SECOND CRICKET TEST

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 879, 24 January 1930, Page 1

SECOND CRICKET TEST

N.Z. AT WICKETS GAME OPENS TODAY Prats Association WELLINGTON, Today. The second cricket test match commenced in the Basin Reserve, Wellington, in glorious weather, bright sunshine with a light northerly breeze. Turnbull and Benson stood down from the English side. Earle is 12th man. Lowry won the toss and decided to bat on the perfect wicket. There is a good attendance of spectators. Nichols bowled with the wind and made the ball fly a bit in his first over. He hit Dempster on the head, but Dempster, after rubbing the spot, ran a. single for the extra. Allom had only one over and then was replaced by Barr&tt. Dempster had more of the earlier bowling and scored chiefly in front of the slips and just in front of xQliars leg. One of Ills early late cuts was uppish, but fell safely short of slips. In the first half hour Mills had only one scoring stroke, but that was a -pretty turn to leg for four off Nichols. At the end of half an hour the score was 31 for none. Mills took 55 minuter to get into double figures. After his opening four he got two twos, then he got two fours off one over from Allom, one being a *weet stroke to fine leg, and the other an uppish but sa.fe stroke to the on. At the end of an hour’s play the .score was just four runs behind a run-a-minute rate. Nichols’s fifth over was an expensive one, Dempster scoring 11 off it. Two of his strokes in this over went to ihe boundary. The first of these was through the slips, but the bat had been knocked out of Dempster’s hands t>y the stroke The very next ball Dempster sent to a fine leg boundary. -It was a very uppish stroke, but dropped far from any fieldsman. When he was 27, Dempster gave a «<harp chance at the wickets off Barrett, but simultaneously with the first word of Gilligan’s appeal, “How's hat?’* Cornford dropped the ball. Dempster was batting well generally, •out now and again he had, because of Tis shortness, to jump up to stop bumping balls from Allom, who had elieved Nichols at the northern end. New Zealand was getting a great deal better start than in the first test, for •Mills, although quiet, and getting the mouse’s share of the bowling, was batting gracefully and with a nice straight •bat. Details: NEW ZEALAND First innings DEMPSTER, not out 3 l mills, not out 16 Extras 6