NEW ZEALAND AT CRICKET

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 141, 5 September 1927, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND AT CRICKET

MATCH WITH WALES WELSHMEN OUT FOR 182 TOURISTS OPEN BADLY By Cable.—rrcss Association.—Copyright LONDON, Saturday. The New Zealand cricketers this morning commenced a match against Wales at Llandudno. Wales won the toss and started well. The first pair of batsmen, Bell and Bates, put on 73 runs for the first wicket. However, the New Zealand bowlers afterwards met with greater success, and six wickets fell after lunch in 75 minutes in which only 71 runs were added. Bell gave a bright display, but was twice missed. Allcott and Page dropped easy catches. Allcott and Henderson both bowled well, keeping the batsmen subdued. In the New Zealanders’ first venture they lost Dacre, McGirr and Bernau for 13 runs. Lowry and Mills improved matters when they got together. Stumps were drawn shortly befdre 7 p.m. owing to the bad light. Details of the scores are: WALES First Innings. Bates, b Allcott 29 Bell, c McGirr, b Dacre 52 •Riches, c Page, b Henderson .... 22 Walters, c and b Allcott IS Rowland, run out 2 Davies, c Dempster, b Henderson 6 Raikes, c Dempster, b Allcott . . 5 Barnes, b Henderson 5 Jagger, c Page, b Allcott 9 Thomas, c Blunt, b Allcott 1G Sullivan, not out 2 Extras 16 Total 182 Bowling Analysis.—Berr.au took no wickets for 11 runs; McGirr. none for 33; Lowry, none for 17; Allcott, five for 46; Blunt, none for 17; Dacre, one for 10; Henderson, three for 28; Dempster, none for 4. NEW ZEALAND First Innings. C. C. Dacre, b Thomas 7 H. M. McGirr, c Rowland, b Barnes 0 E. H. L. Bernau, b Barnes 0 .1. O. Lowry, not out 17 J E. Mills, not out 7 Extras . . . f 12 Total for three wickets . . ..‘. . 43

HERO OF THE HOUR

MERCER OF GLAMORGAN FINE BOWLING 'WINS MATCH By Cable. — Press Association. —Copyright LONDON t Saturday. The “Times” to-day says Mercer’s admirable medium-paced deliveries, which gave him six wickets for 31, made him the hero of the hour in the Glamorganshire victory over the Notts team. Mercer is one of the real bowlers of the present time in England, says the “Times,” where the majority of youngsters adopt the modern craze for swinging and swerving.

A medium-paced, accurate bowler is able to continue bowling for long spells without losing his length or his spin, and is invaluable, especially on Australian wickets. The lack of such bowlers may be the undoing of the English test team, which will not have Rhodes to call on in an emergency.

The belief that English county cricketers are past masters in the art of playing out time was rudely upset as a result of the match Notts v. Glamorganshire. When the Notts team journeyed to Swansea, requiring a mere draw and not even a win on the first innings in order to head the percentages and to win its first championship since 1907, few people would have prophesied that the season would end in such a blaze of sunshine and so sensationally. Yet two of the Glamorganshire team were between them responsible for one of the most unexpected debacles ever seen in English cricket when they dismissed eleven most stolid county batsmen for a meagre 61. SYMPATHY WITH NOTTS

When Notts continued its second innings this morning no one expected that the eight remaining wickets would fail to secure the 119 runs which were necessary to save the innings defeat. But the Glamorgan fieldsmen accepted every chance, and did everything they were not expected to do, and the crowd became wildly excited. The only glimpse of the usual brightness of the Notts batting was seen when Barrett and Voce made 17 for the last wicket.

Glamorganshire, which hitherto had not won a match this season, thus presented its second successive championship to Lancashire, whose captain. Major Green, sent a message of sympathy to Notts and recalled that Notts was in a similar case in 1892, when Somersetshire was responsible.—A. and N.Z.