FREEMAN AT HIS BEST

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 728, 30 July 1929, Page 9

FREEMAN AT HIS BEST

AFRICAN WICKETS FALL FAST IN TEST ALL OUT FOR 130 RUNS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 11 a.m. LONDON, Monday. Twenty-four hours of rain left the pitch wet, and it began to cut up early in the fourth cricket test between England and South Africa. Rain delaying the start, England declared the innings closed at Saturday’s total—437 for seven wickets. England’s bowlers bowled legbreaks. The South Africans persistently tried to get the ball £o leg, often with disastrous results. Catterall banged a long hop into Sutcliffe’s hands at deep leg. Freeman was the first change, mixing an occasional googly with legbreaks. The former often raised a laugh at the batsmen’s expense, but the leg-breaks did damage. Mitchell gave Geary an easy catch at the boundary. Taylor alone tried

to drive Freeman. Deane quite failed to manage Freeman’s breaks. He played forward and tipped a ball to Duckworth, who almost ran him out. Deane, playing a similar shot, missed the next altogether, and was stumped.

Taylor jumped out to smother a break, but he missed and was howled. Morkel fared better at the same game, and confidently left the crease, jumping into Freeman. Nevertheless, his batting was mostly defensive. Vincent, trying a big leg hit, was easily taken. Morkel hit eight fours. The Africans’ innings lasted 185 minutes. Africa in its second innings batted 55 minutes. The batsmen scored three runs off seven overs. Then Africa lost Seidle and Catterall in successive overs for the same score. Carr missed Taylor when he was two. Details of the score are as follow: ENGLAND First Innings SUTCLIFFE, b Morkel 9 BOWLEY, b Bell 13 WYATT, e Cameron, b Vincent . . 113 WOOLLEY, c and b Vincent .. .. 154 KENDREN, b Quinn 12 LEYLAND, c Cameron, b Mitchell .. 55 CARR, c Bell, b Quinn 10 GEARY, not out 24 BARRATT, not out 2 Extras ; 35 Seven wickets (declared) for .. . , 437 Bowling.—Morkel, 1-61; Quinn, 2-95; Bell, 1-113; Vincent, 2-93; Mitchell, 1-21; Owen-Smith, 0-16. SOUTH AFRICA First Innings CATTERALL, c Sutcliffe, b Barratt 3 SIEDLE, 1.b.w., b Freeman 6 MITCi-lELL, c Geary, b Freeman . . 1 TAYLOR, b Freeman 28 DEANE, st Duckworth, b Freeman 0 CAMERON, c and b Freeman . . .. 13 OWEN-SMITH, c Barratt, b Freeman 6 VINCENT, c Geary, b Freeman .... 6 MORKEL, 1.b.w., I) Geary 63 BELL, c Duckworth, b Geary .... 0 QUINN, not out 1 Extras 3 Total 130 Bowling.—Barratt, 1-8; Geary, 2-18; Freeman, 7-71; Woolley, 0-22; Wyatt, 0-8. Second Innings SIEDLE, b Barratt 1 CATTERALL, b Geary 1 MITCHELL, b Geary 2 TAYLOR, not out 10 QUINN, not out 0 Extra 1 Three wickets for 15