CRICKET.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1930, Page 5

CRICKET.

GAME RESUMED. (By Telegraph— Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Jan.: 13. The test cricket match was resumed in overcast weather. Legge (35) and Nichols (10) were the not out batsmen. Blunt and Merritt took up the attack. The score at 11.45 was six for 148. M.C.C.—lst Innings. Gilligan, c Henderson, b Badcock 10 Dawson, c Lowry, b Henderson 7 Duleepsinhji, c Dickinson, b Henderson ..; ... 41 •Woolley, c Merritt, b Dickinson 31 ► Legge, b Blunt 36 Nichols, c Dickinson, b Page ... 21 Worthington, b Blunt 0 Turnbull, p Merritt, b Badcock ... 7 Barratt, st. James, b Merritt ... 4 Cornford, c lowry, b Blunt 6 . Allom, (not out) 4 Extras 6 .

Bowling analysis: Badcock two for ',29, Dickinson 1 for 40, Merritt, 1 for 48, Henderson two for 38, Blunt three for 17„ Page one for 3. , CHRISTCHURQ'H, Jan. 13. The .pitch and outfield were heavy after the week-end rain. ■ Blunt’sUfirst r .oyer to Nichols was a maiden. Legge placed ,Merritt for a singlin')VJth the" second ball of the nex;t t>ver Blunt g6t Legge’s wicket. Worthington who filled the vacancy was clean 'bowled 'next ball. Six wickets were then down for 148. Turnbull joined Nichols and blocked the first tall from Blunt. The latter’s deliveries were puzzling the bats-

men. At 160 Badcock relieved Merritt and bowled a maiden to Nichols. The bowling aided by the well placed, field kept the score down. Turnboil was caught by Merritt at ’midoff, the bowler being Badcock. Barratt was the newcomer and he hit Merritt to the boundary and he then jumped out to the next one and was stumped. Cornford joined Nichols and Page replaced ' Blunt at the south end. In his second over Nichols hit out and was; caught by Dickinson. Allom was the last man. 'Cornford nulled Merritt to the square-leg boundary. Blunt again went on at the south end. The innings ended when Cornford was caught by Lowry off Blunt, whose average was three for seventeen. The New. Zealand slow bowlers were well suited by the wicket, and the fieldine was keen. NEW ZEALAND. Ist Innings ... 112 NEW ZEALAND—2nd Innings. Dempster, (not out), ••• 14 Foley, c Nichols, b Allom ... ... 2 Blunt., c Legge, b Woolley 7 Page, (not out) ... ....... 9 .

Total for two wickets ... ... 41 > . Dempster and Foley .opened New Zealand’s second innings. Nichols I bowled to Dempster who scored; a |>air and a single. Allom was tlie other bowler. Foley made a weak shot and Nic-hols took him in the situs.

Blunt joined Dempster, the latter bringing up ten 'with a late cut off Allom for 2, after the innings had been in progress for twenty-three

minutes. Woolley replaced Allom who went on at the north end. Blunt hit Woolley to the leg boundary and twenty came up in thirty-three minutes. Blunt touched an off bad from Woolley and was caught in the' slims. Page was the next batsman. The score at lunch was 28 for two wickets.

Play was resumed with an attendance of about three thousand. Page hit seven off Woolley’s first over. The score is two for 41.

CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 13. The score at 2.40 was 3 wickets for 65 (Dempster 25, Page (not out) 19, extras 12.)