AUSTRALIA DEFEATED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 104, 31 May 1909, Page 3

AUSTRALIA DEFEATED.

THE FIRST TEST MATCH. • AUSTRALIA v. ENGLAND. I'OOH SCORING. A DIFFICULT WICKET. SPLENDID 150WL1XU. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright). Loudon, May 28. The weather yesterday was sunny and the wicket soft for the* mat,ch between tngland and Australia, The visitors inaue 74 in their lirst innings, England replying with 124. A feature ot We play was the bowling on each side. AUSTUALIA —First Innings. Cotter, c Hirst, b Blytiie .. .." 2 liardsley, e MacLivreu, b Hirst .. % Truuiper, c Hirst, b lily the .. lu Armstrong, b Hirst -4 Noble, C Jessop, b Blythe .-. .• 15 | (iregury, c Rhodes, b Blythe .. u Kansiord, b Hirst 1 .Macartney, c MacLaren, b Blythe 10 Carter, 1.b.w., b Hirst .. .. 0 O'Connor, 1.u.w., b Blytlw .. .. 8 Whitty, not out U Sundries ■• 2 74 Bowling analysis.—Hirst four wickets for 28, Biythe, six for 44. iruaiper was caught by Hirst oil Blythe tor 10. He sent up an easy catch at mid-oil in tne thira over. After Trumper was dismissed, Xoole joined Armstrong. The latter jumping out to two successive balls from Blytiie, drove each for four. On. the batsmen reaching 24, Hirst with N a good delivery removed his leg stump. The fourth wicket tell for 40. Gregory made a short stay. He touched one of Blythe's off breaks to Rhodes at point. Khoaes, running backward, took an easy catch. The partnership added' a single bye. Hansford and Noble carried the score to 62, of which Noble made «. Ransford contributed a single, and then Hirst clean bowled him. The bowling was superb. Hirst was at his very best, thdttgn tie wicket was undoubtedly difficult. Six wickets were down for 52. Macartney was the next man in. When Noble was 15 lie attempted to hit Blytiie, and was easily caught at point by Jessop. The scoring board at this stage showed seven wickets for 58. The retiring batsman was an hour at the wickets and made a strong defence. The first hour's play yielded 31 runs. Carter retired leg beware to Hirst without scoring—Eight for 59. Macartney had 7 to his credit. When ■his score was four he was missed by Hirst at mid-off. O'Connor partnered and hit a good four to Bquare leg off Blythe. Four runs later he got leg before to Blythe—nine for 71. Whitty was the last man. Macartney added 3 before being smartly caught in the slips.

ENGLAND.—Fiist Innings. MaeLaren, b Macartney .... 5 Hobbs, 1.b.w., b Macartney .. .. " . Tyldesley, b O'Connor .. .• 24 ' Fry, b Macartney '.. .. •■ j| , dones, e Carter, b Armstrong .. 28 Jessop, b Armstrong 22 Hirst, 1.b.w., b Armstrong .. \ .. « , Rhodes, not Out •• •• ••■ «> , Idllcy, c Kansiord, b Armstrong .. 0 Thompson, run out B Blythe, c Macartney, b Armstrong 1 Sundries .. .... •• •• ° 121 ;

