CRICKET

Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1930, Page 6

CRICKET

AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS. AGAINST SCOTLAND. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, July 20. Rain delayed the start of the Australian match at Glasgow, and interrupted play in the mid-afternoon, and also caused stumps to be drawn early, with the. score of West Scotland 6 wickets down for 140. A crowd of three thousand braved the weather to ulitness the match, and to see Bradman, who enlivened the game by three times throwing down the wicket from long-one, but the batsmen had skated into their creaces. Then McTavish essayed a mighty hit, and Bradman jumped and caught the greasy ball, near the fence as if taking a football mark. Scores: WEST SCOTLAND—First Innings. Kerr, b Hornibrook ... 25 Atkinson, o and b Hornibrook ... 23 McTavish, c Bradman, b Hornibrook 10 Alexander, c Hornibrook, b Wall ... 8 Nicholson, .b 1 Burwood... 22 Todd, c Woodfull, b.Kippax. Ackroyd (not out) •...' ... ... 12 Bxtras .' 6 Total for six'wickets ... ... 140 ' FOURTH TEST TEAM. LARWOOD. TYLDESLEY AND | GEARY DROPPED. LONDON, July 19. England's fourth Test match team will be as follows: —Chapman, Duleepsinhji, Robins, Peebles, ■ Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hammond, Tate, Leyland, Duckworth and Hendren (twelfth man). “Behind the announcement' of the -English Test team there lies a dramatic episode of the . wicket history,” says the “Weekly. Dispatch.” “During the meeting of'the selectors, of which he is himself a member,. -jHobbs .intimated that he . was so ' dissatisfied with his form against the Australians at Lords and at Leeds, that he would prefer to stand down for the fourth Test. Hobbs was. also of the opinion that, at present, he was out of luck, adding that he was the last man to wish to retain a place in the team unless lie were able to justify the selectors’ confidence. Hobbs’ colleagues, while acknowledging, the spirit of his offer, insisted on his playing in wnat may he the decisive match.” In an article in the “Weekly Dispatch,” Hobbs says:—“The appeals against the light have started an orgy of newspaper abuse, most of which is transparent nonsense. It may he a players duty to hi® side to appeal. The. cases at .Leeds,...which-are under criticism could not be called frivolous, as the umpires upheld them.” Hobbs also refutes the newspaper writers’ attack on the competence and the impartiality of the umpires. NEW TEST BOWLER. LONDON, July 19 The “Weekly Despatch,” referring to the new man in the English Test team, lan Peebles, points out that Peebles’s career reads like a boy’s school story. Seven years ago he was playing in Saturday matches for Glasgow 'Academy. Mr P. F. Warner discovered his abilities, and he joined the Marylebone Club, He reversed the order of things by making .his name in County cricket before going to the University. He once took thirteen Cambridge wickets. He also showed great promise in South Africa. Peebles is only 22 years of age, like Bradman, whom he. has been-included to get out. THREE NEW BOWLERS. LONDON, July 19. Obviously the harping on #ie idea that spin bowlers can subdue Bradman, accounts for the substitution of and Peebles for Tyldesley and Geary, in the fourth Tiest team, despite the fact that Bradman has invariably been severe on both of these amateurs. Writing in the “Evening Standard” Cotton says:—Nichols, the new Test bowler, needs less nursing than did Larwood. Indeed, the three new bowlers inspire fresh hope. It is the best side that has yet been chosen. Robins and Peebles will confront the Austaalian,s with something they are not accustomed. Robins should not have been omitted at Leeds, because he virtually won tlfc first Test. TEST AVERAGES. The averages for the test matches to date show that Bradman is leading the batsmen with 728 runs and an average of 145.6. So faT Grimmett has taken twentyfour wickets in the present test series at a cost of 642 runs, or an average of 26.5. Tate has been the most successful English bowler, his twelve •wickets cofeting 30 runs apiece. The details of the best performances are: BASTING. AUSTRALIA. - '• Tl. runs. Innings. Av.

Bradman ... ... 728 6 145.6 Kippax Wood full .... ... 250 .. &7 4 4 62.5 59,2 M’CaT)e ... 1» 4 38.0 ‘Ponsford .... ... 137 4 34.2