DULL CRICKET AT LORD’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 384, 19 June 1928, Page 9

DULL CRICKET AT LORD’S

TEST-TRIAL MATCH ENGLAND 247 FOR THREE (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian P.A.—United Service) Reed. 9.55 a.m. LONDON, Monday. Rain throughout the country interfered with the games. England, in the test trial match, made 247 for three wickets (Sutcliffe 101, Hallows 55, E. Tyldesley not out 64). The Rest of England made 307. The crowd at Lords had a dull day. The cricket was of the. slowest. Sutcliffe and Hallows were not taking risks, and showed that England's alternative opening pair in Hobbs’s absence were capable of a century for the first wicket. Hallows scored at the rate of 25 an hour. He was twice missed, and was finally disposed of by a fine catch by Ames, who kept the wicket most brilliantly, suggesting that it will be a close race between him and Smith for the wicketkeepership in the West Indies test. Smith also kept perfectly for the Rest. The batsmen flattered the bowling, which was good in length and direction, but was without brilliancy. Nichols’s pace apparently surprised Sutcliffe, and Tyldesley. A section of the spectators tired of the ultra-correct batting as the afternoon wore on, and began barracking.