NEW ZEALAND WINS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 76, 21 June 1927, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND WINS

Durham’s First Innings Rally and Second Innings Collapse VICTORY BY TEN WICKETS By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. Received 11.10 a.m. LONDON, Monday. THE New Zealand cricket team beat Durham by 10 wickets. The home side collapsed completely in the second innings.

On their first innings, the Durham til-enders, Brooks and Cook, surprised the New Zealanders with a spirited stand, the latter placing perfectly, though the bowling was most accurate, and the fielding most keen. added 11 in 1.10 minutes. After a ninth wicket partnership of 195, Durham again began well, Nichol breezily making 50 in 50 minutes. Three were down for SO. Then came an amazing collapse. Cun-

ningliam, with Henderson, was the destroying agent, the latter winding up the innings in his one and only over. He and Cunningham, unassisted by the wicket, bowled with real 'devil. The attendance at the start was 500. Details: NEW ZEALAND.—First Innings. C. S. Dempster, c Howell, b Brooks 178 R. C. Blunt, c Brooks, b Carr .... 42 M. L. Page, c Legg, b Cook 57 J. E. Mills, lbw, b Cook 0 C. Oliver, b Cook l

C. F. Allcott, e weight, b Carr . . I McGirr, c Kellsall, b Carr 6 Dacre. b Cook 43 E. H. L. Bernau. c Gibbon, b Brooks 21 W. Cunningham, c Nichol, b Brooks 4 M. Henderson, not out 3 Extras S Total 373 Bowling analysis.—Howell took no wickets for 79 runs; Cook, four for 96; Carr, three for 56: Nichol, none for 40: Brooks, three for 46; Weight, none for 48. SECOND INNINGS Oliver, not out 3 Bernau, not out l Extras l Total for 0 wickets 5 Bowling analysis.—Howell, none for 3; Cook, none for* 1. DURHAM.—First Innings. Kelsall, c Oliver, b Henderson . . 1 Weight, b McGirr S M. Nichol, c Dempster, b Blunt . . 19 Adamson; c Dacre. b Henderson . . 6 Carr, c Mills, b Blunt 0 Gibbon, run out 10 R. Nichol, b Henderson 2 Howell, c Dacre, b Henderson . . 0 Brooks, c Blunt, b Henderson . . 77 Legg, b McGirr 0 Cook, not out 106 Extras 25 Total 254 Bowling analysis.—Henderson took five wickets for 66; McGirr, two for 41; Blunt, two for 35; Cunningham, none for 25; Bernau, none for 50; Page none for 12. SECOND INNINGS Kelsall, c Cunningham, r> McGirr . 0 Nichol, l.b.w, b Cunningham ... 56 Weight, b Blunt ......... *» 6 Adamson, c Dacre, b Cunningham “s Carr, b Blunt 3 Brooks, c Dacre, b Cunningham 0 Gibbon, b Blunt 0 Nichol, c Allcott, b Cunningham 1 Howell, c Blunt, b Henderson . . 19 Cook, not out 7 Legg, c Dacre b Henderson .... 0 Extras 10 Total ' .. 7. 123 Bowling analysis.—Cunningham took four wickets for 25; Blunt, three for 24; Henderson, two for 6; McGirr, one for 13; Oliver, none for 25; Bernau, none for 21.—A. and N.Z. The New Zealand Cricket Council has been advised by cable that New Zealand’s shares of the gates at matches in England are as follow:M.C.C., £124;: Essex, £115; Cambridge, £9O; Middlesex, £246; Royal Navy, £42; Sussex, £92.