TEST CRICKET STATISTICS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 614, 16 March 1929, Page 1

TEST CRICKET STATISTICS

LEYLAND LEADS ENGLISH BATSMEN England has completed her second innings in the fifth and final test of the 1925-29 scries, and the batting averages for the series show that Maurice Leyland is at the top of the list with a freak figure of llHk Leyland, who has played in only one test (the last) scored a century in the first innings, and in the second was not out with 53 to his credit. Close behind him comes Walter Hammond, with one of the finest records in the history of the AngloAustralian series. Although doing nothing extraordinary in the present game, he has amassed the greet total of 905 at an average of 113.13. His lias been a performance that will probably stand for years to come. Jack Hobbs, thanks chiefly to his overdue return to form in the fifth test, stands fifth on the list with an average of just over the half century. His partner in the first four tests, Sutcliffe, comes out one ahead of him by only a decimal point. Patsy Hendren. with an average of 52, is third on the list to Hammond, but since his fighting effort for 169 in the Brisbane game has had only one good score, viz.. 95 in the first innings of the final test. The Australian bowling figures are also available. These show the South Australian speed merchant, T. L. Wall, well ahead with eight wickets in his bag at a cost of 23 runs apiece. Wall has only played in the final game, and his performances seem to indicate that he is the logical successor to Jack Gregory. Clarrie Grimmett has the largest

total of wickets of any individual Australian bowler. 23, while behind him comes his contemporary, Don Blackie. with 14. Grimmett occupies fourth place on the average list, Blackie being second.

The success of Ryder as a change bowler has been somewhat unexpected, but all the more pleasing to liis countrymen when the Australian bowling was not particularly strong. Tho outstanding feature of the final game for the Australians up till yesterday, anyway, was the bowling of Wall. For Bn gland the batting of Leyland was indispensable in her grim fight for runs, especially yesterday afternoon. The success of J. C. White with the ball and the batting of Hammond throughout the series have been outstanding from the English test point of view. Following are the averages:

ENGLAND Batting In. N. J. U R. Hammont] . !) 1 201 Ley land 2 1 j r> 7 190 E. Hendren . 1) 0 109 472 Sutcliffe . . 7 0 B. Hobbs . !* 0 142 D. R. Jardine . 9 1 98 341. 42.62 Mead . . . . 72 B. Tyldesley . . . 2 0 31 A. P. F. Chapman 7 0 50 165 23.57 Larivood . . . . 8 0 M. W. Tate . . . 10 0 54 214 J. C. White . 8 4 29 G. Duckworth . 9 4 76 C Geary .. 66 95 *Siglifies not ou AUSTRAL A Bowling Runs. ■Wickets. T. 1.. Wall . . . . . . 189 8 23.62 D. D. J. Blackie . . 144 3 4 31.71 J. Ryder . . . . 179 5 39.66 C. V. Grimmett . . 924 23 40.17 ii. L. Hendry . . 32S 8 41.00 J. M. Gregory .. . . 142 3 47.33 P. M. Hornibrook . 193 4 48.25 H. Ironmonger .. 306 6 51.00 A. Fairfax .. 104 2 52.00 R. K. Oxenham .. 381. 54.42 E. 1 j. a’Beckett .. 216 10S.00 C. E. Kelleway 77 0 O. E. Nothling . <* A. F. Kippax . . 16 0 —