CRICKET

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1927, Page 2

CRICKET

DEW ZEALAND TEAM AT HOME (Australian Press Association & Sun.) LONDON, Jui’y 27. At Exeter rain slopped play up to lunch time. NO PLAY. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in.) LONDON. July 28. There was no play in match New Zealand v. West of England at Exeter to-day owing to rain. ENGLISH COI'NTY .MATCHES. LONDON. July 2fi. The latest County cricket results are as follows :—- Kent v. Surrey.—Surrey in the first innings made 298, Ducat scoring 89. Daily 52. and Shepherd 100. Wright toil; •' for 80. Surrey in the second made 333 for 7, declared. Ducat scoring ofi, Barfing 123, and Fender 80. Kein ni the first made 258. Legge scoring 70. Fender took 5 for fit. Kent in the second made 259. Ashdown scoring 80 and Chapman 86. Peach took 5 for 02. Surrey won bv 111 runs.

Hampshire v. Middlesex.— In the first innings, Hampshire made 237, Alead making 95 not out. Li the second Hampshire made 251, Tennyson scoring 102. Aliddlesex in the first made 285, Lee storing 100 and Afallii 7-1. In the second Aliddlesex made 59 for 0. .Middlesex won on the first

Yorkshire v. Notts.—ln the first innings Nutts made 298. Carr scoring 52 and Whvsall 163. Rhodes took 4 for 10. Notts in the second made 224 for 11, declared. Whvsall making 74 and Lilloy 60. Yorkshire in the first scored 177. Oldroyd being not out 76; and in the second 72 for 0, Levlaml making 50. Notts won on the first innings. Sussex v. Somerset. —In the first Somerset, made 1 12, and in the second 299 for 9 declared. Case made 107 not out and Cress well 51. Sussex in the first scored 85. White taking 5 for 18, and in the second made 21-1 for 9, llowley scoring 61. Somerset won on the first innings.

For Worcester against Lancashire, McDonald took 6 for 23. Lancashire won. For Leicester against Essex, Armstrong took 4 for 21. and Astill G for 16. Leicester won. For Gloucester against Glamorgan .Mills took 6 for 74, and Parker 6 for 66. Gloucester won. For Derby against Xorthnnts, Lee took 5 for 11. and Townsend 6 for 42. Derby won. Daere and Page have joined the ranks of the batsmen of the team who have scored over ICOO runs on the tour. Five members of the team have now a four-figure aggregrate to thencredit. Their total scores to date, with the number <T innings they have had. are as follows: — Dempster 1331 runs in 30 innings. Blunt 1177 runs in 26 innings. Ijo wry 1127 runs in 29 innings. Page 1021 runs in 31 innings. Daere 1020 runs in 27 innings. Blunt reached 1090 runs in his twentieth innings, Dempster in his twenty-third. Lowry in his twentyfourth. Daere in his twenty-seventh, and Page in his thil ty-first.