CRICKET.
ENGLAND V. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. 0.V81.E ASSOCIATION] ADELAIDE, Nor. 6. Tho weather was ideal for the cricket match. Tho son dried off the wicket splendidly. The attendance was 10,000. Russell (101) arid Hearne (46) resumed batting to the bowling of Thurgarland and Phillips. The batsmen opened cau. tiously. Hearne was on the defensive and his fifty took 80 minutes. The scorinrr was not commensurate 'with the weakness of tho bowling. At 229 Pellew and Richardson effected a double change. Hearno drove the last named to the long on boundary first hit. Hearne was badly missed by Stirling at squaro led when he was seventy. The batsmen were getting single strokes principally. When he was 147 Russell lifted one from Smith, high to the boundary, but Rundell badly missed the cntch. Seventeen were scored off Smith’s over of slow googlies. Three hundred was posted for 226 minutes batting. Russell attempting a hard hit, missed and returned the ball to Snfith. His 156 included seventeen fours, ntid one 6. His principal scoring shot was to the on side. ■ Hendren joined Hearne. Tho last named improved since his escape, his drivihg and cutting strokes being superb. Hendren - took fifty minutes to reach double figures. Hearne brought four hundred up for. 307 minu-
tes play. When 182, Hearno lifted Phillips’ to midotf, and the tea adjournment followed ,with the score at 3 wickets for 468. Hearno had been brilliant since lunch. His score included twenty, two boundaries. 500 did not take long to appear. When Hcndren was 79, he jumped out to one from Smith, missed, and was stumped by Ambler. Parkin got out in a similar manner, almost immediately. The innings was then declared at 5 wickets for 512. Pellew and Smith for South Australia, put on fifty in thirty-five" minutes. Seven overs realised only three runs, Parkin and Hearne were the bowlers. ENGLAND Ist. INNINGS., Hobbs, e. Pellew b. Smith 48 Russell, e. and b. Smith 156 Hearne, o. Philips b. Smith ... 182 Hendren, s. Ambler, b. Smith 79 Parkin, s. Ambler, b. Smith ... 0 Makepeace, (not out), 38 Extras 9 Total for 5 wickets (innings declared closed) 512 SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S 2nd INNINGS. Pellew, (not out) 33 Smith, (not out) ..., 15 Extras 2 Total for no wickets 50
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1920, Page 1
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