THE FOURTH TEST

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1933, Page 5

THE FOURTH TEST

AUSTRALIA 340 M.C.C. START WELL IN REPLY. (Australian Press Association) , BRISBANE, February 11. When the fourth Test was resumed the weather was hotter than yesterday. The forecast suggested a thunderstorm. The wicket was still in excellent order though perhaps a little dry. Tlure was a crowd of 23,000 and tber accommodation was inadequate. The English team is:— Jardine (captain), Wvatt, Sutcliffe, Hammond, Paynter, Ames, Larwood, Alien, Verity, Ley land, Mitchell. Brown (twelfth man). With the overnight score at'2sl for three wickets Bradman (71) and Ponsford (8) resumed Australia’s innings. The game had not teen long in progress before Bradman and Powsford fell victims to Larwood. Bradman had added five to his overnight score, and Ponsford eleven.

With the cricket ground conditions yesterday all in favour of the batsmen and with the terrific heat a decided handicap to the fieldsman, there was a Capacity crowd on the Brisbane Cricket Ground. They anticipated a big increase in the Australian total, but cricket’s glorious uncertainty asserted itself, and at lunch Australia had lost four good wickets with the addition of only sixteen runs. Jardine’s captaincy played a great part in this collapse. He used his attack so a's to maintain its peak of venom." He took a sporting risk cf hanking everything on Larwood’s opening session, and the gallant express howler ro;e to the occasion magnificently, clean bowling Bradman and Ponsford with the addition of only thirtyfour runs.

The Australian colts, Darling and Bromley, were, then associated in a bright partnership, until Darling was caught behind the wicket. When Love went out, leg before, to Mitchell, Wall’s appearance marked the commence of Australia’s tail, but at lunch Bromley and Wall were still together with the score at seven for 317.

Bromley played one hectic over from Larwood, getting twelve rims by daring, if risky, shots. Without an addition to the total, Bromley then fell into the leg trap. After lunch" the remaining three batsmen offered little resistance, though Ironmonger succeeded in making his highest Test score of eight runs. At the luncheon adjournment Australia had scored 217 for the loss of teven wickets. Another wicltet, Bromley’s fell just after lutlch without addition to the Iso ore, and the remaining batsmen went cheaply. The innings dosed at 2.4.0 p.ra, with the total at 340. Jardine and Sutteliffc opened for England. At the afternoon tea adjournment England had scored 43 without loss. When Sutcliffe and Jardine opened for England, they must have had one eye on the weather, for storm clouds were gathering. This did not inspire any faster scoring, however, the first hour yielding forty-three runs. Jardine was brighter than usual. After Wall, O’Reilly and Ironmonger had been tried, Woodfull" brought on McCabe to attack for the last over before tea, out Jardine played a maiden over. England then had on 43 for no wickets, made in sixty-five minutes. During the tea adjournment, a misunderstanding regarding a short run by Sutcliffe was cleared up, one run being added to the batsman’s total. Wall and O’Reilly resumed the attack, but, though' accurate, they were scarcely dangerous. The weather was considerably cooler after tea. Fifty runs were passed in seventy-nine minutes.

The nxet ball, from Wall, Sutcliffe snicked da ngerous'ly between the wicket-keeper and the slip. Later on, had Wall been quicker, Jardine would have been run out when he was twenty-four, but Wall thought that no run wa,s being attempted. The batsmen adopted painfully slow tactics, and hundreds of the spectators kft-the ground at 5.30 o’clock, O’Reilly had been bowling with real hostility, and Sutcliffe survived a confident appeal for leg before from this bowler. Bromley was given a turn with the ball at ninety, and he bowled a maiden over to Jardine.

Sutcliffe reached his half century in 145 minute-, including four fours, by sweeping O’Reilly to the leg boundary. Jardine was then forty. Bromley troubled Sutcliffe, hut a confident appeal behind the wicket was disallowed.

At a quarter to six, appeals against j the light started, and stumps were j drawn at 5.50. Jardine and Sutcliffe, despite their snail-pace batting, had made a fighting reply; but, in view of the likelihood of rain and of the wicket crumbling, it was thought that they might have forced the pace a little. 0’ Reilly’s hostility from the grandstand end suggested that the wicket * might be wearing. It was a bad day for Australia. The official estimate of the attendance was newly thirty thousand. Ihe gate was £3027. Scores: — AUSTRALIA —First Innings. ■Richardson. *td. Ames, b Hammond W Wood full, b Mitchell ° Bradman, b Larwood ... ' JMcCabe, c Jardine, b Alien

Ponsford, b Larwood 19 Darling, c Ames, b Allen 17 Bromley, c Verity, b Larwood ... 26 Love, 1.b.w., b Mitchell 5 Wall, not out 6 O’Reilly, c Hammond, 1» Larwood 6 Ironmonger, st. Ames, b Hammond 8 Extras 7 Total 310 The fall of wickets was as follows : 1 for 133, 2 for 200, 3 for 233, 4 for 264, 5 for 267, 6 for 292, 7 for 315, 8 for 317, 9 for 329, 10 for 340. Bowling Analysis: Larwood 31 overs, 7 maidens, 101 runs, 4 wickets; Allen 24 overs, 4 maidens, 83 runs, 2 wickets; Hammond, 23 overs, 5 maidens, 61 runs, 2 wickets; Mitchell, 15 overs, 5 maidens 49 run;', 2 wickets; Verity, 27 overs, 12 maidens, 39 runs, 0 wiefets. BN GLA ND. —First Innings. Jardine, not out 41 Sutcliffe, not out 51 Extras 7 Total (for no wickets) 99 Rowling analyst?: Wall 9.3 overs, 1 maiden, 29 runs, u wickets; O’Reilly 20' overs, 7 maidens, 35 runs, 0 wickets; Ironmonger, 11 overs, 3 maidens, 21 runs. 0 wickets; McCabe, 7 overs, 3 maidens, 9 runs, 0 wicket-: Bromley, 3 overs, 1 maiden, 5 runs, 0 wickets.