CRICKET.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1925, Page 1

CRICKET.

tCKTEtr.IAK cable association. SECOND TEST MATCH. At ELBUURNE. January 1. Ther ■ was ideal weather with a perfect .wicket for the second test cricket match. Forty-five thousand were present, early in the day. including the Ooveruor-Oeneral. The lirst appearance of Tate, Sutcliffe and T.vldcsley in Melhourno was a feature of the match. Collins was again lucky in winning the toss. lie elected to bat, opening the innings himself with liardsley. The score was begun by liardsley with a single off Douglas. Tate was swerving. Collins got a painful knock on the leg off Douglas. J!e missed one from Tate which went perilously close to the leg stump when lie was four. Collins drove Douglas to the boundary. A few singles were sneaked and half an hour’s play brought eighteen on the board. Collins made some spectacular leg strokes in Tate's sixtli over, when an appeal was made for a catch behind Collins. The umpire was slow in giving his decision, which was favourable to the howler. Collins looked surprised. liardsley reached double figures by driving oil Douglas. Arthur Richardson filled the vacant crease. Tate had now taken one for seven, and Cillignn and [lemlrcn were lidding brilliantly. At thirty-four a double change was made in the howling, Tyldcsley and Cillignn replacing Douglas and ‘late.

A. Richardson was playing Tyldcsley with confidence, and cut him for lour, lie could not regain his crease bolore a smart return from Hobbs. Lbll/1.. Rousford joined liardsley. who tipped Cilligan’s next hall to Stiudwick. H/19747.

Taylor was the next man in. Tate howled the last over before lunch, and shared the morning’s honours with Cillignn who had one for Id. Fonsford ami Taylor carried the score to sixty. The attendance now was sixty thousand. Taylor was unusually qiiicl when facing (lilligan, hut .Ronslord prettily cut the fast howler lor a brace. lyhloslev howled in place of Tate at sev-enty-two. Taylor took thirty-live minutes to make six runs. Ponsfonl readied twenty hy culling Gitiigan for two. Taylor skied one over Tate’s head, making Ids score fourteen for lift y minutes’ hatting. Roth batsmen were taking no chances. Taylor snicked Tate for a single, bringing the total to a hundred for MO minute’s play.

When Rousford was thirty-seven, ho drove one to Chapman at deep-mid-on the fieldsman Just failing to hold it. .Meanwhile Taylor, playing with his customary dash, entered the thiilies hv driving Tate to the boundary, lie now was close to Rousford, having scored twenty, in twenty-three minuter, and the partnership nut on sixty-mno runs in an hour. Taylor was using every stroke. Ilearne played Douglas and Ronslord reached fifty with a single, and the partnership had now yielded a hundred runs. When Ronslord was sixtyfour Tyldcsley at mid-on missed a fast Fhot.. 'Taylor pulled Tyldcsley to the fence and brought his fifty UR in R’d minutes. \t (lie ten adjournment the score w;|l . ;j ip;!. ()n resuming; Douglas and Tate acre howling with a m-v. ball. Two hundred came up, ami when Taylor appeared set lor a century. Hobbs brilliantly threw his wicket down with a ligid ning return. 'I he retiring man hatted 12* minutes and hitthree boundaries, i (2 A)'-. Ibe 11,l l,u ‘“ nershiu added. Wil. Australia was now in an oiiviaMo position. v Richardson joined Ronslord. "ho was'now eighty. At 225 Cdligan howled, and Douglas was persevered with, though his figures were (I for Ronslord reached ninety by squate cutling Cdligan for a single. Y ; Richardson got his next through tile slips to the ""boundarv, following if up hy gcU.ii,g two singles nil the same bowlc- this bringing his score to lwenL\. Runs ford roaehed the century in 'p minutes, his lent evoking a ltin.iie.i demonstration and he was congratulated hv Cillignn. He has esfahhshed an Australian record hy scoring centuries in his first two test matches. V; Richardson, batting soundly, pulled T fen rue for a single, making thirly fo Ins. credit. The Englishmen were tired after their heavy day. A\ uodey bowled a maiden when the score was SNA Ronslord am! Richardson earned the total to three humlred when stumps were drawn. Australia thus having a good start. AFSTRATd A—First Innings. I’dlli'iis, e Klrudwiek, h Tut<’---liardsley. e Stiudwick, h f.dligan a ,\. Richardson, run out, Ponsfonl (not out) Z[, Taylor (run out) V. Piehardson (not old) Total for four wickets