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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 19, 23 January 1902, Page 3

CRICKET.

THE THIRD TEST MATCH. PR PRESS ASSOCIATION. Receired 22,7.12 p.m. Adelaide, January 22. Last night a light rain fell for a couple of hour?, but the high wind afterwards completely dried the wicket, which is .still good at one end, while the damaged place at the other is cot any wore*. The weather is fresh, and the aitandanc* about 6000. Trumble and McLeod resumed bowling, The latter in his first over, without addition to the score, bowled Lilley. 1 Jones made eleven quickly, md at 218 gave Trumble a warm return, \ which he held. Gunn was missed by Hill at mid-off when he had f cored one, and was given out " leg before " at 228. 1 Blythe was shaping nicely when 1 Quaife was out "leg befa*." The aonewaller batted for two and threequarter hours, and his innings was ' chair ele-s. ' Enqiasd. Second Inniags. 1 Mackren, b Trumble .. ~ 44 1 Hay ward, not out .. .. 47 1 Tyldesley, run out .. .. 25 Qaaife, lbw, b Trumble .. ~ 44 Jessop, b Trumble .. .. 16 1 Braund, b Howell .. .. 17 Lilley, b McLeod.. .. .. 21 Jones, c and b Trumble .. 11 Gunn, lbw, b Trumble .. .. 5 Blythe, not out 10 ' Barnee(absent) .. .. .. Extras .. .. .. 7 ' Total .. .. .. 247 1 fowling analysis: Tnumble t-wksi wickets "for 74, Howell one for 64, 1 McLeod one for 31, Noble one for 62, ' Armstrong none for nine. ' Gunn, bowling to the bid end, and 1 Braund opened to Trumper and Doff. ' Doff got a 4 to leg in Gunn's first ' Over, but in the third hit his wicket. 1 Trumper and Hill again gave a dash- ' ing exhibition, adding 45 in half ao ' hour. When 19, Bill should have ' been stumped- off Braund. At 50 ' Gunn thoroughly beat Trumper. . Gregory went in, and Hill in one over drove Gunn fcr a 4 and a 5, the latter being all run. At 79 Blythe, ' despite his hand troubling him, relieved Braund, whose eleven overs had cost 45 runs. Tbe change steadied the 1 raty. of scofiDg. When Gregory had j soottil 22, Maclaren appeared to make J a brilliant one handed catch at cover ( slip off Gunn, throwing up his h»nd in , the same set, but Crockett gave "not out," thinking tbe toll touched the ' ground. In Gunn's next over, Braund . iff the slips accepted a smart catch off Gregory, who had been batting forty miijutea. Three wickets for 98. The hundred went up for ninety- 1 five minutes'play. At tea Hill was 48 and Darling 3. ' Becefred 22,10.63 p.m. (Delayed in transmission through I' interruption of Australian land lines) ( , Adelaide, January 22. 1 When play was resumed the spring 1 was slow. Darling was stonewalli g, ' and took forty minutes to reach 10. Hill moved ahead steadily. At 138 ' Hayward relieved Gunn, who had 1 taken three wickets for 69. Off the < sew bowler Darling got his first 4, by a fine drive. Each batsman got Hay- | ward for a quartet, Hill's strokine f taking him into tbe nineties. At 180 j ,Jessop replaced Hayward, and in his - third over bowled Hill's teg stump « when the latter wanted only three to i complete his century. For the fourth I time this season ha got into the nine- t tie*. The only chance he gave during | his two hours and fifty minutes' play < was one of stumping. He hit one 5, and seven 4's, and his innings was a great effort. I Darling.was phying a splendid and < steady innings. The English fielding! was brilliant in the extreme, especially I that of Jessop and Jones. < Australians—Second Innings. i Trumper, b Gunn .. .. 25 Duff, hit wicket, b Gunn.. .. 4 Hill, b Jessop .. ..97 Gregory, c Braund, b Gunn .. 23 Darling, not out .. .. .. 40 Trumble, not out. 4 Extras .. .. .. 8 To'al for four w : ckets .. 201 _ WiXGixrr, Jir.uary 16. The representative match, VVanga»ui v. Manawatu, was to-<l»y. Wanpanui in the : r firs': innings compiled 73. Manawatu replied wi'h 78. Waiieanui in their second innings scored 95. Manawntu wanting 90 to win lost five wickets for 59, wl-en stumps were drawn. The Taranaki Association h*s Accepted the dat< s arranged for the match, Wanganui v. Taranaki, on *he sth and 6th of February, at Hawera. The New Plymo'iM; W«nd«rer<i piay Stratford to-day »t IngW' c< d.