SPORTING NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 3032, 22 July 1886, Page 2

SPORTING NEWS.

[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. CRICKET. AUSTRALIANS Y. ALL ENGLAND. (Received July 21, 5 p.m.) London, July 20. The cricket match, Australians v. England, was resumed to-day at Lords, with fine weather and in the presence of a very large number of spectators. The Home team, with 202 runs for four wickets down, continued their first innings. Barnes and Shrewsbury, ihe yesterday’s not outs, with 28 and 91 respectively, continued to make an excellent stand against the bowling, and Barnes had added 30 to his score before he was caught. Of the players who followed, Barlow and Ulyett alone obtained double figures, the former 12, caught, the latter 19, bowled. Shrewsbury maintained a grand defence and run up his score to 164 before a catch disposed of him. The innings closed for a total of 353 runs. For the Australians the most suscessful bowlers were Trumble, two wickets for 30, and Spofforth, four for 70. After the usual delay, the visitors went to the wickets, but none of the batsmen succeeded in making any lengthened stand against the excellent bowling of Briggs and Barnes, who were both dead on the wicket, and the innings closed for 121. The highest individual scores were Jones, caught, 25; Scott, 1.b.w., 30; Palmer, caught, 20; Blackham, bowled, 23. For the Englishmen, Briggs took five wickets for 30 runs, and Barnes three for 20, Being in a minority of 232, the Aus-

tralians had to follow on, and at the close of the day’s play the score of their second innings stood at 22, with one wicket down. (Received July 22, 2 p.m.) July 21. The cricket match Australians v. All England resulted in a victory for the Home team by an innings, with 104 runs to spare.