CRICKET.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1924, Page 3

CRICKET.

[Reuters Teleouams.J FIRST TEST. AFRICAN COLLAPSE. ALL OUT 30. (Received this day at 11.2-3 a.in.) LONDON, June Id. ENGLAND Ist. Innings. Sutclill'o, b. l’arker 61 Hobbs, Lb.w. b. Bhtnekenburg .... 7G Woolley, e. Ward, b. Darker 61 Hendren, e. Nour.se, b. Darker ... 71 Chapman, b. Darker 8 Fender, e. Taylor, b. Blaekenburg 66 Tate, e. Taylor. I>. Darker I!) Kilner c Degler 59 Gilligan b Degler 13 Wood b Darner 1 Darker (not out) 8 Extras 16 • v Total 138 Bowling analysis, incomplete. AFR TCA—First I linings. Catterall li Gilligan U Bus.skind e Kilner b Tate 3 Taylor b Tate 7 , Nourse l.b.w. b. Gilligan I Blaekenberg b Tate 4 Commarie (noL ottT) 1 Dean l.b.w. Giltigun 2 Nupon b Gilligan 0 Degler b Tate 0 Ward li Gilligan 1 Darker l.b.w. Gilligan 0 Extras 11 Total 30 Bowling.—Gilligan 6 for 7, Tate 4 for 12. The weather was line and warm and attendance three thousand. England's score was made in 323 minutes. Africans innings lasted only 1!) minutes. The first three wickets were down after seventeen balls. Gilligan and Tate were most destructive. The former yorked Nupeu and got Darker leg before, each with the first hall. Tate's lirsCTiair “in test cricket disposed or Susskind aTTom Kilner took at short leg. BoTTi howlers were enthusiastically cheered. A possible explanation of the African failure is that they wore batting on a hard fast wicket after a mouth of wet wickets. LONDON, June 16. A FBI C A—Seen lie 1 Xu a i ngs. Taylor, c. Tate 31 Commaille, e. Hendren. h. Tate ... 2!) Susskind, li. Gilligan AI Nourse, e. Wood, h. Gilligan I Catterall (not out) 62 Blaekenberg (not out) V.: Total for -I wickets 271 Stumps were then drawn. Analysis:—England's innings. I’r Ivor 6 for 152, Degler 2 for 106. Rh-ckeii-btirg 2 for 05. Neupen and Xi.'ir-c * also bowled, but their averages are not shown. The afternoon was hot and occasionally cloudy. The attendance increased to 10,00(1. Tate and Gilligan opened the bowling. The former dismissed .Taylor with a low left handed catch after batting fifty minutes. The second ceHtury appeared, n.s a result of 223 minutes' play. F.nglaml’.s score is a record against Africans in this country, and the Afrionus score is the lowest total over made in England in any test. Commaille fell to a smart catch by Hendren in the slips, the ball flying off the batsman’s m glove.