ENGLAND MAKES RECOVERY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 998, 14 June 1930, Page 1

ENGLAND MAKES RECOVERY

241 Runs For Eight Wickets FIRST TEST WITH AUSTRALIA Hobbs and Chapman Retrieve Position IN the first Test match with the Australian cricketers, England has lost eight wickets for 241. Hobbs (78) and Chapman (52) were the mainstay of the home side, while Grimmett's bowling, in spite of a greasy ball, proved very effective as a wicket-getter and a check on high scoring.

United I‘-A .—By Telegraph —Cop

Reed. 10.50 a.m. LONDON, Friday. The first" test match between the Australian cricketers and England was begun this morning at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. This match is the 120th of the series between the two countries.

The gates were opened at nine o’clock and 10,000 spectators were ; present an hour before play was started. Rain was reported to be falling 20 miles away, but the weather at Nottingham was fine, although gloomy. The wicket was good, hard and true. The teams were as follow: Australia. —W. M. Woodfull (captain), V. Y. Richardson, D. G. Bradman, A. Fairfax, A. F. Kippax, W. A. Oldfield, W. H. Ponsford, C. V. Grimmett, T. Wall, S. McCabe, P. M. Hornibrook. England.—A. P. F. Chapman (captain), J. H. Duckworth, W. R. Hammond, E. Hendren, J. B. Hobbs, 11. Larwood, R. W. V. Robins, H. Sutcliffe, M. W. Tate, R. Tyldesley, F. E. Woolley. A. Jackson was 12th man for Australia and K. S. Duleepsinhji for England. Oldfield was much fitter this morning and the injury to his neck is better. The omission of Duleepsinhji disappointed the crowd. SUTCLIFFE INJURED The Australians wore black armbands out of respect for the late Sir Francis Toone, the Yorkshire County secretary, as did Hobbs and Sutcliffe. The English captain won the toss and elected to bat. Wall and Fairfax opened the bowling to Hobbs and Sutcliffe. A light breeze blew across the ground. There were only two men in the slips, Hornibrook and Richardson, with Fairfax fielding at point. Sutcliffe had made nine when a rising ball from Wall struck his right hand. The Yorkshireman went on batting, but the injury was painful. Wall was ineffective. Grimmett bowled with a particularly low trajectory and a good length. Hornibrook badly dropped Sutcliffe at first slip when he had made 22. Hobbs and Sutcliffe batted with complete confidence. Neither Wall nor Fairfax looked in the least dangerous, but Hobbs often mistimed Grimmett, who deserved to get almost anyone’s wicket. Bradman and Richardson fielded splendidly. HAMMOND SOON GOES England's first 50 runs took 69 minutes. Fairfax sent up a beautiful rising hall. Sutcliffe, who was in two minds, nibbled at the ball, which flew high, touched Oldfield’s bands, and was deflected into Hornibrook’s, who thus handsomely repaired his earlier mistake. Hammond, who followed, had made only eight when be was leg before wicket to Grimmett, and England had a worse disaster when Woolley was stumped by Oldfield off the same bowder without scoring. Hendren had made only five when I Grimmett bowled him, and four of England’s best batsmen were out with the score only 71. BAD FOR ENGLAND Two disasters befell England from successive balls. Hammond started with two delightful fours and then walked into Grimmett's straight ball. Woolley played forward to a googly and Oldfield achieved a magnificent piece of stumping. Thus three wickets were down for 63. This dramatic change in the fortunes of the game made the atmosphere tense. Two runs later England nearly lost Hendren, who had a narrow escape from stumping when he fell in scrambling back to the crease. Grimmett worried Hendren with his deadly bowling. The latter tried to square-cut, but the ball broke from off and took the bails. Four wickets had now fallen while 18 runs were being scored. Play was resumed after lunch in threatening weather, a bad light and misty rain. The attendance was disappointing. totalling no more than 20,000. Wall and Grimmett took up 1 the attack. The captain raised the hundred after 130 minutes, driving Grimmett to the boundary, and he hit two more fours off the same over. LIGHT GIVES TROUBLE An appeal against the light at 2.22 p.m. was upheld and play was resumed at 3 o'clock after a sharp shower. Chapman continued his merry in

nings and again hit Grimmett to th* fence aud next over drove him for successive fours.

The ball was now greasy and handicapped the bowlers. Hobbs, slapitniug Wall to the boundary, reached 52 after 150 minutes’ play. Chapman continued to hit hard and after an hour's batting, had compiled 50. Hornibrook ended Chapman s fine fighting knock when the partner ship had added S2, Ponsford taking an excellent running catch on the bound arY- .

Cbapman hit 10 fours. Kaiu again stopped flay at 3.35 p.m. Covers were removed and play resumed at 5.25 p.m., the pitch being unaffected. The bowlers used sawdust. JSobba continued to play with quiet confidence, but Larwood was fluky. McCabe had his first bowl in a test match at IST, sending down a maiden to Lai wood, who went out next over in attempting to hit Grimmett. HOBBS OUT

Robins, driving McCabe for four, made England’s total 203 after 213 minutes. He batted with remarkable freedom for a player making his first appearance in a test match again- 1 Australia, aud helped Hobbs to improve the English position. Meanwhile the veteran was steadily advancing. Then McCabe had the distinction of dismissing Hobbs, who cut a ball hard and straight to the second slip. He had batted for 223 minutes, hit seven fours in a patient, skilful and courageous innings, holding his side together at critical moments. Robins continued to bat attractively. Tate was also vigorous, but played on Grimmett off the last ball of the day. At stumps the scores were: ENGLAND First Innings. HOLDS, c Richardson, b JVlcOabo .. SUTCLIFFE, c Hornibrook, b Fairfax HAMMOND, lbw, b Grimmett X WOOLLEY, st Oldfield, b Grimmett O HENDREN, b Grimmett 5 CHAPMAN’, c Ponsford. b Hornibrook TVJ LARWOOD, b Grimmett 18 ROBINS, not out 2S TATE, b Grimmett IS Extras .. .. .. .. JO Eight wickets for ..241 AUSTRALIA KEYED UP SYDNEY, Friday. There is intense Interest in the first cricket test match throughout Australia. The newspapers publish the opinions of experts, among whom the consensus of opinion is that, given good weather, Australia has got a very good chance of winning, but if the weather is bad the match will be drawn. Great things are expected of Grimmett, who is described as being a 50 per cent, better bowler than he was in the previous test matches, and also of Hornibrook, Bradman, and McCabe. The broadcasting stations in Sydney aud Melbourne will give details of the match each night until stumps are drawn. GRIMMETT UNPLAYABLE Reed. 11.5 a.m. LONDON, Friday. The “Central News” says in the spell in which Grimmett got wickets he was absolutely uoplayable.