CRICKET WITH ESSEX

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 7

CRICKET WITH ESSEX

DOMINION SHAPES WELL. HADLEE’S FINE CENTURY. A “TAIL” REVEALED. (From the Special Correspondent of the United Press Association with the Team.) (By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright.) Received August 10, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 9. In the first innings of their match with Essex the New Zealand cricketers made 308 (Hadlee 106) in reply to the county’s 256. At stumps the county had lost V...M-: wickets for 109 runs. The tourists finished the day in a very promising position. New Zealand began the day in fine style. Hadlee and Wallace .together added 173 in less than two hours. Hadlee was in fine form, driving with great power. He hit ten fours and two bixes in a chancelcss century. Wallace gave a capital display of varied stroke play, hitting twelve fours and one six. New Zealand’s innings, like the county’s, tailed away after the fall of the second wicket. After lunch uny Weir, Lamnson, Carson, and I indill offered .much resistance to the steady bowling .of Evans and Nichols. The latter was remarkably inexpensive considering the fact that the conditions favoured the batsmen. He bowled 33 overs at top pace for only 65 runs. Tindill’s .batting success after a long lean period was an encouraging prelude to the Test.

Essex’s second innings opened sensationally. Pago took an acrobatic catch in the slips to dismiss Eastman, the former Otago coach. Cowie and Dunning enjoyed early effectiveness although the wicket was still without vice. Vivian took a quick, valuable wicket. Wilcox, the Cambridge captain in 1933, again played a fine innings. The weather was like a midsummer day in New Zealand, and the attendance was about 4COO. \ Details:— NEW ZEALAAND. First Innings. Vivian, lbw, b Nichols 61 Hadlee, b Smith 106 "Wallace, c and b Eastman 88 Donnelly, c Wade, b Nichols ... 4 Weir, c Belle, b Evans 29 Carson, c Nichols, b Evans ... 15 Page, b Evans. ... 0 Lamason, c "Wilcox, b Smith ... 25 Dunning, c Eastman, ■ b Evans .... 7 Cowie, low, b Evans 0 Tindill, not out 23 Extras ... 10 Total .... 368 Bowling analysis (incomplete).— Nichols 2 for 65, P. Smith 2 for 119, Eastman 1 for 51. Evans 5 for 57. . . . ESSEX. First innings 256 Second Innings. Wilcox, not. out 53 Eastman b Dunning 6 Avery, lbw, b Cowie 29 Taylor, b Dunning ... • ...’ 2 Nichols, st Tindill, b Vivian ... 11 Vere-Hod’gc, not out 6 Extras 2 Total for 4 wickets 109 Bowling Analysis.

0. M. ]?. W Cowie ... 14 2 35 1 Dunning ... ... 16 2 46 2 Vivian ... 10 2 19. 1 Weir 2 3 5 0 Page !!! i 0 1 0 Donnelly ... ... i 0 1 0