CRICKET

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1931, Page 5

CRICKET

NEW ZEALAND TOUR. AGAINST ESSEX. (Special to Press Assn.) (Received 8.40 a.in.) LON DUN, May 8. Rain delay, d the start of the New Zea!and-Kss«x cricket for over an hour. Essex udiow'd on. Cutniore and Po)ie opened quietly. The ‘•Times” praises the brilliant wii ketkeeping of James and valuable bowling of -Merritt and Blunt. NEW ZEALAND WIN. BY AN INNINGS AND 48 BENS. (Received 9.50 a.in.) LONDON, May 8. The Essex match ended at four o'clock this afternoon in a meritorious victory for New Zealand. by an innings and forty-iight runs. Sun followed tin* rain and the wicket was somewhat tricky. Merritt took full advantage of this and helped by the batsmen A lack of enterprise, the New Zealand bowlers dismissed EsstYx for .113.

Talbot and Weir opened the bowling. The attack was soon entrusted to the ■spin bowlers and the opening blltstinsen were out before Imm-li. .Eastman wa« caught in the slips, third ball. After the resumption O’Connor and Niclmh stemmed the tide but Page was brought on and btoke the partnership. At this stage Merritt was most dangerous, taking four wickets in rapid succession. Ho bowled' O’Connor with a googly. Daer improved the position by hard hitting, but it, was a forlorn hope. Apart from three overs, Talbot ami Merritt bowl >J throughout the innings. They maintained an excellent length, flighted the hall well, and masked the googly effectively. Tip. decisive victory is regarded as a magnificent advertisement for th L > side.

NEW ZEALAND—First Innings. Dempster, not out 205 Mills, c Sheffield, b Nichols 33 Page, 1.b.w., b Nichols 5 Blunt, b Daer 25 Weir, h Daer 0 Kerr, b Daer 25 Lowry, st. Sheffield, b Eastman ... 33 Talbot, not out 33 James I b.w. Daeg w I AI hot t b Smith 18 Merritt not out 35 Total 425 Bowling—Daer 5 for 74, Nichols 3 for 92, Smith 1 for 125, Eastman 1 for 157. ESSEX— First Innings. Cutmore l.b.w, Blunt 5 O’Connor e Mills b Merritt 129 Pope run out 20 Eastman b Talbot 22 NicholD o Allcotb b Blunt 18 Sheffield l.b.w. b. Blunt 7 Bray c Lowry 1> Merritt 12 Hopkin l.b.w. b Merritt 0 Daer c James b "Weir 3 Morris not out 12 Smith b Merritt 15 Extras 12 Total 264 Bowling—Talbot 1 for 49. Weir ] for 32. Blunt 3 for 67, Merritt 4 for 89. Allcott 0 for 15.

ESSEX SECOND INNINGS. Cutmore c Allcott b Merritt ... 18 Pop,:* c .James b Merritt 7 O’Connor b Merritt 23 Eastman c Page b Merritt ... 0 Nichols b Page 11 Sheffield c and b Merritt 3 Morris !> Blunt o llipkin I, Merritt ... 2 Paer b Merritt 23 Smith e James b Merritt 0 llrav not out ••• 24 Extras 2 Total H 3 Bowling: Talbot o for 9, Weir 0 for 5, Merritt 8 for 41, Allcott 0 for 12, Blunt 1 for 39. Page l for 5. COUNTY CRICKET RESULTS. LONDON, May 8. Derby, Ist innings 100. Parker 6 for 41. Second 120, Parker 8 for 50. Gloucester Ist 112, Worthing 4 for 20. second 6 for 111. Gloucester won by four wickets. Hampshire Ist 339. White 6 for 84, second 7 for 201 declared. Somerset Ist 329 (Ca s e 131) second 9 for 196. Ha mush ire won on the first innings. Friendly matches—Marvlebone Ist 320 (Dawson 70, Hemlren not out 107) second 5 for 97 declared. Surrey Ist 901 (Sandbam 87). Peebles 5 for 51. Second 1 for 149 (Hobbs not out 78) T]m game was drawn.

Nottingham Ist 134 (Larwood <4). second 3 for 375 declared (Lilley 110. Voce 120. Walker not out 100). Glamorgan L-t 161. so- ond 147. Larwood 8 for 54, including the hat trick. Not-tm-dinm won by 301 runs. Cambridge Ist 181 (Kemn-Welrh 791, second 172. Langridge 7 for 32. Sussex Ist 297 (Cook not out 95), second 4 for 57. Sussex won hv 6 wickets. Oxford Ist 213 (Pataudi G 8) Macaulay 4 for 48. Second 80. Macaulay 0 for 21. Yorkshire Lt 385 (Mitchell 62). Yorkshire won by an innings and 92 runs.