KENT OPENS BADLY AGAINST NEW ZEALAND

Rotorua Morning Post, 28 August 1931, Page 3

KENT OPENS BADLY AGAINST NEW ZEALAND

Press Association-

FOUR DOWN FOR 143 BRISK SCORING BY WOOLLEY IMPROYES POSITION. s NEW ZEALAND' S GOOD SCORE.

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By Telephone — "Post" Special service. (Rec. 12.28. a.m.) CANTERBURY, August 27. The New Zealand cricketers continued thair match with Kent to-day and made 326 at their first strike. A brilliant century by Mills was the feature of the. day and he had 163 up when he was bowled by Marriott. Kent opened with the order of hatting changed to save the best batsmen and when final telegraphed seores were received last night, had lost four wickets for 143. The feature of the county's opening was brisk batting by Woolley who was still at the wickets with 60. » The teams are as follows: — New Zealand. — Lowrj!', Allcott, Blunt, Dempster, James, Mills, Merritt, Mathesan, Page, Weir, Vivian. Kdnt. — Chapman, Legge, Hardinge, Woolley, Ames, Todd, Ashdown, Levett, Valentine, Freeman, Marriott. Dempster was dismissed shortly before lunch, when he skied a catch to point. Weir was run out after lunch, failing to start quickly enough. Blunt and Vivian were caught in the slips, and four wickets were down for 161 runs. A valuable partnership by Mills and Lowry added 80 runs for the fifth wicket, before Lowry was caught down the gully in attempting to drive a ball, which was going away. Meanwhile Mills was playing all the bowling with ease and confidence. He gave a delightful e^hibition of stylish batting, his driving, hooking and cutting being superb. He was bowled in attempting to pull a straight ball. In four hours' batting he gave one difficult chance at 145, and his 163 included 23 fours. Page batted steadily, but the others were disappointing. The weather was fine and the attendance numbered -6000. Scores : —

NEW ZEALAND. — First Innings: . Dempster, c Ashdown, b Marriott 34 Mills, b Marriott : 163 Weir, run out 8 Blunt, c Woolley, b Hardinge 9 Vivian, c Woolley, b Hardinge 14 Lowry, c Chapman, b Ashdown ... 34 Page, not out 26 James, b Hardinge ...J 8 Matheson, st Levett, b Marriott 1 Merritt, c Levett, b Marriott 8 Allcott, c Todd,, b Marriott 17 Extras 4 Total 326 Bowling: Ashdown took one wicket for 63 runs, Freeman none for 29, Marriott five for 102, Hardinge. three for 83, Woolley none for 21, 'Ames none for 24. KENT. — First Innings. Levett, b Matheson 0 Marriott, b Matheson 0 Ashdown, b Merritt 22 Hardinge, b Merritt 45 Woolley, not out 60 Extras ' 4 Ames, not out 12 Total for four wickets 143