CRICKET

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1921, Page 1

CRICKET

THE FIFTH TEST. ENGLAND’S BIG SCORE. UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS. 'Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 15. The weather was dull and unsettled and pitch excellent. Mead and Randham resumed their unfinished innings Mailey and Gregory being the bowlers. Mailey immediately had Mead in difficulties, but one lucky shot behind the wicket realised four. The batsmen began forcing the game, stealing many clever singles, though the well set field made scoring shots difficutlfc. LONDON, August 15. Teased by Mailey’s googlies, Mead tried turning him to leg side for singles while Randham played him in front of the wicket. Both were more at ease with Gregory. A double change was made at 173, by McDonald and Armstrong. Runs came more freely off the new bowlers. Mead reached fifty in 115 minutes. Shortly after McDonald broke the partnership which had added sixty-two in an hour, 5 for 191. Tennyson began by lathing out. Mead afraid of falling into Armstrong’s logside trap, stepped out and drove him. Rums oamo .steadily, butt the fielding never slackened. Tennyson was bent on rapid scoring, but many of his punching strokes were not allowed to reach tho boundary. Mailey. at second slip, dropped Mead when seventy five off McDonald. Although many risky shots went over the heads of slips, both managed to score freely off McDonald, behind point. Mailey relieved Armstrong at 236 and Tennyson attempting to hook McDonald. was struck on the chest and piny was stopped for a time. The hatting continued of the brightest. hoth going for the howling freely. Mead reached his century in 199 minutes. Gregory relieved McDonald and Mead then gave Mailey a veryhot return at 104, which he dropped. Frequent powerful drives delighted the crowd who had not seen the Australian bowling so daringly attacked before. Armstrong replaced Mailey at 281. The partnership put on one hundred in eighty minutes and at luncheon the score was 300.

Mniley had n finger of his right hnnc split, when he dropped the catch of Mend. McDonald and Gregory howler after Inneh. The rapid scoring eon tinned, and Tennyson reached 50 in 9f minutes. Immediately after he hit out blindly and his stumps were scattered This ended a partnership which had add'd 121. fi—sl 312. Mead 130. Fender was caught in the same over liter shakily surviving three halls. Hitch was next, hut was unhappy igainst- the fast howlers and mainly ashed out aimlessly. After the adjournment, the hatting became distinctly slower. Hitch played on .McDonald, who had taken three wickets within half an hour. 3—l B—— Douglas justified his late arrival by proving lie could not play a forcing game, lie left Mead to improve the rate of scoring by crisp cuts and hooks. I’ellew was specially brilliant, in the iield stopping many hard shots. Mead became 150 in. 205 minuses. A great cheer went up, when Douglas, alter 2 1 mimjJes, gut his first single, lit; took 10 minutes to make lour. Doth howlers were constantly beating him. Mead became allected by go slow germ and play dwindled to a repetition of Saturday’s hatting. When the innings was declared. Armstrong shook Mead’s hand. LONDON, Aug. 15. Collins and Hnrdsley opened for Australia. Hitch and Douglas leading the attack. Collins began brightly, hooking Douglas to the ropes. In Hitch’s second over he was struck on the knee and rolled over in pain, but survived an ap-

peol for leg-before. Bardsley was slo' in starting, and tlion gave- a delightfu display of cutting and driving. Collin was hooking beautifully, and when elev on snicked Hitch into Brawn’s hands and was lot off. Bardsley was the firsi to go. Playing forward to Hitch, h< was badly beaten and his off-stump re moved. 1—22 -33. Macartney who followed had a luck; escape when two, Woolley at first slif dropping him off Hitch. He continue! to shape pluekily, and runs came slowly. Collins being twenty-five minutes without scoring. This spell was broker by a single, while Macartney was a quarter of an hour in making 3. The latter then got going against Douglas with several fine drives. Fifty had appeared in fifty-five minutes, when Collins in attempting to get Hitch behind the wicket had his bail flicked off. 2 14—54. Andrews, who came iu:.t, oper.:. 1 with rare dash, and caused a double change of bowling. Fender and Parkin came on. the latter bowling fast. Through bad light worrying them, they frequently mistimed shots. The fielding generally' was fairly clean, Hitch at short-leg having a lot of runs to stop. The pair added thirty in 20 minutes, both showing scant respect to Fender, and the century appeared in eighty-five minutes, Macartney’s share being 34. Hitch then relieved Parkin, and with improved light the runs came fast, including numerous boundaries. The crowd was especially appreciative of Andrews’ square-leg strokes off Parkin to the ropes, which he made time and time again. Both men showed masterly cricket, and the various howling changes did not affect the scoring. Andrews took fifty minutes to reach 50, and-Macartney took 120 for the same number, and 150 appe-ared in 120 minutes. Just as they appeared likely to play out time, two minutes before stumps would have boon drawn, Honglas bent Macartney’s defence. The attendance numbered 20,000,