THE CRICKET CRITIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 819, 13 November 1929, Page 13

THE CRICKET CRITIC

M.C.C's Smart Recovery After being nearly a hundred run; behind mi the first innings. Harold ; Gillian's Marylebone Cricket Clul men made 1 smart recovery acrainsi South Australia at Adelaide on Monday • Those chiefly responsible for the suddt r - change in t r 1 o fortunes of the cann : wa re V. E. Woolley and K. S Duleepsi nliji. The members of the team seem to he living up 10 the ! reputations which have gone before ! them, as forceful, brilliant batsmen. F, E. Woolley's Century ! For the first time on the turn- to date. | F. E. Woolley, hailed in his heyday as ! the world's greatest all-round lefthanded cricketer, has reached his true i batting- form. He was stumped by ' Walker off (Jrimmott for a “duck” in | the first innings, but had his revenge jin the final strike by getting 146. The j success of the Englishmen in their j matches with the more powerful states | of Victoria and New South Wales ! would do much to create bigger interest in the matches in which they will he Jengaged in New Zealand. It. seems, j also, that the true possibilities of the j eleven have not yet been fathomed. Big Hitters’ Success j Another feature of the Englishmen’s i second innings was the success of the j big hitters, Earle and Nichols. The I former, who is reputed to have the ' longest carry of any batsman in Eng- : land today, lifted C. V. (irimmett, tlie test match bowler, over the line for six three times in one over. Woolley’s score included 13 fours and one six. The Third Match The M.C.C. cricketers commence, the third match of the Australian portion i of their itinerary on Friday next 1 against the Victorian State eleven at j Melbourne. The match will be c.Oll- - tinued on Saturday, Monday and Tuesj day next. November 16, IS and 10. This J will be the severest test the English* , men will have met in Australia to date. * * Bad Weather Again 1 Once again the weather came to the

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