Bowling analysis: Armstrong five wickets for 27, Macartney three*, for 21, O'Connor onef for 2b, A'otae 0 tor 2, Whitty 0 for 43. AlacLaren and'Hobbs opened for England to the bowling of Whitty and Macartney. The start was disastrous. Before a run was made Hobbs got leg in front to the first ball of Macartney's second over. , Tyldlcsley came to the assistance ot MaeLaren,' who, when at 5, in attempting to drive, played Macartney on. Two for 13. . The third wicket fill for tne same total, Macartney displacing Fry's middle stump with his first ball. The score at the luncheon adjourn\ment was three for 17, Tyldlesley being 10 and Jones i. Play was resumed in lovely weataei, and before 10,000 spectators. Tyldesley, batting well, increased the score to 19; but Jones was in trouble occasionally, . A change of bowling was tried, O Connor and Armstrong displacing Whttty "and Macartney. Off O'Connor's first over Jones hit two brilliant fours to square leg. After hitting up 28 Jones, in Armstrong's second over, was snapped up by Carter behind the wicket. The partnership lasted 55 minutes. The fourth wicket fell at «1, and the 6fth left the total unaltered, Tyldesley ending an excellent innings by playing O'Connor on to his wicket. Hirst and Jessop became partnered. Jessop, when 8, gave a chance to Macartney off Armstrong. He signalised his escape by hitting 9 off one over of O'Connor, forcing the game, he put ii on the score in 20 minutes, whilst Hirst made 11. Then Jessop, in trying to sweep Armstrong to leg, lost Ins wrcket, and the sixth wicket fell for 90. Rhodes joined Hirst, and the century appeared at the end of 125 minutes Pl Hi'rst, after being at the wicket an liour for 15, put his leg before one from •Armstrong, the seventh wicket fallragat Lilley was the next newcomer, and was content without scoring. He nit a skyer from Armstrong, Ransford at long-off taking an easy catch. Eight °Rhodes and Thompson carried the total to 116, Thompson then losing Ins wicket at G, Macartney, with a fine return, throwing it uown from leg. Wvtne was the last man. When he, had scored a single he was caught easily bv Macartney at mid-off, off Armstrong. . "The innings lasted 100 minutes. Armstrong, with his fine bowling, kept perfect length with sufficient break. Received May 30, 4.30 p.m. London, May 2«. The lustralians in their second innings made 151. Scores :- AL'STRALIA.-Second Innings. Noble, c Jones, b Blytlie .. ■• 1} Macartnev, Ib.w., b biythe ■■ » ißansford, b Blytiie, . '.. ; - *;' Gregory, c Thompson, b Wythe ■ • •••» Trimiper, e Rhodes, b Hirst •• ' Bardslev, c Thompson, b Blytlie . • . > Armstrong, c Jessop, b Blytlie .. u Carter, c Hobbs, b Hirst .. •• ' Cotter, c Tyldesley, b Hirst •■ l-> O'Connor, c Lilley, b Hirst .. .. « Whitty, not out '•' Sundries B

■~* : 131 ' Bowling analysis: Hirst five wickets for 58, Blythe five for 58, Thompson 0 lor 19, Rhodes 0 fot 8. Noble took Macartney with linn to open tlie second innings, Blythe and Hirst conducting the attack. With the score at 4 vand 1 to nu credit Macartney retired leg before to V'lwMe had contributed 11 when he was tlUmtesed shv a wonderful catch bv .i -■•■ with his left hand low down at t' -.-leg, oft Blythe. Two for 18. Hansford and' Gregory gave a good display of totting. The first change of /howling was made at 31, Thompson (lis..being Blythe. 4 Play was stopped for the day »t ten minutes past 0, owing to duskiness. England in the second innings had no ■ "vickets down for 105. :■•*>.- ::S /■;■ •• ■• o ... - Sundries .. n

Total for no wickets .. •■ !'•■> Bowling! Macartney 0 for 35, Amistrong 0 for 37, Whitty 0 for 18, O Connor 0 for 17. . ... • After stumps were drawn lasl.mgnt Vain foil for two hours. The coming opened cloudv and \yitn the wicket wet, but drying nicely. The attendance was good. The not out men opened uxeellcntly, hatting steadily. Twenty-six runs were added in the first half hour, and then Gregory was fairly caught by Thompson off a skyer the field man running from mid-on to shortleg. Gregory gave a Brst-rate exhibition lasting 73 minutes. Three wickets for 07. . , Jumper only made a single wnen he •was sharply caught at short-leg. He . bad given Hirst a previous chance. Four for 09. ' ' Romford was bowled off his pads a i tew minutes later. He wa's at the. vrfekeU 105 minutes, and played excellent cricket, but was sometimes in * .trouble. Five for 103. '", Armstrong was caught at forward *iy&vM; off the first ball. Six for 103. ||||&sr'Wa».cSught at long-leg. Seven

at long-un on the pavilion rails. Xino | for 12.">. O'Connor nil vigorously hut Lilley, hack-standing, caught lii'ui oil Hirst. Before lunch, llobbs anil Fry roinmineed England's second innings. Fry gave n chance, when lie had scored I!, to O'Connor at mid-on oil Macartney. iHobbs played splendid cricket. (In resuming, both batsmen piled ii'i the rugs, [lobbs playing, superbly. r 'ry made the winning liit, a fourcr'to lei, amidst great enthusiasm. Hobbs' halt century occupied 85 minutes. He hit nine tourers, and received a great ovation.