SAVED BY MOLONEY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 37, 6 November 1937, Page 3

SAVED BY MOLONEY

Bradman at His Best ADELAIDE; Nov. 5. ' Scpring only 151 in the first innings the .New Zealanders did not openj their Australian tour auspiciously! (against South Australia at the Adelaide; Oval torday. Only 3000 saw the New Zealanders :play their first match here' since 1925. Anxious about their form after the long sea voyage the visitors were tardy at the start, only 11 being scored in the first half hour. It took 156 minutes to; reach the first hundred. Most of thei ■batsmen played the fast attack confi-i i dently, but the slow bowlers, Grimmett! and Ward, were the bogies. Before1 lunch Grimmett had three for eight. .The visitors would have been ia sadi straits but for the Weir-Moloney partnership of 47. Weir 'a innings yielded; 38 in 84 minutes. Although he was, content to wait for the loose balls his stylish stroking prQmised bigger things on the Anstralian tour. He lifted Ward and Grimmett into the grandstand for two sixes but was caught on the boundary when attempting another big hit offi Ward. Moloney's solid 25, made in 78 minutes, included one four. The fast bowler Williams skittled Moloney's stumps when he was 20 but it was a noball. The captain, Page, strove to keep the side together With a patient innings, but the Test slow bowler Ward proved too much of a matea for the tailenders, taking four of the last five wickets. Steady bowling and eiceptionally; keen fielding on the part of the New Zealanders kept South Australia 's score1 down. The visitors became'particularlyi heartened with the wickets of Walker! and Riehardson. ■ The team's ambition since its arrival! in Adelaide has been to see. Bradman in action. When he joined Badeock at two. for 38 he jumped straight into his brightest^ scoring mood and fifty came in 61 minutes.. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. - '* | First Innings. Walker, lbw, b Parsloe . . .... . . 9 Riehardson,, b vjvian ...... >. 9 Badcock, not out 34 Bradman, not out ... II j Extras i. ....... . l: l \ ' • * ' j Total for .two wickets .. . . >,• 64

O. M. R. W. ICowie ....... 7 2 17 0 Parsloe .. ... .. 6 0 19 1 Roberts ....... 2 0 4 0 .'Vivian 6 3 17 1 Moloney ...... 1 0 6 0 i

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