaves one for 24, Maxwell one for 11. , MINOB COUNTIES. First Innings 3l0 Second Innings. Butler, b Gallicban S Bought-Kougbt, l.b.wJt b Gallicban 11 Nutter, b Carson 4 Felton, c Carson, b Donnelly .... 26 Waugb, b Carson S Benka, c Lowry, b Gallichan .... 4 Maxwell, c Carson b Gallichan 0 Poynder, b Carson 3 Branklin, not out 6 " Lund, e Eoberts, b Carson 1 Hargreaves, c Carson, b Gallicban 9 Extras 5 Total 76

O. M. E W. Dunning . . 5 1 22 0 Roberts .... 4 1 7 0 Carson .... 11 3 20 4 Galliehan ... 11.1 4 20 5 Donnelly . . 2 0 2 1 S

Bowling Analysis.