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Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1925, Page 3

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insrinr tAN and N z. cable association THE "I Ik IBS" COMMENT. TRIBUTE TO SUTCLIFFE. (Received this day at, 11.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, dan. 8, The “Herald” coimnenting on the cricket, states to make 3,17 for nine wickets in the fourth innings of a test match on a worn wicket on the sixtn day’s play was a tremendous undertaking; and required lor its accomplishment one or more extraordinary individua! pertoriiiances with the balling and general consist cnee right down ihe hatting order. Hitherto (he uneven character of the English hat ling did not warrant an indulgence in any sanguine expectations that il would succeed on this occasion, hut it, did succeed almost beyond e.xneetatinns. At the closci of the day’s play England st il! have a hard light to win. If anything, the advantage is again on the howling side. Tt seemed to the convsiwndeiil that England lost a golden opportunity, if not of actually winning the match yesterday, of making victory practically assuied for today. ihe runs were there to he had, bat Hi" batsmen after once getting on ton o! the boiling during the early part, ol the Woolloy-Sutrlilfe partnership, failed to drive home the advantage. Ly temporising and lapsing into ultra tautions methods ol slow iilu.v at this stage and the cautious methods directing it. were entirely overdone. It was playing into the hands of the Australian side. Il made the howlers bowl better and gave ha'-k the lost initiative to Ibe lidding side. The longer the getting of those runs was delayed, the ercatei was the chalice of intricacies in the wicket taking a hand. Sufelilie was the hatting hero of the day. fodei’d. fie may he regarded as the hatting hern of the whole reiiiarkahle match. lie will have good cause to remember Ins first test match on Melbourne ground. His performance yesterday entitles him to take rank as the only English player to perform the feat, which he shares with Bardslev, of making two separate hundreds in'a test match. He has Loon at thi' wickets wielding the broad and certain blade for the lies! Pari of lour (lavs, and was on (lie field the whole of the two previous days, so except for the matter of an hour ami nhalf he has actually been on the held during the whole six days ot the match. There is still one conquest lor him to make on this occasion, the euinnleti m of victory for his side, which his play has rendered a possibility, if not a probability.

AFRICAN MATCH. CAPETOWN. January 7. In a two days’ mat;h England made 0(59 in the first innings. Riddells took ."> for r>9. Xorihorn districts first i•niligs resulted in 124. Jamieson •--'ml; 7 for 27. Northern districts followed „„ mid made 14 7 for The mat h was drawn.