CRICKET.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1930, Page 5

CRICKET.

AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS, AGAINST WARWICK. MATCH ABANDONED [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 8. The Warwick match has been abandoned. - Bowling analysis: A’Beckett 0 for I, Fairfax 1 for 13, Harwood 1 for 28, Hornibrook 1 for 29, Grimmett 0 for 14, McCabe 0 for 10. HOBBS ORDERED A REST. LONDON, Aug. 8. Hobbs, who is suffering from an attack of neuritis, has been ordered a week’s rest, , /' COUNTY CRICKET. LONDON. Aug. 8. Rain seriously curtailed County cricket.

S'urrcfv, first innings, 265 (Hobbs 106). Tate 7 for 55. Second innings, 4 for 154 (Ducat, not out, 71). Sussex, first innings, 262. ■ Surrey won on the first innings. Derby, first innings, 85. Brook 6 for 30. Second innings. 186. Wor- . center, first innings, .309 (Root 80). Mitchel 5 for 74. Worcester won by an innings and 38 runs. Gloucester, first innings, 230 (Sinfield 98). Mercer 5 for 64. Glamorgan, first innings, 62. Hammond 8 for 25. Followed on, 129. Hammond 4 for 48. Gloucester won by an innings and 39 runs. ’Kent, first innjings, 279 A fib down 64). Staples 6 for 86. Second innings, 8 fo r 182, declared. Nottingham, first innings, 248 (Whysall 128). Freeman 6 for 93. Second innings. 5 for 91. Kent won on the first innings. Yorkshire, first innings 189 (Holmes 81). Geary 5 for 64. Leicester, first innings, 7 for 110. Match drawn. .7- Middlesex, first innings, 179. Lancashire, first innings, 3 for 49. Match drawn. Hampshire first innings, 60. jupp . (> for 17. Second innings. 153. Nor■thants, first innings. 120. Second 8 for 95. Nortliants won by ten wickets. Somerset, first innings, 8 for 162. declared. Essex, first innings, 0 for 48. Match drawn. HOBBS’ GREAT RECORD. LONDON, Aug. 8. Hobbs is now within sixteen runs or •Grace’s aggregate record of 54,896 in first class cricket. His 106 to-day makes his centuries 174. . He has now scored a hundred against every County both at Home and away.